The fur is really excellent

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Advanced Critique encouraged?
You are on Deviantart.


Ok, here´s some Advanced Critique.. but just because you have too much talent to listen too some half assed critique.
There are some small mistakes that no one will ever notice in ten thousand years but they all have influence on the perception of your picture.


- I can´t think of an animal that has a back like this, it looks unnatural but ok. The tail position seems a bit funky but that isn´t too unusual. The heads is a bit big for the body and the legs are very thin and the ankles are very bulky.
All this is ok and these are not important details, but put together they could maybe irritate you if you stare too long at it.
You´ll get rid of this problem when you continue to look at animals. or if you continue to draw.


- This is a more important issue:
You´ve got repeating shapes in your figure.
The right forelegs paw and the right hindlegs paw are very similair. Same for the left foreleg paw and the left hindlegs.
The design of the paws isn´t a problem, it´s more that you drew them in the same position. It´s unnatural and will block the dynamic of your figure.
Maybe this guy describes it better:
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(the first five posts of this blog are very readable)



-Get rid of the dust on the paper and on your scanner. There are little dirtspots on your paper, you could erase them digitally. They are ok near the legs but they don´t belong around the animal.
(you could clean up by using a threshold mask, like described here:
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or by using the filters cleverly like here..
[link])

-The bar you put in photoshop is nice but I can see where it ends. It isn´t obvious but it´s irritating (I think your monitor could be a bit dark.. or mine is a bit too bright )

-Are you aware what you did with the bar there?
Did you know that it would stop the figure from floating around on a sheet of paper but hold it and give it a ground and a basic composition? That bar is important. The picture would loose so much without it.


Please don´t take every point I said too serious, I tried to give the best critique I could but my english is bad (not native) and my knowledge is rather poor.

I don't think the fur looks too bad, actually. It's much better than you give yourself credit for.

I'd say the back legs look a little skinny, but I'm unfamiliar with the manga, so it might just be the style.

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I like the details and the shading.
Good job

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