Anime that was horrible and now better

[tehGDS]

こんにちは！はじめまして？
私 は やまと です。 どうぞようろしく。

Hi there, I'm Yamato, nice to meet you.

Introductions
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Hi guys, some of you know me as Yamato from competetive Battling, Ayato in PHO (Sorry sometimes I'm too rude hahah) and Jason in real life or Facebook.
I study Music as well as drawing and I sure hope it's not as bad as I think it is.. Brass instruments are hard hahah. Apart from studying Music and other fun stuff, I'm currently studying for my SAT's and other things.. I aim to have AP classes and currently an overachiever. I hope that doesn't go.. I like trying lol.

I used to draw badly, until I shut my mouth, learned how to draw, and started actually trying.

Without furthur ado, let's begin!

Now to Actual Art
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Something gay xD

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Winterville ;)

Does this look like me?

Springtime in Spring Village (one of my personal best ^ ^)

Harusawa's family

The backround looks bad in the battlefield (Battle Frontier)..

Hopefully I can script that (HELP!)

Still working on some of the Actual art. So guys, what do you think of it? ^ ^

Karate and Kendo, My yang (The empty hand and the way of the sword, my Ying)

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Heaven (..I'm inspired)

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My Party (Good things come in threes) (Sun abusers)

Okay..
so that's sort of all lol

Art Updates
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Art Update 7/12/11
Art Update 7/15/11

Other notes (Cross out means accomplished)
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OW's are being changed so it doesn't look circular! Please wait (7/12/11)
Drawing! There will be an update for all of you guys, thanks. (7/16/11)

 

[竜の子]

First things first. Y0u could say watashi wa yamato desu or Watashi no namae wa yamato desu but not watashi name wa yamato desu.

THe proprtions of the trainers sprites are freaky (small head large body)
Fakemon are okay
Facial expressions also need some work(Sherrian expression for example)
Some faces look like balls instead of ovaloids

Hope I helped

 

[tehGDS]

Lol thanks ^ ^ I'll try harder to fix the proportions and thanks for the Japanese lesson, lol

 

[champagnepapi]

Your art looks pretty good, Aye. I like what you're doing with the traditional art, especially the fox picture, but try defining the noses of your characters more. I like your mugshots, especially the one of the Cherrim girl, but look at how the official mugshots are made and tailor yours to what they look like. For the trainer sprites, I'd do the same, they aren't sprited in the same way as Game Freak's trainers, so you may want to look at them for reference. Other than that, keep up the good work. ^^

 

[tehGDS]

Aw thank you ^ ^ well I wasn't aiming for game freak's style tbh lol, I'm making them look like adults, since they're not 10 years olds anymore, Most of them are 20, however, I see what you mean, some of the sprites REALLY need to be worked on.. D: I'm improving on the regular art as well next time you'll see some realistic looks ;)

The noses, I agree I'm still changing everything, it's a bit small lol

And also thank you all for the crits, I really needed that, I'm updating the graphics as I type lol, ouch..

 

[Anastasia.R]

Is it okay if you can remove your pixel art from here? You can post a new gallery for your Pixel art in the Pixel art board if you want! We just don't want graphics, photography and sprite to mix up with the Art Gallery board too much. =]​

 

[tehGDS]

Oi, I didn't know I'm so sorry! ^ ^ Alright thanks I'll sure do that

 

[Trent_Jayir]

Hi GDS.
I think I remember you from a while back, and from what I can recall you certainly have improved, so first I want to say Congrats for working hard and going somewhere! :')

I really do like how you experiment with different poses for your characters, and portray something about them through that. It's nice to see also that you work with full colour and backgrounds, you're not lazy, heheh.

Well, while that's all good, I really wanted to say that you should try and work on your lines. They're pretty sketchy. I mean, you put all that effort into the lovely backgrounds, but the lines can really let it down! I hope you can see what I mean, they seem like you could get a much better overall effect if you spent time polishing the lines into smoother, maybe thicker shapes with a bit of line variation too, perhaps. I find lines a bit tedious myself, but honestly I think experimenting with different brush strokes in your line art will really help you now. Maybe find an artist you like and emulate their style of lines? Just to start maybe that would be good.

