As always, you seem to capture a lot of details. I love that thing about it.

But when you give so much effort on detail and attempt on perspective - if it does not work - the whole thing looks jarry. May be you should have planned it a bit ahead. And then filled in the details.
The obvious thing is the foot(left) of the guy. It seems to be proportionately too small from ankle to sole. And overall - if you wanted a humanoid form, may be the leg length should have been wee bit longer?

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Yeah I completely agree with you. I had made the whole head and the torso, but couldn't come up with decent legs. That's why I made the cape longer and, did a crappy left leg... And got tired from trying to make the leg and the fire, so just threw up something to fill in.

I suppose this is something I'll have to work on. Planning and perspective before doing the actual drawing. Also, I'm really terrible at drawing hands and feet...

Do you know any online resources related to this?
Thanks for the review Vyoma.

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I am a newbie in terms of these things also. And I have not found any good resources on the net other than reference and stock photos. They form good guide. Other than that, actual books are good - but it all comes down to practice - practice, practice and practice.

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ha i'm here as well
nice rock , by the way.
and the sword's superb
seeya

Yes, I actually love the texture I got on the rock, even it being just a simple environment object.
The sword is quite simple, but well done anyway... and the reflections are so sleek

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I saw the link to your page in one of the various forum topics on astahost.com and so I thought I'd check it out. You seemed to be ok with critiques and such, so I thought perhaps I could offer a few things that I see. (Feel free to ignore them.)

With pencil drawings especially, sometimes your best technique is the "illusion" of a line. If you're trying to draw fairly realistically (at least with shading and light sources and stuff), then try to remember that not every edge has to have a solid line defining it. Like, for instance, I'm looking at your picture right now and I can see that every edge has a very strong line difining it's space. Try thinking less about the outline and more about the shading. On things such as the skull, you could even get away with no outline on some of the areas if you shaded it lightly and used an eraser to define the area. Does that make sense? So in effect, you're using your eraser instead of a pencil to create that defining point. I can see that on his cape you started to use highlight points (where the light would hit the most on the raised folds of the cape), but think about taking it a bit further. Try not shading the whole cape. Sometimes the element of contrast is useful. If you shade the "shadow areas" quite darkly, and leave the "highlight areas" almost bare of pencil marks, then it allows the viewers' eyes to create the form themselves. Another thing is that every form (if it's a 3d object) has some sort of shadow. Your character has a tiny bit of one on the ground, but not much. Shadows are another thing that really make the image pop off the page. I think your character is neat, and I think you've done a nice job. I hope that my thoughts provide a little insight on how you can make your character pop off the page a bit more. : ) Have a fantastic day.

Wow, thank you for such a huge analysis regarding this piece. To be most sincere, I understand what you say about the outlining. But believe me I can't help eliminating them! Ages ago, I used to draw line art only, because my needs were only to show up ideas visually. Also, I'm used to draw cartoons...
Next time, once I get a better notion of perspective on character drawing, your suggestions will be taken into consideration. Let's hope I get over the outlining addiction. Have a wonderful day as well! Thanks again leafbunk!

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Really cool! Nice work!

Thank you Vegvisir. As you probably noticed, I like your gallery.

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