TakeOverWorld's Art thingy (uh, critique please?)

[TakeOverWorld]

Hello
Okay, so I'm not the best at drawing backgrounds. I'm just about better than the worst. But I decided, you know, practice makes perfect, so I decided to draw some I might use for a future VN I might make.

That's the (very rough) sketch I'm using to colour in the background... It's meant to be a giant statue of a (very stylized) bunny, viewed from below, then I thought it might look bare, so I added trees.

.... And that's how far I've gotten at the moment, doing that tree. I've been using tutorials found on DeviantArt to do the tree... But, ah, it looks a bit weird.

[Hayzel]

the sky looks real O.O When I first looked at it I thought it was a picture !!! That's pretty amazing

[MaiMai]

Are you using Photoshop clouds? Because I honestly don't recommend that if you're going to CG everything else. Still I do like the blue/blue gray gradient you've got going there, it's pretty atmospheric.

[TakeOverWorld]

Yeah, I am using photoshop clouds. Thanks for the advice, I'll find another way to do the clouds

[TakeOverWorld]

So I tried another way of doing the clouds..... I think it came out alright, bearing in mind theres going to be a statue thingy in the middle of the picture anyways.

These are also some character sketches I drew yesterday. The woman on the left is meant to be slightly muscular... or stocky, or something.

[TakeOverWorld]

Sorta triple post now :/

Eitherways, her's a pic. It's the MC of a VN I'm working on. It'd be the side image when I make it smaller. I think the head's a tad too big, though.

[Abeiramar]

So I tried another way of doing the clouds..... I think it came out alright, bearing in mind theres going to be a statue thingy in the middle of the picture anyways.

bunny concept bg copy.jpg

These are also some character sketches I drew yesterday. The woman on the left is meant to be slightly muscular... or stocky, or something.

chara1.jpg

The sky looks much better, however the tree looks very strange. Tree branches are more like this:

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Your characters are looking very thin here .

Sorta triple post now :/

Eitherways, her's a pic. It's the MC of a VN I'm working on. It'd be the side image when I make it smaller. I think the head's a tad too big, though.

iona normal.png

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Good work! The shading of her hair is excellent !! I think your color choice is great.
My advice is to add a stronger shading to the eyes and white dots to make them shine! (Eyes are shiny~)

Triple post? Well, this forum is getting kinda dead, maybe because it's summer...

[KuruKuru]

I really like how the clouds turned out in the second picture.
It seems to go along with the feel of your characters and the sketches better then the first, and gives a gentler feel to the picture.
Plus, the coloring of your character is good.

[TakeOverWorld]

Thanks for the responses

The sky looks much better, however the tree looks very strange. Tree branches are more like this:

Yeah, I thought the tree looked strange but I've decided to re plan the background anyways, as it doesn't look good with a sprite in front of it.

Your characters are looking very thin here .

Ah, whenever I draw people, they always end up on the skinny side, even when I attempt to draw people slightly more stocky .

Good work! The shading of her hair is excellent !! I think your color choice is great.
My advice is to add a stronger shading to the eyes and white dots to make them shine! (Eyes are shiny~)

Thank you I'll do that next time - I find it hard to shade eyes, because I don't really have my own way to do it at the moment.

I really like how the clouds turned out in the second picture.
It seems to go along with the feel of your characters and the sketches better then the first, and gives a gentler feel to the picture.
Plus, the coloring of your character is good.

Thank you