Woo, thats some witch you have there, glad you got to finish this I enjoyed watching the process

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Honestly I think the work is very well done. The shading on the wings has a unique look to it and thats what helps make her look good. I like the glow upon the orb for it gives off that mystic look for her. The background is very well done for it gives off a certain tone to the picture and thats a good thing. Only thing i can say is her nose looks a little fat, maybe just make it somewhat skinnier would help her out. Besides that the whole pik looks entirely good. really well done on this picture.

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Thanks. I think it might have been shadeing on her nose that was off enough to make her nose look fatter than it is.

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i really like this, can you do like close ups of the detailed work like the face and the necklace or maybe the gem on her shirt.

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Alright babe, I didn't get around to it last night 'cause I was with Pineapple [[don't start lol]] but here we go.

You have come such an amazing way in the last few years...Hell, the last few months. It's always a treat to watch how your art grows and expands. I absolutely love this, I love the style; I could honestly picture this as a comic or cartoon, there's just something about it. Your girls are getting curvier, and that chubby impish face...very sultry. One of the things I've always adored about your art, and you seem to be playing with more, is that your unafraid to use black in your shadowing, which just gives this lovely witch a more mysterious charm. I love your smooth shading, but it's nice to see the more dramatic, almost choppy feel in her wings and the tattered ends of the skirt. She truely is an interesting character.

Now, I've got to nitpick a few things like ya asked. What always bothers the Hell outta me about winged characters, is that the hair wouldn't fall where the wings attach to the shoulder blades; it'd fall around, behind, but not there. Speaking of shoulders, looks like you missed colouring a spot above -her- right one...wing maybe? Her arm is a bit too thick considering how tiny she is, and her hand...done well, but too much is showing; it makes the staff look two-diminsional. and the curvature is wrong - with the angle of the wrist, the pinky would look the longest, with the other fingers tapering back.

Love it though, Kittykat =] She's a beaut <3

Saw your critique thread, and since I have much to say about this piece I thought I'd give a full blown critique for once.

Your composition and negative shapes work pretty well, only things bothering me are the slightly cramped feel with the orb at the top, maybe a little more space up would fix that. And then there is the shape of the hem of the skirt, especially the straight line the skirt forms at the bottom seems to bother the overall composition.

The drawing is okay, it's obvious you don't know any of the muscles actually making the forms, but you're trying to fake it as well as you can. Proportions overall work well, and the forms have a three dimensional feel. The face seems to be the best part of the overall drawing, however it's also the part that's painted like it had no debth. Makes it seem like you have a lot at experience drawing faces but not much at rendering them.

Your digital painting is what struck me immediately as the weakest part of the whole, I'd really just suggest finding some basic brush tutorials and starting over. But if nothing else at least delete that soft brush you've been using and make a new hard-edged one. Then if you want soft edges blend them by hand, with appropriate color graduations. I think there were some pretty good starting tips at conceptarts photoshop forum.

Overall color scheme is nice. But you definately need to study how lightning affects color more. Painting from life, or even photos would help for this immensely.

Lightning. Decide where you're light is coming from before starting to paint. If the green orb is emitting light, make that light visibly green. The highest green highlights would be on her hair in that case. Speaking of the hair it's lighted all over, there's no feeling of it's shape. Highlights should not be the same value all over the image. Think which material is the most reflective, and at the best angle to your light source, that's where you need your brightest highlights. Arrange your lightsources so that the brightest spots support your composition. If your lightsource is at right like it seems to be in most places, the left ear and the left arm would be in much more shadow then now. The left side of the face would be in shadow, and there would be a cast shadow with a lot harder edges at the right side of the face. The bottom part of the stomach would be in shadow, because the stomach is round. And the gaping wound in the middle of her stomach should be definately brightened. Usually also the line of the abs does not continue beoyond the bellybutton, as there is always a layer of fat there for every women with any fat on their body. If you want to keep your lineart there I'd suggest fixing it so you have the bellybutton drawn, and then a break in the line and then a small line to indicate the abs.

I probably forgot something or the other, but that's the first impression. This is way I don't usually bother to critique, it takes bloody ages.

I know this piece has some serious flaws. And everything you've pointed out rings true. I'm trying more varried typed of painting in my next piece and hopefully it'll turn out better. This wasn't ment to be a finish piece. just a practice tablet sketc that got out of hand. I'm going to save this critique to my computer so I can go back over for the next drawing and see if it doesn't help me any. Thanks though, for pointing out what you noticed. I'm sure theres dozens more flaws, but even just the few you pointed out will help me better what I have already worked with.

