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 Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2005 8:52 pm
Attention colorists: Please try to get as many ratings as you can in as soon as you see this. If you're pressed for time, check to see which artists have less comments than others and just rate those most in need of comments. Please *try* to rate everyone if you can, but we understand that real life obligations come first... afterall, there's only been, what, a month to do all these? j/k wink Rate the colorists: To better organize a listing for fast browsing, and also to help colorists get honest feedback about their work, every member of the group is asked to evaluate, anonymously, every other member. These ratings will be used in the "artist database," so that people can locate artists by quality rating if they choose (like organizing by highest rating at the Art Arena), and also by the colorists receiving the ratings: it's always nice to know what you're doing right and what you're doing wrong. RULES domokun *Fullview* AT LEAST TWO samples the artist has up or don't rate at all. domokun You have 5 days from the day you open your PM that says it's your turn to complete your ratings. domokun Don't edit this first post unless you're on the A-Team. domokun No flaming. domokun When criticising make sure it's constructive and polite. domokun Be fair. Crazy outragous ratings won't count, so also be honest. domokun read the entire post. It should answer all your questions clearly. domokun You do not have to rate everyone at once! domokun Rate each person only once. domokun do not edit other peoples' comments or ratings, even if you think someone should -- if someone's comment is offensive or overly rude, contact someone on A-Team to deal with it. domokun WHERE IT SAYS COLORIST'S NAME in the form, put THEIR name, NOT your name. sweatdrop Do not put your name on the form. domokun Please do not reply in this thread to any comments about you or any other colorist. While some people may be looking for helpful clarifications which is okay, there is potential for irrelevent defensiveness (I know artists) and arguing, so it's best to just ban all of it now. Any A-Team members, since i suck at explaining things so much you can edit this and make it easier to understand if you want xp And also, A-Team members don't really need the password to edit the posts but i'll PM it anyway just so you know when it's your turn ^^ If you've been keeping up to date with the "Shop Talk" thread, you should know what this is about, but if not... I'm going to send the password of this account out in groups. Fill out this form for every member, so that should be 20 that you'll have to fill out (the list or members is at the bottom of this post along with samples) And whatever you do, don't write your name! We don't want people knowing who's comments are yours. They're all suppose to be anonymous. DO rate yourself so that it truly is anonymous; otherwise, whomever didn't just get another rating was obviously the last person to rate. You are required however to be honest. Form example: Colorists name: Pixel Wicheta Rating: ?/10 (10 being the highest) Comment: (Constructive criticism is welcome, but no flaming! if you can't think of anything, don't worry. Just leave it blank.) Is it your turn?? Step-by-Step How To[Step 1:] Verify that it is your turn. Did you get a PM from this mule with a password? Then it's your turn! (don't worry, this doesn't mean that it's exclusively your turn and that no one else has access to the mule at this moment: 3-5 other people received PM's at the same time you did) [Step 2:]Open up the shop front page in a new window. Don't skip this step. Click here to open up the shop front page.[Step 3:] In your old window, log into the mule and surf over to this post. [Step 4:] Copy this form: [quote][B]Colorists name:[/B]
[B]1-10 Rating[/B]:
[B]Comment:[/B][/quote] [Step 5:] Edit the first post with two artists' names in it (Roseanne and Khetienn) [Step 6:] In your new window, click on at least two samples the first artist has to offer and view it. If you're on a faster connection and/or are really committed to being a helpful member of the community, you're encouraged to view all of them, but only TWO are required. [Step 7:] In your old window, paste the form below any others that have already been entered for that artist, and then fill it out, assigning a number 1-10 describing the coloring job you saw in those samples. [Step 8:] Now comment. It can be positive and/or negative, but it must be constructive and it must show that you actually looked at the pictures. [Step 9:] Repeat for the second artist in that post. [Step 10:] Select the entire post and copy to the clipboard before you hit submit incase there's an error in posting (so you don't have to retype it! 4laugh ), and then hit submit. [Step 11:] Now do all of that for the remaining artists, including yourself. Here's the form again biggrin [quote][B]Colorists name:[/B]
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[B]Comment:[/B][/quote] After you've filled out the form for each member, log onto this account and edit the posts in this thread for each member. There will be 2 members per post. Don't edit any current comments or ratings, and only comment/rate once for each person. Simply put.. Pixel Wicheta See, under where it says their name you write the form and fill it in. Do that for every member apart from yourself. (i just took the first two samples from each person from the main BoC page) If you would like to put more of your samples here just post links in this thread and someone on the A-Team will add them. Roseanne: 1 - 2Khetienn: 1 - 2Sora Icefreeze: 1 - 2Damia Grynn: 1 - 2Pixel Wicheta: 1 - 2 - 3AnimeJet: 1 - 2DJPandaHat: 1 - 2missjtsang: 1 - 2Anetra_Pendragon: 1 - 2spy//alex: 1 - 2Farnath: 1 - 2Immunity: 1 - 2Myria_Chan: 1 - 2Chicky-chans Ghost: 1 - 2Jeseia Moretia: 1 2!Mech_Scara: 1 - 2Kryren: 1 2 Balmung: 1 2Celria: 1 2QueenofShaniqwaland: 1 - 2
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Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2005 9:03 pm
RoseannePost your form under the rest Quote: Colorists name: Roseanne 1-10 Rating: 8 Comment: Your sense of light and shadow is very good, and you use wonderfully complementing colors. If I were you I'd blend a little more though. Quote: Colorists name: Roseanne 1-10 Rating: 7 Comment: I think you need to shade your collar bones and necks a bit more. I absolutely adore your soft style hair. Quote: Colorists name: Roseanne 1-10 Rating:9 Comment: Very nice! Your colorings look very professional, I really love the sample you have, with the bluehaired girl with wings. That one is amazing, in my opinion. I can't really offer any advice! Quote: Colorists name: Roseanna 1-10 Rating: 9 Comment: Everything you color always looks so awesome. Nothing else I can say really. Quote: Colorists name: Roseanne 1-10 Rating: 9 Comment:As everyone says, it's excellent. The only problem I find with it is that I have difficulty focusing on the picture, like a slightly out of focus photo, because it's so softly colored. Quote: Colorists name: Roseanne 1-10 Rating: 9 Comment:I adore your coloring. I can't say