Jhoto Seasons

[Ho-oh Lover]

I did this piece during school over the last 3 days. I'm really proud of how well it turned out but it did loose some quality when it got scanned in T-T ~*~Jhoto Seasons~*~

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[flygonrulz]

Whoa. That's good. I mean extremly good! Nice pencil work, colouring and what not-it looks really profesional!

 

[blazikenBAM]

wow
very nice!!
the concept is pretty cool, too. my only peice of crit: raikou looks a bit stiff, but that doesn't really detract from the overall quality.

it's just simply amazing

 

[aragornbird]

I think it’s good too, but I have a higher standard of art and therefore, feel compelled to comment on a few things.

Spring – The cherry blossoms surrounding Ho-oh are nice and delicate. Ho-oh itself is okay, even though it’s beak is too short and the sense of lighting seems off. If the sun was shining from behind it, the area around its wings would be much darker for the most part. And in contrast to the darker reds and greens, there should be a warm golden glow surrounding Ho-oh’s contour as the sun reflects off of its back.

Summer – Entei’s fur effect really comes through. But the background is…meh. I see you put a faint touch of yellow to mix with the blue sky. That effect does more harm than good since the lines seem hastily drawn and don’t mesh well with the rest of the sky. Keep the sky a plain blue, that’s what works the best. The trees…they look more like green cushions than actual treetops. Spend more time on them and use a more scribbly line. Trees aren’t smooth and don’t look like they’re made of plastic, they’re big masses of leaves and you can more effectively convey that if you go back in and add some rougher lines in there.

Fall – I think out of all your legendaries, Raikou came out the best. I really enjoy the yellow tones on its purple cloud. The trees look really nice as well. It’s the ground that’s the problem. It looks like the leaves that are supposed to be on the ground are simply red, brown, and yellow dots painted randomly all over the place. This is another issue of spending more time to achieve a more convincing effect. First off all, if they were dead leaves, their colors wouldn’t be so bright. Try using more orange and pale brown tones to get a more “autumny” effect.

Winter – Ick, Suicune needs the most work out of all of them. It looks too skinny – like its starving or something. You should make its back a lot bigger and bulkier. The perspective of the cliff is rather flawed in terms of the overall composition. Make the cliff lean more to the right since that's where Suicune is facing. Introduce more blues and purples into the snow...it'll give it more of a wintery nightime feel.
Lovely aurora btw.

So yeah, overall, it's a great drawing...but pay more attention to the details and spend more time on it and it'll be even better.

 

[Ho-oh Lover]

I think it’s good too, but I have a higher standard of art and therefore, feel compelled to comment on a few things.

Spring – The cherry blossoms surrounding Ho-oh are nice and delicate. Ho-oh itself is okay, even though it’s beak is too short and the sense of lighting seems off. If the sun was shining from behind it, the area around its wings would be much darker for the most part. And in contrast to the darker reds and greens, there should be a warm golden glow surrounding Ho-oh’s contour as the sun reflects off of its back.

Summer – Entei’s fur effect really comes through. But the background is…meh. I see you put a faint touch of yellow to mix with the blue sky. That effect does more harm than good since the lines seem hastily drawn and don’t mesh well with the rest of the sky. Keep the sky a plain blue, that’s what works the best. The trees…they look more like green cushions than actual treetops. Spend more time on them and use a more scribbly line. Trees aren’t smooth and don’t look like they’re made of plastic, they’re big masses of leaves and you can more effectively convey that if you go back in and add some rougher lines in there.

Fall – I think out of all your legendaries, Raikou came out the best. I really enjoy the yellow tones on its purple cloud. The trees look really nice as well. It’s the ground that’s the problem. It looks like the leaves that are supposed to be on the ground are simply red, brown, and yellow dots painted randomly all over the place. This is another issue of spending more time to achieve a more convincing effect. First off all, if they were dead leaves, their colors wouldn’t be so bright. Try using more orange and pale brown tones to get a more “autumny” effect.

Winter – Ick, Suicune needs the most work out of all of them. It looks too skinny – like its starving or something. You should make its back a lot bigger and bulkier. The perspective of the cliff is rather flawed in terms of the overall composition. Make the cliff lean more to the right since that's where Suicune is facing. Introduce more blues and purples into the snow...it'll give it more of a wintery nightime feel.
Lovely aurora btw.

So yeah, overall, it's a great drawing...but pay more attention to the details and spend more time on it and it'll be even better.

Thanks for the praise people, and thank you aragornbird for pointing out theses flaws, I guess I was too excited to show this piece to people that I rushed it a bit, but now I know were to go back and to fix. I'll add more detail on the leaves on Fall, and make the trees less smooth and fix the cliff a bit, but I don't think I'm confident enough in my abilities to add purple and blue into the snow with out making it look too fake and mulit-coloured.

Here is another piece I did during school before I did the Jhoto Seasons. Red Dragon yes I know... the mountain looks like a retarted christmas tree, never really drawn a moutain with colour pencils so it was an expeirment, same with the clouds.

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