Oddish's Thread

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The Cyndaquil's problem is it looks pretty bland.

The way you shaded is fine to me, but the fire should be brightening the area around it, seeing as how fire is a very important light source.

The Cyndaquil's fire looks really boring.
Brighten it up a bit, give it some more life.
The skin/fur could use a little more contrast to bring out the shading.

The Oddish looks like you took two styles and stuck them together.
The leaves have a coloured outline, while the body seems to just have one solid, dark blue shade the entire way around. And the leaves should have some sort of impact on the shading of the head/body.

Ahh, okay. Yeah, when shading the cyndaquil, I considered the fire as a light source, but I wasn't really sure what color to place against that kind of dark blue skin on him. I guess I could experiment with some colors to see what'll work, unless you have a suggestion.

The fire's "liveliness" and the contrast between the shades is a problem I don't really know how to fix. I spent a really long time selecting the colors, and I'm not sure how to pick good ones. I suppose to make it livelier I should just make all the shades a bit brighter? I'll fix the contrast between shades.

When making the oddish, I figured that the leaves shouldn't really constitute a full black outline since they are flimsy and don't really hold form well. As for the outline around the oddish, it is pure black. And what kind of impact should the leaves have on the shading of the body? Would it affect the light source at all?

Innnnnn addition, I have another one:



I made this before I saw your crits, though.

I think I was more true to cyndaquil's style this time, having the black outline around everything except the fire. His left (our right) leg reallllly bothers me, but I don't know how to fix it. The tail and the fire itself could use some work, too...At this point, an edit of how it's done would be really helpful, to anyone out there.