anything usefull. Quote: Colorists name: Roseanne 1-10 Rating:9 Comment: You style is lovely! I particually love your cell shaded style. Keep up the excellent work! Quote: Colorists name:Roseanna 1-10 Rating: 9 Comment:Certainly the Star of this team. :3 Quote: Colorists name: Roseanne 1-10 Rating: 9 Comment: ...Neatness issues wink Quote: Colorists name: Roseanne 1-10 Rating: 8.5 Comment: Your CGing is no doubt *amazing*. It must take forever to do those pictures where you leave the original lines out. Really nice job. I really enjoy looking at your pictures. The reason for the 8.5, though, is that although you're amazing, you can still improve. Everyone can improve. So, 8.5 now so when you improve, I can give you a higher rating. *forms* Quote: Colorists name: Khetienn 1-10 Rating: 6 Comment: You have good color sense... work on some more complex shadings, and make sure you check for little mistakes. Quote: Colorists name: Khetienn 1-10 Rating: 6 Comment: You need to work on your shadows a bit, and just generally making eveything neater. Quote: Colorists name: Khetienn 1-10 Rating: 6ish? Unsure. Comment: Your shading seems very bright. Shadows should be getting dimmer, as there is less light there. The shaded shadowey areas should not be as bright, or more bright, than the original area that was being shaded. Not all of your samples suffer from this, though.. from what I can see a good number of them do (my connection is too slow for me to look at every picture full sized, sorry.) That is what I would suggest working on. Quote: Colorists name: Khetienn 1-10 Rating: 7.5 Comment: I like you style. It's very soft, but defined at the same time. Quote: Colorists name: Khetienn 1-10 Rating: 6 Comment: Your shading and highlighting appears very randomly splashed on to the picture. Also, I agree with what the person two forms above me said about shading. Quote: Colorists name: Khetienn 1-10 Rating: 6 Comment:Although I quite liked some of your works, others had a look to them I can't quite place. More like- you didn't try as hard. On average, though, I think you did pretty well. Oh, one more thing: Try not to mix cel and soft shading if you can help it. Quote: Colorists name: Khetienn 1-10 Rating: 6 Comment: First and formost, the examples in your shop are not clickable. Just in case you didn't know. Ok, down to business. The cell shaded pictures you have don't really look shaded. They still retain a flat look, try adding in more depth to the shading to help it look more professional and real. But you did a great job keeping the shadows in the right places and coloring in the lines! The lineless seem very blurred in the shading, try for a bit more sharpness, as it is now it appears like it is out of focus. Your use of colors is very nice! But be careful not to contridict the light source. Quote: Colorists name: Ketienn 1-10 Rating: 6 Comment:well, pritty good, but i must say... your shading is a little... flat ^^; ...its not that bad though, but i suggest adding a little bit more contast and round out your shading a little more, give it some volume :3 Quote: Colorists name: Khetienn 1-10 Rating: 6 Comment: Your pieces are inconsisttnt. The most distracting thing is that you are leaning way way way too heavily on the smear tool or some other such tool that does the same thing. The smear tool can be used to get great effects, but I don't think you know what you're doing with it. the strokes are random and don't follow the contours of the objects in the picture... and there's a real tendency toward MESSINESS. Especially in those lineless ones, they look blurry and splotchy. Definitely work on sharpening up edges. Quote: Colorists name: Khetienn 1-10 Rating: 5.5 Comment: Sloppy sloppy sloppy... In pretty much every piece I've seen, I can point out a place where you've colored out of the lines, or let one of the colors bleed into another one. Also, try using darker shades and stronger highlights. After you do your basic shading, shade again in a slightly darker color and repeat until you think it looks right. You have talent, so it's killing me to give you a 5.5. The shading you have is really good, and your color choice is awesome. Just work on coloring more in the lines, and shading/highlighting a bit more. Also, I advise you to stay away from lineless coloring until you've mastered the shading and highlight-ness. You might want to ask Roseanne about it, because she has very nice lineless coloring.
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Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2005 9:04 pm
Sora IcefreezePost your form above the rest of the forms and below the name. Quote: Colorists name: Sore Icefreeze 1-10 Rating: 8 Comment: its actually pritty good... i think the other people are noticing the lineart too much ^^; ...anyways, yeah, its quite good, all i can suggest is sharpening your cast shadows. they currently look a little bended, and blurred, making them look very similar to the shadows that develop as they bend around the figures. (know about finger puppets? ...know how you can tell what they are and them not being completely un identifyable until the person starts making the cheap noise the animal may sound like... XD; ) Quote: Colorists name: Sora Icefreeze 1-10 Rating: 7 Comment: You have a great sense of what colors to use to shade: you make the eyes have high contrast and saturation to draw the focus to them, and nothing ever looks dirty like you'd get with the burn tool. Don't forget that hair is a different surface; the light plaaays on hair instead of perfectly lighting it like a plastic sphere. I think your blending is the second best thing you have going for you. It's not too smeared or blurry and has just enough *tooth* to be interesting; too many people smear or blur their shading to DEATH. Quote: Colorists name: Sora Icefreeze 1-10 Rating: 6 Comment: I love the way you do eyes. Your clothing wrinkles are also very good. My advice to you is to be more clear on where your light source is coming from and shade accordingly. Also, your painty-style blending looks very much like you used the smudge brush and didn't smooth it out. Try going for less jaggy shading. Quote: Colorists name: Sora Icefreeze 1-10 Rating: 6 Comment: All your pictures have very different coloring styles, so it's hard to comment. But i do think you need to give your shadows more depth. Quote: Colorists name: Sora Icefreeze1-10 Rating: 7 Comment: Your shadows look a little funny, though I really don't quite know why. I agree with previous statements that you should work on the depth of the shadows, and also that your hair doesn't look very hairlike. Remember that it's lots of strands layered ontop of eachother, not a flat surface, so the hilights won't be straight on one line, they're more likely to be sort of jagged, I guess is an alight word to use. Quote: Colorists name: Sora Icefreeze 1-10 Rating: 7 Comment: Your colors are very soft and well shaded. The eyes are a bit dull and don't really suit the soft-shade kind of look that you have. The way you color kinda makes everything look like it's all made of the same thing. Quote: Colorists name: Sora Icefrees 1-10 Rating: 6 Comment: If you change the color of the lineart, you