Wee.. more pics.
Pretty with goregeous colouring and style as per usual!
Now onto those other little bits that I so love doing ^^
First Girl.
Generally she's nice and the background is really well done.. but I think you've done better than this before, namely with your model.
First her nose seems off center, especially with how you've shaded it. Maybe more to our left would help. It's not that bad and I think if you'd left the shading to a smaller point and not stretched it so far up between her eyes it wouldn't of been so noticeable.
Those hands really went to the horrors didn't they? I think it's mainly the thumbs. The one a her waist really shouldn't be visible and the one on her other hand sticks out at an odd angle while missing the fleshy bit you have between your thumb and index finger making it look extremelly disjointed. Also the hand near the bag is much too big, it throws off the proportions even when taking into acount of perspective.
Her shoulders are too broad with the one on our right the worse off. I don't think the angle here is helping you very much. I'm not sure what to change to fix it up. Sorry.
Other arm and the fact you've done your pink elbow and that you can see it makes it look twisted which I don't think is helping this limb. I'm trying to think how to fix this up as well and I think it's the proportions you use that are throwing it off. With how her arm is if this were a normal person the elbow would be much further down so the forarm could rest over the lap easier. I don't think this arm really is this bad.. it's just in relation to the other one it's off, .. Ah. I think I know something that would of helped. If you'd put the arm -behind- the bag as apposed to infront of it so she was leaning back onto it as apposed to to the side. It would of been a more natural pose especially with how the arm is positioned.. Of course the hand would have to be reversed but that hand went to the horrors previously as we said anyway.
Legs;
You like curving in when you should be curving out don't you? Well we've got it here again! On the leg closest on the top that line shouldn't be curved in quite so much, you're giving her much too drumsticky legs stuck to smaller drumsticks as her knee shrinks and the calf grows again too much in relation to the thigh. Does that make sense? I hope so. It's not really that bad, just needs a little more fatting up there on the thigh closer to the knee and she'll be fine.
Ok, toes.. how can no one of mentioned these toes? I can pass up on the back ones and blame the grass but those ones in the front should be lobbed off. Those are monkey toes! For the sereness and grace you're trying to air this picture with and then you give her active toes, that's a no. They should be nice little calm toes all pointing where they should be. I'm sorry if you don't agree but that's just my thoughts.
Again, as I said, the grass, sky, flowers and the whole feel you're going for is very nice, just your figure isn't as good as others you've done before.
Ah, I forgot to mention.. I really like her hair and face ^^;;; Her expression is just I dunno.. but I like it.
Second girl!
First I have to mention her paper bag shirt.. This is the first thing that struck me. There's near on absolute no movement in this shirt which doesn't work with the rest of this picture. She's jumping into the air! Her shirt should be flowing and moving as well. Ok, so how's this not working? Well lets start with the fact it's completely floating around here, there's no push/pull thing going on.. If your body is moving one way the cloth is going to be tight on one side and loose on the other. You've just got loose on all sides, that doesn't work. So first we need to fin the motion that the body's doing. She's jumping up to wave those pompoms! Well here's where I see another problem. You look at pictures of cheerleaders doing this sort of action and their backs aren't straight boards, they're curved back with their chests thrust out. Yes you've got this going on but with how you do such long torso's you need to exagerate it more and I think that most definately more of a bosom would help here, sorry if she's supposed to be fairly young ^^; Bigger and a little lower down.. I'm not sure. Your long torso's make this a little hard.
Ok, well with that sort of motion with chest out and spine curved that means that the material will be flying loose on the chest side and hugging tight on the back. That should help.
Also there's a problem with the straps. Her left, our right, it comes in too close to the neck and you can see the other side curving down towards her back, this isn't so bad if it weren't for the fact that if you do a follow through line to join with the other side of this elipse it comes up pretty short on her back compared to the front.. Now this could be a design to the shirt but I'm thinking this is more of a strappy tank top and so it'd be even length about on both sides. Also the fact that the left (ours) strap is thicker than the right but further away doesn't help.
Onto her left shoulder.. well actually, it's more the armpit, you didn't need to bring that line in so far, you could of cut it back a bit and given it a slight curve so it's not quite so stuck on.
I mentioned the back.. but I'll go into it a bit more. The problem is that if you look at this picture from the top down it seems that she's standing and then you spot the legs and go 'oh, she's jumping' which really means your flow isn't coming through. Which is really sad when really it's a very cute picture and she has a very lively face which just makes you wanna go 'awww'. I love her flowly everywhere hair though possibly her bangs could do with a bit more movement.
There's something about her skirt as well.. I don't quite know, skirts aren't something I'm particullary good at myself so I'm not in a position to comment so much. It just looks alot flatter than what you usually do. Maybe some reference pictures of flow and movement would help with it? That's about the best I can suggest at this moment.
The socks get a bit too loose up at the ankle.. Shoes are cute, though I'm not quite seeing how those socks go into them.. I'll assume the loose parts are covering it up.
Well.. I hope this wasn't too bad x.x;
As always, you've done lovely work n you have a goregeous style to the way you do things. I love your characters and the way you do backgrounds and the colours you use, you're very good with your pallette.
I hope my suggestions help with future work and that they don't make you feel bad.
Any further clarifications you'd like I'm more than happy n yeah..
Keep up the good work!
Happy hunting!
~Pika!
