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Ryuukei8569 — Fall Kitties
Published: 2011-04-26 23:32:24 +0000 UTC; Views: 983; Favourites: 22; Downloads: 40
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Well this is my serious attempt at drawing scenery, as well as a try at the anthro challenge. Unfortunately It didnt turn out anywhere near as well as i had hoped, the original picture would have been twice this size, and I ended up overwhelming myself with too much at once, so I had to cut the picture in half and concentrate as best as I could on the one side, unfortunately time is rather short. Both the characters here are male characters and they are brothersRelated content
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Of course, anthro kitties are adorable.
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you have a good attempt at doing amospheric perspective here. There is a great foreground, mid ground and background going on........ though, I think that the big dark tree in the foreground should be in FRONT of the brothers. It looks like the brother on the left is walking right on the tree (and it doesn't look right).
After doing that, you can add some light shadows to the trees. meaning, where is the tree shadow on the ground? And make sure that its the same as the shadows on the brothers, or else it looks like you have a bunch of different light sources.
(the tree in the middle with the green leaves should probably be desaturated.... it's TOO green with everything else in the environment, and it doesn't look like it's some "special" tree that mean anything to the brothers)
Otherwise, good going for a start!
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well Shading was something I was going to add, but time ran out. This picture was intended for a contest and time ran short, because I attempted to make the picture too large, and as a result, got overwhelmed,
Everyone seems to have a more positive opinion of this picture than i do though.
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I forgot that it was part of a contest.
Well, these suggestions were made in case you wanted to go back and fix it to make it look better for yourself
I like seeing how these cats have long hair, even though they're male. you don't see that often
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Its probably not something I will change with this picture, But I will definitely take it into consideration with all future pictures.
What you dont also see very often is the fact that I dont add breasts to my female characters either. At least with the particular type of anthro shown here. As a result, people have a difficult time telling what gender my characters are. What is interesting about it though, is that the people i work with, in the Army, when they see my characters, they generally assume its a female, but people in the furry fandom here on DA, usually guess male.
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Well, as far as the background goes, maybe add some more detail.
And the how picture is all kinda earth tones, including the cat people, which makes them blend in a bit. I think you need something to bring them out more.
Also, if your trying to go for a more human anatomy, they're legs are slight too short and they're arms are a bit too long.
Overall though, I think you did a nice job, don't be too hard on yourself!
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Well, their legs are short bacause they dont have a complete human shape. Their shape is partially catlike. Plus I am only using natural fur and hair colors, colors that occur naturally in humans or cats. No blues, greens or purples.
This picture was intended for a contest, so there was a time limit on the submission, and I initially tried to do too much, which ended up with a rushed completion, plus my inexperience in dealing with scenery didnt help. I missed a lot of details that I wanted to add in, like the tree bark.
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I'm not saying change their color, exactly.
You could darken the background or something, to make them pop more.
I did say "if your trying to go for a more human anatomy".
Not trying to be rude, but why ask for critiques if you're just going to say you didn't have enough time to do well?
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I didnt have enough time for this particular piece, but I mainly take critiques into consideration when I make future drawings
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Scenery and backgrounds can be awfully tricky, and our drawings never turn out quite like we envision in our heads, unfortunately. But that's alright! Getting it out is the important thing, and you did just that- and even though you felt overwhelmed, you went through with it anyway. For a background, it's not horrible, but it's clear that there can be improvements- such as the trees. The trunks aren't bad, but they could use more texture, since bark is rough, and not all trees are that seemingly smooth. The tops of the trees don't have any texture either, and although from afar the leaves of a tree all look like one large unit, you could still have individual leaves hanging down, or even a few leaves falling off the trees. I also can't tell if the yellowish textured part in back of the characters is a grassy hill, or meant to be shrubbery. From the height, it looks like a large hill, but the trees roots don't splay across it, such as this: [link] . If it's meant to be shrubbery, I think the bulk of it should be split up into smaller bushes and greenery. I also think the amount of space at the top is a rather large one that could've been cropped out to focus on the characters more.
As for the anthro characters, I'm not much of a personal fan myself, so I can't critique you there, because that wouldn't be fair to you. But I will say this- the arms on them look a little stiff to me personally.
I really hope this comment helps you- it's all in my opinion personally, and you can either take it or ignore it. XD;
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Actually its supposed to be the ground covered in fallen leaves, not any kind of shrubbery. But as I had said in the author comments, I simply tried to do more than I can manage at once, and got overwhelmed by it. I know there are a lot of things I can improve on, but this is one of my first scenery pictures in a very long time. So from now on until I get better, I will try to do simpler stuff.
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OOOh your backgrounds are really good ^^ *thumbs up*
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Eh, i could have done a lot better had I not tried to bite off more than I can chew.
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he heh, well you did great my friend. I hope to see more works form ya ^^
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i am Trying to keep a pretty steady pace of 4 submissions per week. I actually have some 15 pictures in reserve, but submitting them all at once reduces the amount of views for each one, plus it will overwhelm the groups. The only thing that blocks submissions now tends to be internet problems
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