shouldn't change the entire thing, but selectively shade it to match the area it surrounds. In the second sample given, if you had darkened the lineart about the eyes to a darker shade of brown, and made it a dark gray/steel blue around the white areas, I think it might have looked much cleaner. And yes...work on shadow depth. Quote: Colorists name: Sora Icefreeze 1-10 Rating: 7 Comment: Your pictures appear to have an almost convoluted appearance to some of them, It's hard to explain. But over all it is very good. Try to use shadows more freqently, remember the light source and how they will fall. Nice blending and soft style, but it will be more defined with definate shadows. Quote: Colorists name: Sora Icefreeze 1-10 Rating: 6.5 Comment: I love how your WIP is coming out. blaugh The thing with your colouring, though, is that it give this kind of... dirty look. Not dirty, but... Hmm... I don't know how to explain it. It looks like it could use a bit more blending. *forms* Quote: Colorists name: Damia Grynn 1-10 Rating: 5 Comment: My advice is to choose for your base colors something less saturated, something more in the middle of the color triangle/square (depending on whether it's Photoshop or Painter) and then play with using different values *and* saturations to shade, and not just values only. When you just decrease the value (adding black) you lose some quality to the shading; same with highlights (adding white). Anyway, by choosing something with medium saturation, it'll be way easier to ramp up or tone down your surface. Details, anatomy, textures all = fantastic biggrin Quote: Colorists name: Damia Grynn 1-10 Rating: 5 Comment: I like your highlights, they're very well placed, and you have a good sense for anatomy. However, your shading/highlighting looks a little "dirty"... are you using the dodge/burn tools? Baaaaad idea, especially on skin. You'll want to go for a more saturated, darker (lighter for highlights) version of the same color, instead of desaturating the color you have. Mixing bits of other colors in is also effective (more greenish or purplish highlights on blue, orange-y highlights on red, purple in your dark shadows, etc.) Another thing I wanted to say is that you should have an intermediary color instead of going straight to a dark/light shadow/highlight, because otherwise it makes your surface look very plasticky/shiny and that's not always a good thing. (wow, I wrote a lot for you... sweatdrop ) Quote: Colorists name: Damia Grynn 1-10 Rating: 5 Comment: You need to work on your light sources and placing of shadows and highlight. Quote: Colorists name: Damia Grynn 1-10 Rating: 6 or 7ish Comment: Well, it's nice, but I think the shadows could be deeper, though the hilights are good as they are for the most part. Hilight placement could use a bit of work. Quote: Colorists name: Damia Grynn 1-10 Rating: 7 Comment: To be honest I think it looks awesome. My only problem with the overall is that it doesn't seem to go with the lineart. But that's what I'm supposed to be commenting on, so.. overall it looks good. Quote: Colorists name: Damia Grynn 1-10 Rating: 5 Comment: I'm in total agreement with what the first rating says. smile Quote: Colorists name: Damia Grynn 1-10 Rating: 6 Comment: Your coloring is messy in places around the lines, makes sure to always go back and double check for wayward bits of color outside of the lines. Your use of texture is good! Keep at it! But I suggest working on more detailed shading. Quote: Colorists name: Damia Grynn 1-10 Rating: 5 Comment: its quite rushed, and a little messy. Your shading all comes from the generally the same lightsource, buy you seem to of forgotten the fact that the large lensflare you put on the angelic bracelet is actually a source of light! ^^; ...don't just keep in mind that the shading should all bend away from the lightsource, but where that lightsource should be aswell :3 Quote: Colorists name: Damia Grynn 1-10 Rating: 5.5 Comment: Great stuff. blaugh I think everything would look so much better if you added more shading. I don't know if you normally shade more, but I can only go off those two pictures since your shop isn't set up yet.
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Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2005 9:07 pm
Pixel WichetaPost your form above the rest of the forms and below the name. Quote: Colorists name: Pixel Wicheta 1-10 Rating: 8 Comment: Awesomeawesomeawesome! XD; oh what's this... three examples shown? ...^^; ...anyways, kinda useful, we get to see your background skill... and that i must say needs a little bit help... your first example shows that you can infact do very good skillful shading, and skillful details... but neither of those seem to be applied to the backgrounds... Remember, the envirment the character is in is just as important as the character itself! Quote: Colorists name: Pixel Wicheta 1-10 Rating: 8 Comment: You are awesome. biggrin But don't blend so much. I looked at all of your samples... and they almost gave me the impression that they'd gone through a blur filter and then were cut off around the edges to make sharp... edges... (edits out own rambling - sorry about that) Your first two samples are excellent and I can't think of anything I'd ask you to change that isn't purely stylistic. Tough love for an AWESOME colorist. Quote: Colorists name: Pixel Wicheta 1-10 Rating: 7 Comment: You have a really really awesome painter-ish style. You make all the different materials look great. My advice for you would be to mix a little more complementary color into your shadows (see Damia's advice if you don't know what I mean), because your skin especially has very red-toned shadows and I'm not sure that's working. Quote: Colorists name: Pixel Wicheta 1-10 Rating: 8 Comment: Your shadows on skin are too red, they look like you've used to burn tool too much. And in most of your samples you've blended way too much. Keep clear of the blur tool if possible. Quote: Colorists name: Pixel Wicheta 1-10 Rating: 8 Comment: I'm not experienced and I know it. All I can say is that your stuff looks awesome. I really like that 3rd sample, the whole forest scene you got going on there, it's beautiful. Quote: Colorists name: Pixel Wicheta 1-10 Rating: 10 Comment: You manage to combine soft shading with hard lines so perfectly it makes me want to cry out of jealousy. xp All of your portraits look like they could just walk right off the screen and into the real world. Quote: Colorists name: Pixel Wicheta 1-10 Rating: 8 Comment: Lovely shading and hair textures! The lineless seems a little over blurred in some places, but otherwise perfect. Lovely work! Quote: Colorists name: Pixel Wicheta 1-10 Rating: 9 Comment: Wow!! Your line-less colouring is *awesome*. I really love your third example. It's wonderful. When I look at it, I expect to see a little fairy jump out from behind a tree. It's really pretty. I think your line-less colouring is actually better than your line colouring. Really nice job. *forms* Quote: Colorists name: Animejet 1-10 Rating: 9 Comment: I've been watching you for awhile, and I don't really have anything to critisize about your coloring, its really good... :3 Quote: Colorists name: AnimeJet 1-10 Rating: 9 Comment:You have some conflicting lightsource problems (with the color and *intensity* of the lightsource) but no biggie, and definitely nothing I'd notice without looking for it. Beautiful blending, awesome color choices. I wish I had some advice to give you. You AMAZE me biggrin Quote: Colorists name: AnimeJet 1-10 Rating: 8 Comment: Wow, you're really good. Umm... do I have anything to tell you to improve on? xd Your skin looks kinda shiny, very much so in that second sample. Unless she's wet or oiled or something ( eek ) you might wanna blend that in a little more. Quote: Colorists name: AnimeJet 1-10 Rating: 9 Comment: Your soft style shading is excellent. I really can't see anything wrong with it at all. But maybe give your cell style a bit more depth. Quote: Colorists name: AnimeJet 1-10 Rating: 9 Comment: I envy your skills for being able to pick out just the right color, and shading. Quote: Colorists name: AnimeJet 1-10 Rating: 7 Comment: In my opinion your work is...average. You follow all the guidelines, color perfectly, but to me, it has no life, no personality. Nothing there to make it recognizably yours. In other words...it's great work, but it has nothing at all to distinguish it from someone else's work of the same skill level. Quote: Colorists name: AnimeJet 1-10 Rating: 9 Comment:Lovely! My only suggestion would be to the cell shading. Make sure the picture has the amount of depth it deserves with the light and shadows. But every thing is beautifully done! Quote: Colorists name: AnimeJet 1-10 Rating: 7.5 Comment: *pokes the pretty-ness* Really nice WIP! It's really nice. I love how you did the white highlights on the skin in the second example. Omg, it rawks. It makes her look uber sexy. whee
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Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2005 9:10 pm
DJPandaHatPost your form above the rest of the forms and below the name. Quote: Colorists name: DJPandaHat 1-10 Rating: 3 Comment: ok, the color choices are good, but that's almost all i can say, shading lacks contast and is quite weak. Your current examples don't show much effort and time put into them And I'm not all that sure why you are requesting a minimum of 5k per picture... I'm not all that sure why people would buy anything either. Sorry to be so blunt sad Quote: Colorists name: DJPandaHat 1-10 Rating: 7 Comment: I love your style. I love the quirkiness of your color choices and then the way those choices exactly complement the way you lay down the color. Highlights might look a tad too white sometimes, though. Quote: Colorists name: DJPandaHat 1-10 Rating: 4 Comment: Your shading is off to a really good start, especially the hair and lips. The colors, though (especially skin) look a little... off. You can find a good fleshtone palette at some doll sites. Also, a bit more detail in your clothing shading wouldn't hurt. heart Quote: Colorists name: DJPandaHat 1-10 Rating: 4 Comment: You need to neaten your coloring alot. Put less highlight on your noses and more everywhere else. Quote: Colorists name: DJPandaHat 1-10 Rating: 4 Comment: I pretty much agree with the two people above me. Your skin tones are grayish, and have little life; using a brighter shade of the same color would do wonders, as would darkening shadows about the face a little. Quote: Colorists name: DJPandaHat 1-10 Rating: 5 Comment: I love the uniqeness in your style! My advice would be to work on the detail of your shading, and not to over shade, make sure the shadows are there and the highlights aren't blinding. Quote: Colorists name: DJPandaHat 1-10 Rating: 6 Comment: Realistic tones are a plus, but when I look at the coloring as a whole, there is only one part in the entire picture that looks like it's got some real good effort in it. The rest kinda looks like it was was just laid down. Also the picture looks a little dull, maybe brighten it up a bit. Quote: Colorists name: DJPandaHat 1-10 Rating: (not really sure) 6? Comment: Your style is so different than most things I see. It looks like you actually painted your examples. eek I love how you added the white to the nose. I think it looks cute. All I can say, is try to deepen your work by adding more shadows/highlights. You don't really have any highlights (except for the white) in your pictures. *forms* Quote: Colorists name: missjtsang 1-10 Rating: 5 Comment: Nice to know that you can do more than just one thing, but I'm not sure if the customers would like someone who doesn't have much of a predictable or expected style or quality to them. I can probably suggest to make a few images dine in the same style, just so you can show any customers that you can keep your style thoughout. Also try to avoid having part of a picture shaded in cel, and another part shaded softly, it almost makes it looks a little unfishied. Quote: Colorists name: missjtsang 1-10 Rating: 6 Comment: I like your versatility, the way each piece shows that you can do things a different way. Be nice to the lines, put them on a different layer and set them to multiply, whatever you have to do to keep your coloring nice and freshly set away from those lines. I suggest for you to start playing with less saturated colors; all your highlights, while very pretty, go to the extremest of saturation and high value (dodge tool, glow tool, bleach tool... a bunch of things do that); try instead of going up 3 values for a highlight, go up 2 values and over 1 hue. Definitely play with using other hues (greens to highlight blues, yellows to highlight greens...). It won't always work, but it's way fun to play with. Very nice attention to detail! Quote: Colorists name: missjtsang 1-10 Rating: 6 Comment: I like your clothing detail and color choices. You suffer a bit from the shiny-skin syndrome as well. Make sure you figure out the intensity of the light source as well as its location. The dimmer or more diffused the light, the less noticeable the shadows and highlights are going to be. Quote: Colorists name: missjtsang 1-10 Rating: 6 Comment: I like you shadows, but you maybe need to neaten them. Or save at a higher quality? Your highlights are too intense, try using a regular brush with a light color instead of the dodge/glow tool. Or lower the opacity on the tool your using. You also need to work on light sources a little. Quote: Colorists name: missjtsang 1-10 Rating: 6ish Comment: Try making your shadows a little darker; if I had a lesser quality graphics card or moniter, it would all look very close to flat-colored. Quote: Colorists name: missjtsang 1-10 Rating: 7 Comment: Looks great! I saw a few places where the coloring was sloppy, but overall there wasn't a problem. Though I agree with those above me in making your shadows darker. A few light source problems, but not bad enough to really be noticed, but keep in mind where your light is comming from. Quote: Colorists name: missjtsang 1-10 Rating: 8 Comment: I absolutely adore your coloring. Everything blends nicely and the shading is awesome. Quote: Colorists name: missjtsang 1-10 Rating: 8 Comment: Hehe, I really like how you do hair. It's really pretty. whee And I love how you did the shirt on your second example. *dies* Really nice job!!