Other than that, anatomy anatomy anatomy! I see it's been mentioned before but anatomy is a real pig to get right. (Well, it's difficult to even get it to be convincing.. argh.) You tend to make the eyes too far apart and the head a little too small. Look up a tutorial if you need to :') I also think maybe you make the arms and legs a bit too stocky, especially I notice on your female characters. Make your little Cherrim lady look delicate and beautiful and ethereal! I would like to see you try that kind of thing in the future. :')

Good luck and keep up the great work!

 

[tehGDS]

Oh definately! Thanks! I see what you mean some are the lines are really horrible, augh I hate my ball mouse.. oh right you're right about the anatomy, I see the head being a bit small and the eyes do look a bit far apart o.o Um I'll fix that for the humans, I'm more a fur artist now D: and thanks, I try my best with art ^ ^, I always want to shadow my favorite artists, I just started using a maniquin, I'm surprised you didn't say anything about some of the coloring though, I think it needs to get changed a bit ^ ^ The Cherrim girl also will have a tragic storyline, I guess I can draw her an outfit not so fanservice, lenghten the skirt and things lol thank you so much! I really find those critiques helpful indeed!

I also like how you actually add some compliments in there so I won't get shy-er, thank you so very much! ^ ^


Well since I came back I do have some updates, both socially and to my gallery!

I got an FA account at long last, maybe I can actually talk to Fruitz or Kuron now instead of stalking them..

and here's the artist updates!

be warned these are furries

the first one I don't really like that much, the coloring definately needs improvement, and Kenta's (the dog) sword stance is a bit weird

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A new one, I'm slightly more proud of!

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[Trent_Jayir]

Drawing with a mouse is horrible (though it works for some incredible people, who I am both in fear and awe of.) so I feel your pain. I'm quite interested to see how your hand-drawn lines look, if you have a way to get them on here please show away, (of course I know that's not as simple as it sounds so d/w if not.)
In your newest two the anatomy has improved a bit, which is great to see! I think the thing with your colouring is kind of that you have lots of tones but they have little variation between them, so the shading lacks any definition. If you look at things around you you see that some shadows are softer, like the ones you produce, but some are harsher and more contrasted. Using both of those in your colouring will really help, I think. (Without that everything can look a little... bubble-y, like it's all smooth and rounded, which can distort the shapes, if that makes sense) But yes I hope that helps you next time :')

As for the compliments thing, knowing what you do well is just as valuable as knowing what you don't!

 

[tehGDS]

Aw thank you, I also took your crits about the coloring, I do need transitions, so I changed the look of my art. So I smoothed it out and put a bit course transition shades on the shirt, I also put the eyes closer together and added a more realistic figure. The pokemon proportions are a bit tough.. some aren't proportional to the original anime but um.. it's colored in already

How'd you think?

 

[tehGDS]

Well um..

Update! Well Updates, I got an art blog, you can check it out on my sig

This one took me a long time, it's me sweating my butt off after a day.. hope you liked it lol REMEMBER it takes me a week to finish an art! So be patient on updates!

 

[Trent_Jayir]

Hey again!
The last two are better than before, which is great to see :')

I just wnated to swing by and leave your thread a comment saying keep at it! The lines are smoother and the shading is looking better, but keep going with it, I'm looking forward to your next update!

 

[tehGDS]

Thank you so very much ^ ^ I also got new updates believe it!
Well here's some updates that took me a while to make

.. here's a character

 

[tehGDS]

Wow, still no po- I mean, an update

Ray on the hill he's a character from my hack

Ray, he's supposedly me in the hack so there's this is my sig there

 

[Watertownronin]

I like these images and you have a lot of work here so I know your practicing. I would say your work will get a lot better if you begin to draw the characters through the clothes If you draw the character without the clothes some and then add the clothes to the figure. Once that's done your character will look very solid.