My Newest One, and right now the one that seems to fit just perfectly.
Oddly enough, I just changed her colors to black and green, which i always end up doin, but her main colors are there as you see.
I did this very carefully and took my time, makin' sure I got her to look as much as a kitty-kat as she was lol then I colored her with watercolored pencils and did the BG with my new acrylic paints I got for my birthday. Obviously I was just testing them, since I don't have much knowlege of them yet, cause it's a messy sky! lol but it's funny, the scanner made one side of the "sky" darker, which is what it was supposed to be like due to it bein' sunsetty lol
so the scanner actually did good this time 'round..
Either way. here she is, my special one. I can't wait to see the one is doin'. I'm giddy with excitement!
Let me know what you think!! I did this very differently!
=^.^= Very nice! I'd say you're improving in leaps and bounds; you got the kitty look much more thoroughly this time. I like the thicker legs and the shorter, more detailed face... and the fur looks so fluffy! -pets it-
Now for another critique--you ready? The paws have great detailing, but their overall shape and size isn't right. Big cats have big, rather rounded and soft-looking paws. Also, that much detail about what's going on under the skin looks just a bit funny, since you haven't really defined the musculature on the rest of her. Which leads to point number two: her structure is just a smidge wonky. The neck is a touch too short and about a quarter too thick, and the rectangular shape of the shouler/ribcage formation looks very unnatural. Try to think about bone structure while you're drawing--the lump just behind the neck is the shoulder and should line up with the upper part of the foreleg. The spine curves down from the neck into the back--it doesn't form quite such an abrupt angle. Also, tigers have a lot of loose skin and fur around the belly; even a very skinny one is not going to have that sucked-up stomach. Generally, it's a very shallow, hanging curve right from the chest to the back legs.
Back legs are the hardest. It's very easy just to draw the top bit rounded, the bottom bit long and straight, and be done with it, but then it doesn't look quite right. It helps to think of it as a human leg with funny proportions--after all, if you look at the bones, that's what it is. The top part is actually NOT circular--it is the thigh, knee, and calf, so its basic structure is actually an angle. The flesh and fur over it are what round it out. Then, the tiger's back-pointing "knee" is actually the human ankle... the lower leg is the foot, stretched out long... and the paw is the ball of the foot and the toes. Once you can spot that structure, it becomes MUCH easier to draw animals' limbs--and to anthropomorphize them, too!
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Now for another critique--you ready? The paws have great detailing, but their overall shape and size isn't right. Big cats have big, rather rounded and soft-looking paws. Also, that much detail about what's going on under the skin looks just a bit funny, since you haven't really defined the musculature on the rest of her. Which leads to point number two: her structure is just a smidge wonky. The neck is a touch too short and about a quarter too thick, and the rectangular shape of the shouler/ribcage formation looks very unnatural. Try to think about bone structure while you're drawing--the lump just behind the neck is the shoulder and should line up with the upper part of the foreleg. The spine curves down from the neck into the back--it doesn't form quite such an abrupt angle. Also, tigers have a lot of loose skin and fur around the belly; even a very skinny one is not going to have that sucked-up stomach. Generally, it's a very shallow, hanging curve right from the chest to the back legs.
Back legs are the hardest. It's very easy just to draw the top bit rounded, the bottom bit long and straight, and be done with it, but then it doesn't look quite right. It helps to think of it as a human leg with funny proportions--after all, if you look at the bones, that's what it is. The top part is actually NOT circular--it is the thigh, knee, and calf, so its basic structure is actually an angle. The flesh and fur over it are what round it out. Then, the tiger's back-pointing "knee" is actually the human ankle... the lower leg is the foot, stretched out long... and the paw is the ball of the foot and the toes. Once you can spot that structure, it becomes MUCH easier to draw animals' limbs--and to anthropomorphize them, too!
=^.^= Haven't talked to you in a bit; what's up?
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