Hi! I love the ideas and emotions behind your artwork! Very deep and so much more interesting then the masses of meaningless 'art' you see around. My comments for improving your art would be to attempt shading and coloring too if your up for it. I'm a color junkie tho so however i think some serious shading would to a lot to breath life and power into your artwork. Maybe thats not your style tho... also inking over the lines and stylizing the pictures a bit would give added oumph (is that how u say it?) lol well anyway... best of luck to you and hope to see more art from you soon!
If you peeked at my Cat girl comments area, you see I was telling some one else that well color doesn't like me that much. How ever I am not bellow at lest trying it out. So who knows maybe I will come back with a few of these colored. But any way it goes thankyou so much for your comments and helpfull idea's.

Hi and welcome to the woods!
I think you got potential,you should continue practicing and post more . The tips I'll gave you its 1, try to do a little more shading, sometimes it can make all the difference! and 2, try to do more definites muscle... I mean, more round curves. Keep it up!

Birch Anthony Patalon (Tony) replies: "Mussle Huh, well my art teacher I had last year tryed to teach me something about that. Witch is why I have a whole bunch of comics now. He kept telling me how overly do the bodys on some comic book characters are, and how the good for people like me. By looking at the art in there, witch IS done by pro's and then trying to draw what they did. I learn to draw like them as I try to figure out how they had drawn that. It really is rather fun to take a comic book, and trace out a pic then try to draw it agian and again better and better by my self. I have alot of self teaching ideas for my self, not that much of any of them have been used while being distraced by college work. But maybe with more time we will see a mussle like one or two up here soon."

Seams kind of silly to put a coment on my own site, but to any who wounder in I do have a question. And that is how do I draw lighting? Where do I start, like out in the middle or at the base, where? What tips do you have for drawing it? Thankfull for any help.

Hey lighting is easy just start at the bottom tip and work your way up OK? i have a friend that is an artist if you wont i will try to get him to talk to you he is really good well got to go bye.

You do have potential.. your art teacher must not have been a very good one... no offence. keep at it! remember this is constructive not a put down! I suggest sketching a drawing everyday. buy some books on shading, and on fantasy art. also you should try and do a background and put some more meaning into your art. emotion is everything. that is what art is, emotions expressed through drawing. the better the drawing, the more attention it gets which leads to more emotion. think it through ^.^

Hi I'd take the advises of ur art teacher, I think he know what he's talking about, cuz I have to admit, did it the same way. U just have to get familiar with the anatomy of the human body, comic books are a good way to get a clue but not the best, cuz many comic book artist to know it themself. Only the good one's do sketching is a very good way to start a drawing, this way u can still change things and start thinking about what u r doing. (needed to learn this myself too And to your question: again have to say sketching would be a good way, first think about where the light comes from, set a light source some where in the picture and then start adding shadows to your characters by using the light source. And if u don't know how the shadow should be cast just look for other pictures to get it.

Anyway keep up the good stuff

hey.. i.. uh googled you... are you cedar's brother by any chance? if so i haven't heard from you guys on a long time..if not then e mail me back to call me crazy..hehe

-Mary-

i have a little tip..if you have problems with the detail or angle...turn the picture you want to draw upside-down...that way your eye doesn't try to look at everything at once.... you can get better detail that way.... and if you're thinking of using color, but don't want to risk your drawing on it... draw a copy of your own artwork...that way you can practice and fine-tune your drawings...then color the one you like the least... that way if you don't like it.. you won't be bummed about throwing it away

-Mary

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