good job danielle!!!!
love it

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the wings lok weird though and her legs aren't proportional but i stil like it ^_^

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<sub>it's a lovely piece, though the far side of her face looks odd. it may just be me but her lips seem too far up or her jaw is a little too large.

it's very well colored! (:</sub>

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It's called camera angle my friend. She drew the pic so that the fairy is looking at you at an odd angle (though that may or may not be what she intended).

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Very good picture! The only thing really that I can see wrong with it are the legs and feet, which, from her position in the pic, should probably extend out of the picture. The wings are a little odd, but that's not too bad, because faeries are magical creatures and can fly anyway! Trust me, I've seen weirder wings on a faerie...

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No, it's not bad. You gave her a crit about what you thought was wrong with it, and it'll probably help her become a better artist! So no harm done!

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This is definitely a major improvement from your previous works. I'll be honest, before I was a bit frustrated at your previous art's half-assitude, (for lack of a better and existent word), but I can definitely see the effort put into this one.

Excitement aside, it's time for Aunt Luukie's so-morbidly-overzealous-critique-she's-either-really-bored-or-compensating-for-something critique time! *Applause*

So let's start with the background~

-The overall atmosphere seems light-polluted. If you were going for an urban night sky, that's fine, but if you wanted a more majestic forest away from human civilization the sky would benefit from being darker and more saturated. I'd highly suggest looking through pictures of the night sky in rural areas- if anything, it's fun to look at because it's freaking gorgeous and makes me wish I lived out in the country frsrs. :C

-The tree is overall shaped awkwardly. While trees may be a familiar shape, I'd still suggest using a reference for it. The main thing that bothers me about the tree is the branch she's sitting on; the place where it connects to the trunk makes it look like it's a tree sprouting from the ground instead of the trunk. It juts out at too sharp of an angle at the bottom, and there isn't enough of a crevice where the branch meets the tree at the top of it (if that makes any sense- the area where her shin is).

-On the branch that she's sitting on, it looks pretty awkward to have three branches sprouting from the same general spot, especially if they're the same thickness and, if added together, very close to the same thickness as their parent branch. It's a good idea to keep in mind that branches get thinner as they move outward, especially when branching off of other branches.

-While it's probably technically possible on some trees, it looks pretty weird to have a lower branch be thinner than the one right above it. Along with outward, trees get thinner as they move upward as well.

-I like the effort put into the leaves; they're recognizable as such and not just a blob of green with shading. However, I think for future tree-painting it would make the leaves look much more believable to consider perspective and leaf sizes when painting.

Onto the figure~

-The first feature that drew my attention was the face- the eyes are very well done and the overall shading is pretty good. However, the chin is set too far to the right- it doesn't properly line up with the nose and lips, which makes her face look rather squished in.

-It's very hard to tell what angle her face is at- her eyes and chin are at 3/4ths, but her lips and nose are angled more towards a full view.

-The top of her head is really round, and it's slightly awkward- I don't know about you, but I can't think of anyone I know who doesn't have a slightly flattened crown instead of a perfect sphere shape.

-The hairline is very thick- most hairlines have more delicate and shorter hairs at the very edge of the line that are revealed when the hair is pulled back, and gives the impression of thinner hair right at the hairline. (Also, her sideburns appear to be completely missing, and is that hair coming out from right underneath her ear?)

-The ear is very small compared to the rest of the face- you have the top of the ear positioned correctly, but the bottom of the ear is actually more in line with the bottom of the nose.

-Her neck is shaped oddly; if her neck were really curved inwards that much, her head would be tilted downwards. (Seriously, try it.) It's good to keep in mind that the front of the neck is not always a severely concave shape- it often goes slightly convex, and appears to curve inward because of the tendons in the neck and not the neck itself. (Her neck is also very long- if her shoulders are hunched, then they will cover up a lot of her neck.)

-If that much of her collarbone and shoulder farthest from us were visible, her boobs would be, too. Don't tell me you're squeamish about painting boobs. e____e

-Her torso is very generalized; it's too rounded, especially in her back. Her shoulder blades seem to be missing. D:

-Her upper arm is pretty convex. While some parts of it are justifiably so (muscles in the arm and whatnot), the top of the upper arm (where it meets the shoulder) should be a tad more concave.

-Also, her upper arm doesn't seem to be attached to her lower arm very well- the bottom of the upper arm seems to be shaped with no consideration for how the lower arm is bending.

-I'm not sure how to describe what the lower arm should look like, but I'd suggest looking at your own arm in that position.

-The top of the shin is also too convex- the only time that it bulges on both sides like that is if you're looking at it from the front or back.

-The angle that the wings are at looks very odd- I don't really know of any insects that are able to hold their wings at that angle when not flying. I'd highly suggest looking at pictures of insects (like dragonflies and houseflies and whathaveyou) to get a better idea of how to draw fairy wings; just because they're an element of fantasy doesn't mean that their conception didn't come from nature.

Aaaaaand that's all I feel like addressing- it's getting late. If you have any questions about any part of my critique, I'd probably be able to answer within a paragraph or two. XD

Just curious, what's your method of picking shadow colours?

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