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Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2005 9:10 pm
Anetra_PendragonPost your form above the rest of the forms and below the name. Quote: Colorists name: 1-10 Rating: 8 Comment:color choices are awesome... and oh, the way you've made it so clear on what you will do to each picture, makes it quite reassuring to the customers what will be done, which is nice. For yours osft shading though... I have to say there is too many flat areas, shaded flatly. Round out your shading and add a little bit more contrast and wala! :3 Quote: Colorists name: Anetra_Pendragon 1-10 Rating: 5 Comment: Your cell-style shading looks pretty good, but I'd work a little more on definition in your soft-style. It's really hard to tell where your shadows are; using darker colors and only blending the edges will help with that. Quote: Colorists name: Anetra_Pendragon 1-10 Rating: 6 Comment:I like that you take a lot of care with your coloring and work hard on the little details. Your blending is nice. Try stepping up the contrast, maybe, and adding more saturation to skin shadows biggrin Quote: Colorists name: Anetra_Pendragon 1-10 Rating: 6 Comment: You don't have enough samples on the main BoC page to get a good impression of your coloring skills. But from what i've seen, you need to work on lightsources and make more highlights. Quote: Colorists name: Anetra_Pendragon 1-10 Rating: 8 Comment: Your style would be absolutely beautiful on a tarot card or a stylized mandala. For normal coloring however, I would suggest using less gray for shadows, and making your highlights a little brighter. Quote: Colorists name: Anetra_Pendragon 1-10 Rating: 5.5 Comment: Your cell shading sample is very messy, the shading is in the right places, a little to dark in some places, but over all good. I think it would have been a lot better if you would have cleaned up and finished shading it. Your soft shading is good, you have the light and shadows in the right places, but your examples aren't done, or were fast jobs. I think they would look worlds better if you completed them and put a lot of time and effort into them. Again I think some of the shading on the face is over done, try to work on more of a blend of lights and shadows so it looks natural. Quote: Colorists name: Anetra_Pendragon 1-10 Rating: 7 Comment: Shadow and highlights placement look great in your cell-shade sample, but I do have to agree with the above that is looks messy. I really liked the soft-shade one, though it looks a little too gray. Quote: Colorists name: Anetra_Pendragon 1-10 Rating: 7 Comment: That's awesome that you can do so many different types of colouring. My only advice is that you should try to make your highlights and shadows bigger. You can totally shade/highlight, but I think it'd look so much better if you did bigger, bolder highlights/shading. 3nodding *forms* Quote: Colorists name: 1-10 Rating: 3 Comment:when it comes to shading, people forget one of two things, the big picture, and the little bits... you seem to of forgotten the little bits. Something such as folds in a scarf are quite forgotten, and I think, once you pat attention to shading everything, instead of just the masses, then you can easily work on improving the rest of your style. Quote: Colorists name: spy//alex 1-10 Rating: 4 Comment: I love the way you make your color tones work. You choose very similarly themed colors (ex. all "ashy" colors or all "jewel-tone" colors, none that clash), but your shading could use quite a bit of work. Your highlights are much too bright and they stick out a lot. Especially on the green creature, this makes it appear shiny. Try to envision where the shadows would naturally fall, the curve of muscles, the strands of hair, and you'll do much better. However, your black-shading is very good smile I always have troubles with black. Quote: Colorists name: spy//alex 1-10 Rating: 5.5 Comment:Neatness is very good, color choice is great. Don't just shade along the lines of the image, try to visualize the 3Dness of your subject, and shade according to that, and not the lines that the artist has drawn. Quote: Colorists name: spy//alex 1-10 Rating: 5 Comment: You need to make your shadows and highlights bigger. Instead of having just one small line, make a whole area shadowed. Quote: Colorists name: spy//alex 1-10 Rating: 4.5 Comment: I think it's a little *too* soft-shaded. Quote: Colorists name: spy//alex 1-10 Rating: 6 Comment: Your off to a wonderful start! Your shadows and hightlight are in the correct places, just work on more detailed shading. Quote: Colorists name: spy//alex 1-10 Rating: 5.5 Comment: I think you did a *really* nice job on your animal thinger. You should deepen your shadows a bit, though. You're bass shadows are really good, so I know you know how to shade. Just try puting another darker colour to back up your shadows.
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Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2005 9:11 pm
FarnathPost your form above the rest of the forms and below the name. Quote: Colorists name: 1-10 Rating: 3 Comment:well... you get points for coloring inbetween the lines... ^^; ...I suggest to try shading and not being very subtle with it. go at it for awhile... then when you noticed you've improved, look back at some of the old works you've made and were once proud of... you might suprise yourself ^^; Quote: Colorists name: Farnath 1-10 Rating: 3 Comment: Your choices of shadow/highlight colors are generally very good. Your shading technique, however, needs some work. 3-dimensionality is what you are striving for, even in non-painty styles like cell coloring. The wings on your bug-like creature are quite good, but you could definitely even go further with that; experiment with different brushes, stroke types, make interesting patterns. A secret: the lightsource filter in Photoshop can actually help quite a lot to see if your shadows are placed properly and to help visualize where your highlights should go. I think it's in Filter > Render > Spotlight, or something similar. Place it where you think the lightsource is coming from and you'll see right away if any of your shadows are "off". Quote: Colorists name: Farnath 1-10 Rating: 4 Comment: Good color choices but work on making highlights that aren't white and keeping the shading more true to the contours of the shapes. Also try stepping up the contrast to see what happens, or experimenting with texture: texture doesn't have to come from an imported file or photo (and not that it *should*), but it can come from just the way you brush on the color. Quote: Colorists name: Farnath 1-10 Rating: 5 Comment: The colors are blended just a little too much; contrast is nil. Try making darker shadows, without fading it quite as much. Quote: Colorists name: Farnath 1-10 Rating: 3 Comment: The color choices are lovely! You color inside the lines well, and you have a good grasp on where the lights and shadows fall. But work on more detailed shading and textures. You have great potential! Just practice ^^ Quote: Colorists name: Farnath 1-10 Rating: 5 Comment: Lol, the butterfly is adorable. The only thing for me is that it looks like you are very centered to one light source. What I mean is that the light source in most of your pictures are always in the same direction. Other than that, the shading is a little too light, and too blended with the rest of the color. Other than that, looks good. Quote: Colorists name: Farnath 1-10 Rating: 4.5 Comment: You have *really* nice patterns/textures/whatever you call 'em, but your shading and highlighting looks kinda all over the place... like you were just throwing darker/lighter colours in there and claiming you shaded/highlighted it. Work on the placement of your shadows and highlights and you'll be good. *forms* Quote: Colorists name: Immunity 1-10 Rating: 8 Comment:Why do you want to leave because you aren't good? take another look, as if it was someone else's coloring... still hate it, still think its bad? ...didn't think so. Your shading is good, appropriate textures, and the styles you use suit the lineart so well. All i can suggest now is to spend more time, getting finer details, less rushed coloring, and smoother more plesant result :3 Quote: Colorists name: Immunity 1-10 Rating: 7 Comment: Wow, your shadings are great, as are the colors. I can't decide though whether the "scribbly" effect is helping or hurting you. On the one hand, I really really like it, but on the other, in some places it looks almost "scratchy" and that's a little bit distracting. Overall it makes for great pictures, and not everybody is totally nitpicky to detail, but it does stand out a lot in comparison to your softer shadings. Also, I would say that you have to be REALLY careful that it doesn't look sloppy, but you don't seem to suffer much from that problem. heart Quote: Colorists name: Immunity 1-10 Rating: 8 Comment: I love your texture! I love the fact that it looks hand done rather than *imported* like most textures