well i think you should have used a lighter color for the outline or inside O_o. I would pay 5.5 mill- 7.5mill?

I think 1-5mil is absolutely fine, and it would be reasonable for you to get even more for it depending on the amount of time and effort you put into this. It is a great work of art. I rather like that you have the dark outline against the grey - it makes for great contrast. I love the perspective as well. And honestly, I LOVE the paws. 

This is truly remarkable. 

Okay, I have a few problems with this. Namely the lighting and shading, perspective and the anatomy.

The light source is very confused and unclear. You have light coming from all sorts of directions, having the other parts of the body not react to those light sources and having seperate light sources themselves. Lighting is very important in art, and it is important that you make the source of light clear. This is a mistake that most beginners make, so it's fine bro. I don't blame you ;D
 
A tip to get lighting right:
Stand back (well, this is easy when you're on the computer, just zoom out a load) from your painting or drawing or whatever and see if it looks good from afar. Adjust things if you think the amount of light or the colour is wrong.

Another tip would be to draw an arrow on your page signalling the light source. Then you won't forget and know how to positing shades and highlights fairly easily.

Okay, the next problems are the anatomy and perspective. There are actually several problems with the anatomy and I think this was caused by the fact that you drew it in 3/4. It's easy to know how something looks in profile and front view, but when you change that angle, you can cause a load of problems.

Here's a tutorial I made for you explaining things:


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Look at this muscle diagram. Yeah, use it as reference. I feel that you knew where the muscle were but you made them too bid. Never try to make muscles too big unless you want them to look like they're on steroids.

Tips:
Practice a lot, don't bother colouring or anything. Just cover the areas that you are unfamiliar with. Never use a medium that you are unfamiliar with when you are practicing things like anatomy and stuff. If you're comfortable with using a pencil, then use it. When trying out a new medium, choose a subject you're comfortable with. I always use goldfish.

If you're confused, get a photo as reference. Don't copy it but look at it and sort of base what you draw on it. Using references is always a good thing to do, not knowing how something looks like in real life isn't great. Even though you're doing something abstract, you need to know how things look like in real life.

Screw 'draw what you see not what you think you see'. That's for boring people who do still lifes, it's stifling creativity. Everytime I do a still life, I put my subject on a table behind me, really far and I take peeks once in a while. It's brain training and it allows me to manipulate what I saw a bit more. All you need to know is that you think what you think you see is correct (if that makes sense) and that you know how to manipulate anatomy and stuff.

Thanks for all the comments guys~ I forgot to subscribe and when I saw the comments I felt all warm and fuzzy inside >.<

-downloaded and saved Ping's tutorial- really appreciate it. again. :)

also ping; do you have any other pre made tutorials? :'D

Yeah, but I don't know where I put them xD

I really only make them for people on res. There are loads somewhere hidden in the artgen forum ;D


Tutorials:
http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg100/HappyVeggies/asdjasdjioajsdoajtuutrhuth.png
http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg100/HappyVeggies/torsotutcopy.png
http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg100/HappyVeggies/bobooasdjkas.png

If you scroll down a bit on this, there's a tutorial on how I paint:
http://www.rescreatu.com/forum/cat/arts/artgen/critique-wanted/~page/1/

This was a thread for people to ask each other questions concerning art and where I offer general advice:
http://www.rescreatu.com/forum/cat/arts/artgen/having-troubles-/~page/1/

Hrm... That's about all I could find, most of them were redlines.
Oh yeah, I also found this while digging around my photobucket account xD

http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg100/HappyVeggies/wtfbbq.png


Anyways. If you want me to help you with anything or redline/critique your work, don't hesitate to ask me ;D

thanks ping :) I'll send you an rmail if i'm having trouble.

I finished this one last night. took about 15 minutes.

and this one was finished 15 minutes ago. took about half an hour. Which version looks better?

You've improved a lot ;D
But I feel that you may have misunderstood some things. So I'll redline your drawings and point out the mistakes.


If you've noticed, I used a lot of photos as reference. Make sure you look at photos to get a better understanding of what you're drawing.

Also, about the smudge tool. Please, it's not something you should be using. Most beginnners in digital art rely on it heavily to create textrues. You need to practive creating textures without using the smudge tool. It's a lot harder and time consuming but they alsways look way better from when you use the smudge tool. You can also build up your core skills, so it's always worth it.

When I was an arrogant 12 year old, I used to abuse the smuudge tool a lot. I've since moved on and I hardly ever use the thing. But I've learnt so many skills from not using the smudge tool!

12 years old


16 years old (I'm 17 now though xD).
I did not use the smudhe tool at all in this painting.

thanks again! I have trouble with legs and paws >.< quick question though - in the last pic in the tutorial, what's the tool that you circled? xD

The smudge tool. It looks like a hand pointing a finger ;D

here are three more.

Sorry for the stretching >.<