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>w< It's been a while since I left some critique, so I feel it's long overdue. I was waiting until I had enough time so that I could leave you a lovely message letting you know you did an amazing job on this one, as well as constructive criticism. x3 So, let's see what we can dish up then, hey? ^^

When I saw this one appear in my inbox, my mind went racing back to your previous piece, the WIP. Normally, I'd think "well hey, it'll look just like the WIP only better, right," get a smile out of it, and leave a fair comment associated with it. I see this one, and it's like "o.o Ohholysh*tlookathisone!!!" ...Aaaand then I knew it was something I had to save time and energy to give a proper response to. Simply put, it's quite easily the best picture you've done, since your Ire picture you did a couple of months ago. This one is just -incredible-, from the lineart itself right on down to the shading techniques you used to give her face life. You really out-did yourself this time, Kat. As usual, what I like most about it is that smooth, silky and flowing look that you give to your characters' clothes. Her robes have that very elegant look to them, and the warm and flowing shading that goes with it makes for a glossy finish that brought me back to it again and again. o.o I can't ever say this enough: it looks -great-. I love her round face, and her big, looming eyes that bring a blush to your face--she looks like quite the temptress~... ^^ That's one sorceress I think we would all fall for~...!

Okeedokie--time for that lovely lil' thing called critique. x3 Saw it up there earlier, and I'm feeling generous enough to give some. Why? Because you're awesome like that, and I'm feeling like giving it. I'm too lazy to read what other people wrote, so here comes an honest opinion from my own heart, without the influence of another's opinion. You've done a great job improving your body anatomy, which is always a plus: since your earlier Ashura pics (and your ladies of Hell you posted about 2 1/2 years back), anatomy has seen a quantum leap, as well as your choice of colours and shading. As always, we've got some areas of improvement to work on, but I view that as a blessing--it brings annoying buggers like me back to bug you on what you should do next to improve, hopefully in a constructive and supportive way. x3 In this one's case, I'm looking at her hand that's holding her staff. Two small things I might suggest are, first of all reducing the size of her hand just a teensie bit--nothing wrong with how large it is, but I think to emphasize her feminine build that her hand be almost ridiculously small and skinny--you know what I mean? Like, your style really calls for an over-exaggeration of anatomy in areas, like her sides for example above her hips. With a smaller hand, it would give her a more dainty look, I'd think. And while you'd be at it, perhaps rotating her hand a bit more towards her body while you're at it wouldn't hurt a bit either--I understand you were going for a hand that was straight out, and that's fine. It just looked a bit questionable at first until I tried the pose myself--modeling my own body after her own (the thought of wearing her outfit I think would make anyone cringe and scream seeing me cross-dress though, so I passed on that) and adopting the same pose, and I really do think that, for a stronger, more dynamic pose, that the hand could have been rotated more towards the body. ...Like, what I mean is, as opposed to right now, where it's straight out, curl the tips of the fingers more towards the body; it'd be counter-clockwise from her perspective. Ayeee--guess I don't know how to put things like that into words. >w<;;

I suppose then, while we're at it, we could move on to her forearm too. ^^ Great job getting that curvature down on her forearm. Might I suggest her forearm being a teensie bit skinnier like her hand, and quite possibly a bit longer? I guess as a rule of thumb, one thing a friend of mine mentioned was: the forearm is roughly the same size as your foreleg (not sure if that's even the term, but it's the part above your foot and below your knee). My friend's a real anatomy freak--he critiques my stuff all the time in person and keeps telling me that all the time, and I saw it could be applied here, so... share the wealth~! ^^

You've always done such a great job with rips and tears, and just your fabric design in general are very gothic and smooth. o.o I couldn't ever get over how much I've loved the way you draw your silks for your gals. They always looked like quite the seductresses~. ^^ I guess that's a natural talent for you--drawing nicely shaped females for us to adore~! I'm digging the violet undertone at the base of her wings at the bottom. For some reason, I like that gradual transition, and the layered look to the wings. The rips and tears along the wings themselves look great too. I've always been a weirdo to think this, myself, but have you ever wondered where the people in the artwork get those tears and rips in their wings...? I guess I'm an odd one to think about it, but it was always a past time of mine. x3

...And of course, the faces you draw are drop-dead gorgeous. o.o I can't ever recall a singe drawing you've done where the face didn't look amazingly beautiful and incredibly detailed. I really took after your artwork after a friend of mine introduced me, and even tried to build upon my art style by sort of mimicking your own. How's that for a confession, huh. l3 Always did love your art, and faces and expressions were always magnifique. ;3 Wonderful job, Kat~! This is worth a fav any day. Hopefully sometime between now and artbook day you'll spin off quite a few more lovelies for us to look at (and maybe a commission or two~) before you consider leaving us forever and never coming back. x3 At least by that time I would have had my fill of your art before having to forcefully move onwards to other's artwork (that's never a fun thing. ;w; ). But we'll see. Maybe you'll stay here and keep with your artwork~! ^^ Commissions were never a bad thing, right~? And maybe sometime you could even open up your own website and get a bit of cash that way~! A few artists do that, and it'd be a good way to move on after a while. ;3 Y'know I'd get you some site traffic. Keep it up~!! Like the classic McDonald's saying goes, "I'm lovin' it!"

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