I see look. I don't know if it *is* hand-done, but that's how it looks, which is awesome. I love seeing that part of an artwork, the strokes, the part that makes it look more like someone did it and less like a machine did. I also like the way you use contrasting colors (or just different colors, not necessarily contrasting) to shade. Quote: Colorists name: Immunity 1-10 Rating: 7.5 Comment: Your fur has promise, and your colors are vibrantly alive. Keep up the good work! Quote: Colorists name: Immunity 1-10 Rating: 6 Comment: I see a few light source problems, nothing that can't be fixed. Your use of texture is wonderful, just work at refining your technique. The main thing that bothers me is the lines themselves, they are very pixelated, I can completly understand if they came to you that way, but if your upping the contrast on them to make the lines more defined, then try not to do so much, it gives them a very unatractive pixelated look. Quote: Colorists name: Immunity 1-10 Rating: 8.5 Comment: Textures look amazing! Your shading is definate and well-rounded. Quote: Colorists name: Immunity 1-10 Rating: 6 Comment: Omg, your dragon is like WOAH! *dies* It's hawt. I can't wait to see the other stages. whee All I can say is that you should work on being a tad bit more neater. Everything is awesome, but there are a few spots you coloured out of the lines or you didn't colour at all. Your textures/patterns/whatever kick a**, though. I'm like in love with your dragon. crying
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Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2005 9:12 pm
Myria_ChanPost your form above the rest of the forms and below the name. Quote: Colorists name: 1-10 Rating: 5 Comment: you can shade, just your shadows show the lightsource infront, and your highlist show your lightsource is in the back... so the middle, tends to be flat. Your sparkly texturing is awesome for coviring that up though, try to texture on more colorings while your working on shading the whole figure, rather than just the sides, as textures are wonderfully awesome for hiding any shading imperfections ^^; Quote: Colorists name: Myria_Chan 1-10 Rating: 4 Comment: Okay. You don't suffer from the "flat" syndrome, but you haven't quite gotten to the 3-dimensionality stage yet either. You know the bevel/emboss filter in photoshop? This is what your pictures look like, especially that goat (?) animal. Contrast is good, but beware of too much. Very dark shadows combined with very bright highlights (almost white, which is *never* good unless the thing you are shading is very shiny) tend to make things raised-looking, like those puffy stickers. Your sense of anatomy seems to be pretty good; if you blend more, along the curves of things (for painty style) or toned down the contrast a bit (for cell style) you'd be in much better shape. Quote: Colorists name: Myria_Chan 1-10 Rating: 4 Comment: You have so much potential and I really mean this: You have great color choice creativity, style creativity, a boldness and willingness to really put yourself on the line and create some highly contrasting shadows. Having said that: highlights shouldn't be plain white, don't compress your pictures so much when you save them because that pixelated look of where the lineart and your coloring meet really drags down the score, even though it shouldn't! And really keep it up and keep experimenting. Quote: Colorists name: Myria_Chan 1-10 Rating: 5 Comment: The coloring on the goat reminded me of a jewel, or something very deep-looking. Apply that style to eyes, jewels, lakes, and you would have a wonderful affect. For normal objects however, try using less gray, and more of either a darker shade of the main color, or a constrasting shade, for a more intriguing appearance. The same goes for highlights, save you lighter colors, not darker. Quote: Colorists name: Myria_Chan 1-10 Rating: 4 Comment: You need to refine you light sourse more. Pick a direction and just go with it. You pictures also have very little depth, they're not flat looking, but the shadows are by no means soft, try to acheive a more 3-D look. Quote: Colorists name: Myria_Chan 1-10 Rating: 5 Comment: In one your shadows are too light, and in the other they are too dark ><;; Color choices are awesome. You have great potential. Quote: Colorists name: Myria_Chan 1-10 Rating: 4 Comment: Intersting colour choice on the second example. Kinda reminds me of the desert for some reason. whee Just work on making your shading darker for now, and try to use a lighter colour of the orginal bass colour instead of white. *forms* Quote: Colorists name: Chicky-chans Ghost 1-10 Rating: 5 Comment:You can do textures and patterns... but how well can yu shade? ...from what is show, isn't a good example, try it out sometime, shading does the soul good :3 Quote: Colorists name: Chicky-chans Ghost 1-10 Rating: 6 Comment: First of all, I have to say, your first sample makes me laugh. whee Now then. Your patterning and textures are quite good. Some of them, though, are quite obviously photoshopped in (the clouds, the wall.) If you can learn to do those effects (or similar ones) on your own, without filters, you would be quite the stunning colorist. Your shading is also very good as it follows the natural shapes of things. I still can't stop giggling at that first sample. Quote: Colorists name: Chicky-chans Ghost 1-10 Rating: 5 Comment: Your best examples are not the first two, so I hope anyone reading this goes to the page and looks at the other ones. I like how you're experimenting with texturing things and coloring different surfaces differently. Try using highlights that are only slightly lighter than your base color, and maybe more saturated, rather than white, and seeif youlike that any better. Experiment using all kinds of colors to shade any one base color. Quote: Colorists name: Chicky-chans Ghost 1-10 Rating: 5-6 Comment: Your coloring has a feel to it that would do extremely well in the breedables arena. Quote: Colorists name: Chicky-chans Ghost 1-10 Rating: 5 Comment:Nice use of textures! The coloring is clean and inside of the lines, I didn't see any mistakes! I suggest working on more detailed shading, just fine toon the details. Your light source is good just keep in mind the details. And don't be afraid to shade boldly! Quote: Colorists name: Chicky-chans Ghost 1-10 Rating: 6 Comment: Mmm, a quick glance at it and you wouldn't notice that it had a bit of shading on it. Deepen the shadows a bit and it would look awesome! Your texturing is awesome. Quote: Colorists name: Chicky-chans Ghost 1-10 Rating: 5 Comment: I love the patterns you used on the animals. They're really pretty. You also have a nice colour selection. Using opposite colours to colour your 2nd picture was an interesting idea. My advice to you is work on doing *real* backgrounds instead of relying on photoshop to make cheap backgrounds for you. wink
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Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2005 9:13 pm
Jeseia MoretiaPost your form above the rest of the forms and below the name. Quote: Colorists name: Jeseia Moretia 1-10 Rating: 7 Comment:I'd say style consistincy is what you need to work on. that and, your textures are great, but your shading, kinda has to work with your highlights. by that, i mean, don't spend forever texturing something one way with shading, then just slop on an a smoothed highlight. it makes it look like its just been painted with gloss... I don't believe, fur, looks like a painted on gloss... ^^; Just keep your style consistant to keep a finished look, and start with shading, then texture, I do believe it will help :3 Quote: Colorists name: Jeseia Moretia 1-10 Rating: 6 Comment: Your patterning is very good. Though watch out to make sure you use the same kind of technique throughout the whole picture. In the dragon one, you have this nice smooth, shiny finish on everything, and then all of a sudden a hard line of lighter color on the hair. Compared to the "finished" look of everything else, it looks out of place. Otherwise your anatomy is fairly good, and your shadows and highlights pretty well placed (I assume you *wanted* the dragon shiny, otherwise I'd tell you to tone down the highlights a little) Quote: Colorists name: Jeseia Moretia 1-10 Rating: 7 Comment: I love your textures and the way you use multiple styles in one image to give the impression that something is made up of many different materials... and it also just looks kinda cool. Be careful when blending on top of textures/shading them, because it looks muddy if you accidentally smear the texture to smoothness while trying to even out the shading. Quote: Colorists name: Jeseia Moretia 1-10 Rating: 8 Comments: Your textures are amazing. They look so realistic, especially fur. Quote: Colorists name: Jeseia Moretia 1-10 Rating: 7 Comment: Be careful with light sources. The fox in particular is a little peculiar looking, but the dragon could also use some work. I also agree with what was said about the