[Manga] The vampire duchess

[Pash]

Ohh syphilis360 :(

Ive been guilty of this in the past myself as well, sticking with a style of something that is completely uninteresting.

The style you are chosing here is completely boring, the shapes, the colours, the whole composition is just not pleasing on the eye at all. I wan't to run my eye over it some more but I can't because I just don't like it and I can tell you now, 99% of your audience will feel the same.

Neat vector images with sharp colours and lines are good for website graphics, and thats all. Unfortunately this wouldnt even work as a website graphics because your proportions are all off.

Please please move along and start to produce some interesting art.

[Helenlyn]

Since you have so much time (30 hours) to spend on an art project, I suggest putting more thought into how you can convey your ideas in a more aesthetically pleasing way.

Art is about expressing yourself, but if you're going to show it to other people, you need to find a way to express it in a way they'll understand.

I see a blue, misproportioned girl on a chair flanked by two polka-dot faces. If that was what you were trying to convey, congratulations!

It's just hard to give feedback on something I can't understand.

[EndoTouch]

Its very well composed and holds the eye very well, but its so very abstract. Abstract can be good but to add to the abstract you have cartoon styling (it is not very Japanese it looks more like cartoons here in North America) mixed with a personified fruit, vectors, and half tone. I think you've just gone too far into too many things.

[CybrGfx]

This shows true technical skill on SO many levels, digitally, it is almost breath taking.

Then, all that skill is wadded up an thrown at the viewer in such an overworked effort to be unusual and avante garde, that it just ends up too busy and yes, ultimately boring. Pity.
2 for 2, now.
~C

[DArcy1]

Hi

OK, as Cybr said, this shows some real skills - The graphic elements are cool. I think part of the problem is that they look like graphic elements...and to the untutored eye they look like clipart. It's like using filters and textures - just tossed on the page they look artificial and not artistic.

My second thought, and this is true for your last piece as well, is that the quality of the painting portion of the image doesn't match up to those graphics. For example, the eyes and the teeth of the right-hand pumpkin are very uneven - almost looks like your little brother put graffiti on your nice vector graphics. Even if you stay with this mixed approach, I think you need to put more practice into developing those painting skills.

Finally, as others have noted, it just doesn't look much like what you say it is. She just doesn't look like a vampire, and those pumpkins..well...

So my best piece of advice is 2-fold:

First, don't give up, don't stop painting. Post another. And another.

Second, this is a WIP forum, so post your WIP steps, not the final image. You will get feedback much earlier in your process, before you've put so much time and emotion into your image (which makes it really hard when you have to make major changes).

D'Arcy

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