Oh! I can almost feel the wind in the image. Beautiful.

Keep it up

Gorgeous

Lovely rendering and lighting.

very beautiful. great lighting and feel to the piece. keep it up.

I just love this one!!! Very nice highlights on her face..+ the display of the wind effect...beautiful character...my only suggestion would be to work a bit more on the hair texture over at the right (the shaded area)..

Wonderful work! +7 from me

Good image!

oooooooouch.. that reminds me of...
... forget that. I just gotta say that +7

oh yeah and those grass-plants in front has some jagged edges.. you might want to get rid of them..

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I know painting (or drawing rather) in this kind of anime way wont help me improve... oh well

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Well it certainly won't hurt your painting technique. Nice job.

She is beautiful.Nice feeling.

beautiful girl. Good work.

What? How won't it help you improve?? Every bit of practice helps, I always say, and it really shows that you've practiced a lot, this is a beautiful piece!

She has such beautiful green eyes... I love them

mata ne
rei-lan

Lovley. Expression and movement in this are really nice.

Absolutely beautiful. +9/9

awful

it's quite nice, what do want your paintings to look like?

soft luminous style nice face .

soft luminous style nice face .

Thanks all for the supports

Why I thought I wont improve is because for the past years, I used to like, and were only good at drawing nothing else but a nice girl's face in anime style. Nowadays I try to adapt to a more realistic type of look and rendering, and force myself to consider more about the anatomy of body and the spacil relationship between foreground and background. Pictures like this piece become relatively easy for me to compose and execute. For references, all I need is the mirror on the side of my desk. Just put my head underthe the desired lighting and angle to check the relative relationship. ( Well I don't look like her at all, sadly ).

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 Crow wrote on 11/25 @596
oooooooouch.. that reminds me of...
... forget that. I just gotta say that +7

oh yeah and those grass-plants in front has some jagged edges.. you might want to get rid of them..

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I'm really curious about what it reminds you of I thought I might incorporate some ideas of anime or illustrations that I've seem in the past, and not awaring of it. I was thinking about this so hard during the day, and I thought her look resemble one of the princess in the Disney's animation, Atlantis The Lost Empire.

But suddenly, while I was going to bed, an image of similar look and feel emerged vividly in my mind. I think it's an illustration of a pricetess character in Japanese fantasy fiction, The Record of Arslan's War, done by Yoshitaka Amano. I don't have the artbook with me, but I think it's a similar design in headdress and hair and expression. It's was a beatiful picture and the image might somehow imprint in my mind, without my knowing about it...

Thanks for the reminder about the grass. Will get rid of it soon!

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 bheeshoom wrote on 11/26 @213
awful

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Because it has no background?
sorry to hear that you find this piece awful I'll try harder next time

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 metalpig wrote on 11/26 @321
it's quite nice, what do want your paintings to look like?

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Depends on the case. Right now my aim is to achieve the dedicate look that I've seen in some Korean cg artist's works. A kind of fusion of anime and painting, with an approach in anatomy and rendering more realistic than the traditinal Japanese anime style.

My painting background comes from a foundation still-life painting class. I've oil-painted only friuts and kitchenwares. Just have to practice more on various subjects.

wow, nice composition !
+9

This is a beautiful piece, don't believe what bheeshoom said; some one-word comment without constructive criticism means nothing.
Anime style art is perfectly valid too. I like the realistic approach you took, love the feathers and the wind.

I like the fact that you have created a mythology and have used many methods to visualise it. Are you writing a book?

another thing I noticed is that her eye is very big, though her both eyes are bigger than usually but this one closer to camera (yeah, camera?) is too big IMO. Max points anyway. (like I could or would take them away)

How big is the original image?

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 limpingod wrote on 11/27 @476
I like the fact that you have created a mythology and have used many methods to visualise it. Are you writing a book?

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Indeed I also work on fantasy-fiction writing - in Chinese though, which is my first language. I like creating stories, and express some thoughts with them. Words, pictures, even music (via midi-composing), are all medium for me to tell these stroies.

However it's difficult to find time to maintain exercising in both visual and literature art. I was writing several stories of epic scale during my college years. None of them are finished yet, but some of them have good promises and may get to be published in the end. Then 2 monthes ago I graduated, got a short story published in one of the literature magazine back in my country, got into a company as an illustrative artist, and found I have found no time to read or write so far.

24 hours a day is just not enough

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 Crow wrote on 11/27 @606
another thing I noticed is that her eye is very big, though her both eyes are bigger than usually but this one closer to camera (yeah, camera?) is too big IMO. Max points anyway. (like I could or would take them away)

How big is the original image?

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I agree there's a problem with the perspective treatment of the eyes. The eye closer to the camera (hmmm) is too big, or the eye on the far side is too small.

And here eyes are indeed very big compare to the usual human being... it's the horrible anime taste of mine

The original image is about 1600px wide

Simple and very effective. I love green and you have used them well, it's got a soft feel to it that I like too.

i love it! nice work..

..elegant "anime" style plus nice colours and composition, really like it

I enjoy this very much for its romantecism, fluidity and grace. You've really done well, KEEP IT UP.

I don't find it relates to anime really... unless you mean her bigger eyes. I enjoy drawing bigger eyes as well. They can be the most important part of an image. I don't care for images that are photo-realistic. If you're going to paint something, do something creative with it. If you want it to be realistic, take a photo. =P

She's lovely and I want her head piece. ^^

It seems to cut off too soon, which is a shame because this is an otherwise excellent picture. Well done
+6

Excellent work. There is something pensive and sad about her - and I'm captivated by the soft colour scheme and the look in her eyes.

Thanks all for the comment Now I really feel like drawing more girls....

You should start doing this more frequently. You really master this fine technique.

This is beautiful

BEAUTIFUL !

I like the expresstion pretty much. Makes me wonder about what might be in her mind?^^
By the way, is there anyway for me to read your stories? (Chiness is also my first language, though)
Wish to see more girls!!

Beautiful use of colour, impressive and expressive.

I don't think it's problem that you choose to adopt an Anime style, if that's what you like, what's wrong with being an excellent Anime style artist?

Simple but lovely +6

LOVE IT

love your paintings *heart*
7/7

I love it!