hair on the dragon. Quote: Colorists name: Jeseia Moretia 1-10 Rating: 7 Comment: Nice use of texture in the breedables! My suggestion is to add more depth to your cell shaded pictures. Quote: Colorists name: Jeseia Moretia 1-10 Rating: 7 Comment: Really nice pets! I like the fur textures. whee Very realistic looking. Nice job! I really like your cell shading, too. I like your colour choices as well. *forms* Quote: Colorists name:!Mech_Scara 1-10 Rating: 8 Comment:Ok, your textures will make you like, loved, as soon as this place gets popular, love the fact that your helping out with the whole random freebie thing, (hope I get one XD) so yeah, just try to make your hair more sexy :3 Quote: Colorists name: !Mech_Scara 1-10 Rating: 8 Comment: I love love LOVE the way you texture things. That's so awesome. And if you did those backgrounds yourself, I'm even more in awe. Your shading and highlighting are very good. The only thing I can suggest is to blend a little more on the skin. Those whitish dots are very disconcerting. Also, I think the hair could use a tiny bit more definition, but other than that, great job! Quote: Colorists name: !Mech_Scara 1-10 Rating: 7 Comment: Your samples are all so... different from one another in quality and style that I'm not sure what to give you! I love what you've done on the first sample (although the face looks a *tincy* bit lumpy) but you don't get that same level of awesomeness for any of the other samples. Be careful when you shade skin tones and concentrate on shading hair in clumps rather than individual strands... if you can do *both* then that'll make for a great piece of work, but first work on clumps, and then strands. Quote: Colorists name: !Mech_Scara 1-10 Rating: 8 Comments: All I can say is awesome!! Quote: Colorists name: !Mech_Scara 1-10 Rating: 9 Comment: Beautiful. Absolutely beautiful. Another sample of artwork that feels like it could jump right off the screen. Quote: Colorists name: !Mech_Scara 1-10 Rating: 6 Comment:You shading is good, and in all the right places, I suggest working on more detailed shading. You use of texture is good, but it seems over done. Texture is good, but too much is overwhelming. Quote: Colorists name: !Mech_Scara 1-10 Rating: 7.5 Comment: I love your backgrounds!! Really pretty. whee Your hair seems to be lacking in a lot of the pictures. Everything else is *really* nice, though!
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Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2005 9:14 pm
KryrenPost your form above the rest of the forms and below the name. Quote: Colorists name: Kryren 1-10 Rating: 3 Comment: Your second sample doesn't suffer *quite* as much from this, but your shading doesn't seem to follow the contours of what you are coloring at all... it looks just dabbled on there, basically. What you want to do is study where the light and shadows would naturally fall, and place your shading there to give it the proper "shaded" 3-dimensional look. Also, are you relying on the dodge/burn tools? If you are, DON'T! Use colors with a bit more saturation to them as your shading/highlight colors. Quote: Colorists name: Kryen 1-10 Rating: 2 Comment:Try selling solid, nonshaded art, you could have more business 0.o ...you seem to need either practice or patience when it comes to shading, so work on your shading with some pictures, and then, yay, you can start getting more decent prices for your colorings :3 Quote: Colorists name: Kryren 1-10 Rating: 3 Comment: It seems like you are just putting the flats down and then lightly dabbing the picture with shading, you know? And with a smooth, barely visibile/color brush. Sometimes you do not follow the contour of the object, like the wings and such, just a smattering of coloring. Try to pratice more with where shading goes and how it looks like. Quote: Colorists name: Kryren 1-10 Rating: 3 Comment: Be bold! Nothing cries "I don't know what I'm doing" than weak shading. If you're going to shade muscles or a shirt or hair, really *go for it* and don't hold back for fear of making a mistake: make that mistake boldly, because most people will be so awed by your boldness they won't even notice if it's wrong. Lay off the smearing tool even if you think it doesn't look good when it's not blended so much: try it, I'll bet you it shoots you up to a 7 at least. Good textures, though. Quote: Colorists name: Kryren 1-10 Rating: 3 Comments: Your pictures look really flat. Like you just kinda paint bucketed it and then went over with a white airbrush. Not that there's anything wrong with that, you just need to empahize your shading more, make it bold, but blended. Quote: Colorists name: Kryren 1-10 Rating: 3 Comment: Your lighting and shadows don't appear to have any particular rhyme or reason to how they are applied. Pretend you have a lightbulb in one direction, and that's the only place light comes from. The easiest way to practice this is to color a picture with the light coming straight towards one side. Three-quarters, top, and bottom lightsource can come later. Quote: Colorists name: Kryren 1-10 Rating: 2.5 Comment: I like your attempts at hair texture, but it doesn't seem to flow as well as it could. It seems really out of place, try to make the hair flow in a more natural way. I also suggest spending more time practicing detail shading. It looks like you just went in and tried to do generic shading on everything, ignoring a light source. Keep the light source in mind, and keep in mind the details of the picture. Also, some of your lines are messy, double check them! It would be very easy to fix, but make sure you check for it. Your shading is also very faint in some places, don't be afraid to be bold, try to use colors deeper than your original color for shadows, and colors fainter for your highlights. Quote: Colorists name: Kryren 1-10 Rating: 4.5 Comment: I like how you did the gray hair in the 2nd example. Like Farnath, you seem to just be throwing highlights and shadows in random places to say you've highlighted and shaded your picture, except I can see more effort in yours. 3nodding Look at a real picture with shading/highlighting and then look at your picture. You'll see the major difference. Also, pay close attention to the eyes... Look at your eyes in a mirror. See the white part? You should try to make sure you put the white in the eyes of your pictures, because it looks strange if you don't. Quote: Colorists name: [~Balmung~] 1-10 Rating: 4 Comment: You're off to a good start, I suggest a little more definition to your coloring though. Quote: Colorists name: [~Balmung~] 1-10 Rating: 4 Comment: You are definately worth the price you are offering... ^^; ...but yes, you seem to have a fair understanding of coloring, now i suggest experiementing to try and up the quality of your pictures some more :3 Quote: Colorists name: Balmung 1-10 Rating: 4 Comment: You use texture, which is good, but a more subtle use of it would probably work better, and don't forget to shade the texture, as well. The cell shading is crisp and pretty accurate. Add some more, though, in more places where shadows would be, not just on the far side of the image where the light isn't. Also, use colors that aren't so glaring (as in, saturated). Desaturating an image is often a good move. Quote: Colorists name: [~Balmung~] 1-10 Rating: 3 Comments: You're on a good start. Add more shadows to the ones you already have to give your picture depth. Maybe, soften the colors a bit so they aren't so bright. Quote: Colorists name: [~Balmung~] 1-10 Rating: 2 Comment: Relying on filters and image affects to color is BAD. If you want to make an affect in a drawing- make it yourself! It will take maybe fifteen minutes longer unless the picture is huge, and will look a million times better. Quote: Colorists name: [~Balmung~] 1-10 Rating: 2 Comment: Try not to rely on programmed textures though, it looks almost too uniform. Also! If you have photoshop, then I highly suggest using the multiply setting on you lines. Just try it, you'll see what I mean. Your colors are extremly saturated, try to cap that a little so that the picture doesn't blind anyone, saturated colors can be good though, in moderation. Just play with it, you have great potential, you just need practice. I also suggest toying with different shading styles, so far you have the general idea, the shading is in the right places, the picture just needs more depth, and don't be afraid to shade! Just keep practicing, I have utter confidence that you will improve with practice and experimentation. Quote: Colorists name: [-~=Balmung=~-] 1-10 Rating: 3 Comment: You colour OVER the lines, not in them. You should look at a few cell-shading tutorials and learn how they cell-shade without going over the lines. Your cell shading isn't too too bad, but it could use some work. Try adding highlights, too. Lighter then the bass colour, but not white. Also, try making your shadows darker. I'm not exactly a cell-shading expert, but I think your cell shading would look better with darker highlights.
