Hey Daniele. I know you from Elftown, Kay555. You know me. *Cackles* But, I won't say my name. If you guess it...Three cheers! Heh.

Anyway, I really do like your art. But first, constructive critism.

You have great potential. But, practice and you will get better. Anyway, Now, I'm pretty sure that a lot say the eyes are bigger. Well, think of it this way, some anime have overly large eyes as the style. So it is your style. But, one thing that would help a lot. Do draw the nose a ltitle smaller. Don't make the bridge of the nose. Just the little nose part itself.

And now the other thing I've grown to notice. Your eyes, other than the largeness, which is okay, it's a style. So, I'm not going to bother about that. I myself like it. The eyes are too close together. That's a nono in anime. This might help. Your eyes should be far apart enough to be able to put a third eye perfectly between the two eyes. Hope that helps. It did me. *Smiles weakly*

And, great art! Keep up the good work.

Kago..Er, Kara

Daniele L. Smith replies: "^_^ *smiles back at her* Thank you for the additional nose comment, but as for the eyes one, I've already taken it to heart, and any work you see here is stuff either inked, so I can't change it, or old. However, you've already told me in another place, and gotten a reply, so it CAN'T be that you don't think I heard you. Now I just wonder-is it I who you try to inform of my shortcomings or the general public?"

Your stuff ain't bad.

Daniele L. Smith replies: "woot! *does a victory dance* ain't bad! I've achieved AIN'T BAD!!*climbs to the top of the building* YOU HEAR THAT, WORLD?! AIN'T BAD! EAT YOUR HEART OUT, PEOPLE WHO EAT THEIR HEARTS OUT!! hehe... i'm just a little happy off of cold medicine... pay me no mind... jk jk, thank you."

Hahahahah!! Lerv the theif and the kiss! Heeheeheehee!!! Reely like yer work!!!

Daniele L. Smith replies: "*leaps and hugs* thank you!!"

Happy New Year,Daniele*Sarabi licks Daniele*

Daniele L. Smith replies: "Arg! *falls back* COOTIES!!"

Sarabi:*grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr*Greggarabi don't growl at Daniele she's a friend of ours!

Got some intersting subjects. Average rather than bad, definately (reference to previous comment). I see you love anime. Anime is cool. Definately take the spacing of the eyes comment to heart - even the professionals in japan follow the rules. Remember, bigger isn't necessarily better. My prime recommendation would be to take a break from anime and try drawing realism a while. Or at least sketching it. Even Anime artists can draw realism, that's how they're taught. You'd probably find it'd help you immensely in making beautiful anime drawings. Another recommendation - Study the composition and the colouring of anime, and try and see if you can work them in. Japanese anime is known for its gorgeous compositions and well rendered backgrounds, for all most people think of it as being known for wild hair styles and eyes

Daniele L. Smith replies: "Thankees, I guess. I already have. Most of the stuff on this page is super-old, as I hate it now, really... I just refuse to upload a new one, and deleting something... Um... Let's just say, I refuse to do it. Occasionally, yes, I do 'dabble' (cough) in realism, but I don't post it up here because it's not fantasy/sci-fi. I'm WORKING on backgrounds... God, how I hate the extra work, but I AM working on it..."

Okay, just a word from the artist.

This is mostly REALLY old stuff. I mean, my style is MUCH improved, if that says much for my current 'talent'. The angel picture, the one with the stars, is the best example of that here. If you feel like making mean comments or even politely critiquing me on anything, remember that I will be like 'yeah, I know that and that and that... Anything currently wrong you'd like me to fix?' Just to let you know.

For those of you who like positive "I luv it!" comments, you're cool. Mainly because I look back and go "har! I can do better than that..."

Oh, and go to http://theoc.keenspace.com/

My online comics, entitled Off Campus!

-ze artiste

Beautiful work. I get the feeling that you've got a lot of talent in color that hasn't been tapped into yet. TAP IT!

All your pieces have a very characteristic emotional feel to them. I love it when I see an artist who really, genuinely has his or her own style that can't quite be matched. Keep it up!

Daniele L. Smith replies: "*blushes* Thank you so much! I promise to color more-I've had to do that more anyways, but sometimes your confidence goes down when you see a bunch of people with photoshop...? I don't know, but I will definitely practice! Thank you (again)!"

Thanks Dani! Good to see you. Kinda. ^_^;;
Wish we could "watch" people here like on dA... guess I'll just have to add you to my links up top.

can u do more centaur art