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:icondragonite1:
I have been scrolling through your various big cat pieces and I must say that you have an excellent knowledge of big cat anatomy and fur direction, even up to minute details on the paws (which I do envy you for). Even your simpler sketches follow the anatomy almost perfectly and you do go for some very original tricky poses which highlights your knowledge. Your shading can appear to be minimal on some of your cartoon pictures (i.e. when you are not drawing realism); however perhaps the pastel look is what you are aiming for and to be honest it does fit quite well. Within the cartoon area, your technique seems to vary widely between simple colouring, to quite detailed fur suggestions which bring out more of the play of light and dark and the background they are operating in, and so narrowing down which is your preferred style can be tricky. Overall, you're a fantastic big cat artist.

Vision - 5 star - you have tha ability to see cat anatomy in any pose you do

Originality - 4 star - perhaps it would be nice to see you draw species and backgrounds outside of your comfort zone

Technique - 4 star - some colouring is fantastic, other is simpler

Impact - 4.5 star - overall you knowledge of the cat order is superb. The poses and emotions you put across are well received
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:iconakeli:
Hey, thank you for your comments and compliments!

"Originality - 4 star - perhaps it would be nice to see you draw species and backgrounds outside of your comfort zone"

- Awesome, since you're going to be in for a treat. :D The guardians comic has Monkeys, Ox, Snow Leopards, Wolves and Birds in the first part alone ^_^ If you check my scraps too you can see some drawings of horses, macaws, ect. ^^ I agree that I need to do more varied types of animals :hug:

"Technique - 4 star - some colouring is fantastic, other is simpler"

Could you help me by pointing out which types you think are "good" colouring and which types you think are "simpler"? :)

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:iconakeli:
Er...maybe I should rephrase that. Do you consider the comic shading in with the "simple" stuff? Even though it has shadows?

I couldn't really put fur on all of the comic pages because that would just take forever...

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:icondragonite1:
For example:
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Both have similar night scenes, whilst the more detailed one picks up the fur but also the darker lighting conditions i.e. it assimilates more with the background than the simpler one.

But I can appreciate that drawing highly detailed pictures for every page of the comic would take a long time.

Looking forward to seeing the other species :)

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:iconakeli:
I notice you picked one with no shadows and then one with tons of detail (it probably took about 6 hours or more just to do the fur on those) - Do you think any have a good balance between the two? :)

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As a man is, so he sees.
As the eye is formed,
such are its powers
- William Blake
:icondragonite1:
Hmm, looking purely at the interaction with the level and source of light in the background (and therefore the resultant shading), these two (albeit one was a speedpaint) have good shadowing/lighting effects and pick up a variety of colours that, whilst different, compliment each other:
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:)

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:iconakeli:
Thanks, that helps a lot! :D

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As a man is, so he sees.
As the eye is formed,
such are its powers
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:icondragonite1:
Glad I could help :D you're going to be a great success

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