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Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2005 9:15 pm
CelriaPost your form above the rest of the forms and below the name. Quote: Colorists name: Celria 1-10 Rating: 4 Comment: Your shading seems.... wishy-washy is the only word I can think of to describe it. Be strong! Be bold! Put some highlights in! Experiment, and don't be afraid to just go crazy with the contrast. It might turn out sucky the first few times, but at least you'll benefit from trying out a different style. Quote: Colorists name: Celria 1-10 Rating: 5 (but 9on cool randomy backgrounds XD) Comment: [link]your random effect backgrounds are cool! :3 why don't you say your willing to sell those by themself? I'm quite sure people will like them :3 for your coloring, I'd say, try to shade, according to the shape of the figure, not, highlight this side and shade the other... that just doesn't wrk out so well. Increase your contrast too while coloring, makes it more dynamic and less washed out, its amazing what a li8ttle contrast can do 0.o Quote: Colorists name: Celria 1-10 Rating: 4 Comment:Sadly, there are only 2 samples. The cel-shaded ones looks undone, and the smooth shaded one is much too light. The shadow's/hihglights only hug the edgues, giving the picture a beveled look rather than a 3-D look. Quote: Colorists name: Celria 1-10 Rating: 3 Comment: I'd concentrate on making shadows darker and highlights brighter. Everything looks very flat. But you do a nice job of not coloring outside the lines or missing spots. Quote: Colorists name: Celria 1-10 Rating: 3 Comments: The coloring overall is done neatly, the shading neats to be enhanced. It hardly looks like there is anything there unless you look really closely. Quote: Colorists name: Celria 1-10 Rating: 6 Comment: The second example is beautiful, but it appears to be the only one of that quality. More coloring like that, and you'll be an expert in no time. Do work on making shadows deeper though. Quote: Colorists name: Celria 1-10 Rating: 2 Comment: You need more examples. The one's that you have are very flat. Verrry flat. They almost apear not to be shaded in some places. Work at adding more depth to your pictures, and keep in mind a light source. But the main thing I stress is MORE EXAMPLES! It's really hard to make a definate judgement off of the few you have. Quote: Colorists name: Celria 1-10 Rating: 3.5 Comment: I think you should work on cell-shading instead of soft-shading. What you did so far in that picture is an awesome start. Don't give up! blaugh Continue to add dark shadows and lighter highlights. Your colour choices are good as well. Quote: Colorists name:QueenofShaniqwaland 1-10 Rating: 5 Comment: Your pieces are great, very vibrant and bold, but they look very... marker-ed in, almost, because it's very airbrush-y and it almost looks like you have the opacity turned down and the strokes are bleeding into each other. It isn't so bad on the first one but the second one is quite noticeable. Also, watch your shading colors. Quote: Colorists name:QueenofShaniqwaland 1-10 Rating: 5 Comment: your highlights... have this tendency... to bend away from eachother... the shoulder's lightsources seem to be away from the, the faces and body usually head on, and top of the a head, lightsource from the top... keep a consistant lightsource in mind :3 Quote: Colorists name:QueenofShaniqwaland 1-10 Rating: 6 Comment: I think the smooth shaded ones seem to be kinda sloppy or rushed. The strokes did not convey folds, but rather sort of sloppy strokes, and i get the impression you're using the burn tool =(. I like the cel-shaded ones though. Quote: Colorists name: QueenofShaniqwaland 1-10 Rating: 7 Comment: A couple of your pieces were really GREAT, with detailed shading on the anatomy and very smooth blending, but others were kind of sloppy. I didn't let that hurt the rating, too much, but it would have been higher eek Anything you put time into turns out fantastic. Quote: Colorists name: QueenofShaniqwaland 1-10 Rating: 7 Comments: Okay, you have some that are really awesome. Everything is just right, the shading, the blend. Some of your other ones could have been better, but otherwise it looks okay. Quote: Colorists name: QueenofShaniqwaland 1-10 Rating: 7 Comment: It looks like you rely a lot on your smudge tool, without going back to cover up the traces. But it's still beautiful despite that. Quote: Colorists name: QueenofShaniqwaland 1-10 Rating: 7 Comment: Some of your pictures seem sloppy, though others look like you put a lot of time into them and they turned out great. Your blending could also use some work. Don't blend to much, but also make sure not to underblend, try and find a balance. Also, I suggest practicing on your hair shading. Experiment with new styles until you find a few that work well. Quote: Colorists name: QueenofShaniqwaland 1-10 Rating: 7 Comment: Omg... That tiger chick thing you coloured is the BOMB! Omg, it's so awesome. I love it!!! With that piece alone, I'd give you a 8.5. It's freakin' awesome. Alas, not all your pictures are all that awesome. You show a lot of inconsistency with your colouring. One piece will be great and another will be not so great. I think you should stick to anthro's and whatnot, though, because what you did with that tiger lady was *amazing*.
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Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2005 9:26 pm
I'll do my ratings and comments later so people don't know it's me domokun
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Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2005 9:42 pm
can an example of what exactly needs to be done? im a tad confused..
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Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2005 10:12 pm
Sora Icefreeze can an example of what exactly needs to be done? im a tad confused.. Yup. See under where it says their name you write the form and fill it in. Do that for every member apart from yourself.
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Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2005 2:50 am
~is curious of she's allowed to post in here~ Can you change the griffin birdy example to http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v512/Or4ng3_1337n3ss/Other stuff/Sunsetchick.png that? I did the birdy thing like... 10 years ago... And the sunset chick is my newest example, so I rather people look at that. And for the chibi one with the pets, I LOVE how the pets turned out, but please don't look at the chibi because I did that awhile ago as well. I improve a lot in short periods of time because I'm new at coloring, so I want to make sure people are rating me on my newest stuff, not my old stuff since it's not good... at all... *cries* I wish I got my WIP done... It's coming out really well. I'm editing it a lot more since my friend pointed out some things I should have changed. 3nodding
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