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Drake Blademaster · Post by **Drake Blademaster** » April 26th, 2007, 3:54 am

I agree. very good.

Freighter · Post by **Freighter** » April 26th, 2007, 5:14 am

it's probably just my opinion but the ribbon on the left arm seems to throw the picture out of balance. i would try to replace it with something more subtle like a bracelet

other than that excelent

General Mac · Post by **General Mac** » April 26th, 2007, 2:33 pm

Very nice Redeth

Changeling · Post by **Changeling** » April 26th, 2007, 9:21 pm

I disagree with Freighter.

And i also wanted continue with the trend of Very Happy

. It looks finished.

Freighter · Post by **Freighter** » April 27th, 2007, 12:10 am

Changeling wrote:I disagree with Freighter

as i said it's probably just my opinion. Still, it looks good.

Smiley trend continued

Drake Blademaster · Post by **Drake Blademaster** » April 27th, 2007, 12:41 am

Changeling · Post by **Changeling** » April 27th, 2007, 2:24 am

AGAIN!

AGAIN!.... and so the legend continues

Post by **Thrawn** » April 27th, 2007, 3:06 am

this is art contribution, not off topic.

please stop the useless spamming

Rocket Slug · Post by **Rocket Slug** » April 27th, 2007, 3:07 am

Freighter wrote:it's probably just my opinion but the ribbon on the left arm seems to throw the picture out of balance. i would try to replace it with something more subtle like a bracelet

other than that excelent

I still say that the "sleeve" (don't know the technical term for it) messes with the contours of the arm. Fix that, and I think the "balance" issue will be resolved.

The face's been fixed. If Battlestar wants to tweak it to his liking, then go ahead. I agree with Shadow Master. He's trying to draw a portrait for one of the most beautiful units in Wesnoth. We're going to critique this thing to death since the guys here will probably want it to look as nice as possible.

battlestar · Post by **battlestar** » May 6th, 2007, 4:50 pm

I treasure the great suggestions but I'm not very good at revising the face after the body is done. I greatly value all of your support on this picture. The way I draw is from eyes->face->body, and I'm not very good at working at it backwards. Especially that it takes a lot of time for me to revise the face, longer than for me to draw an entire new picture. As for personal artistic development, I'll seek improvement by draw new pictures when I have time on my hands with those suggestions in mind.

Unless there's an overwhelming concensus on wanting to see this completed, I'll reconsider or draw a new version from scratch.
If someone wants to take over, that would be fine with me as well, or consider Redeth's version to be final.

Post by **Sgt. Groovy** » May 6th, 2007, 5:58 pm

You have the general concept nailed down pretty good, so I do recommend a new version from scratch. Redrawing things is never a wasted effort, the only way to get good at anything is by hard practice, including practicing the same thing over again.

Post by **Iris** » May 7th, 2007, 5:28 pm

Believe me, I'll keep a copy of one of the old drafts in the golden partition of my disk.

Ronin Teturo · Post by **Ronin Teturo** » May 7th, 2007, 7:33 pm

battlestar wrote:The way I draw is from eyes->face->body, and I'm not very good at working at it backwards.

I used to have this same approach, and invaribly, the same issues. Once I realized that the eyes are the soul of any piece and reversed my work order, a lot of issues resolved themselves. Your mileage may vary, but it's worth a try the next time you're playing around with a concept.

I like this a lot so far. Battlestar, do you mind if I take a crack at coloring Redeth's version?

battlestar · Post by **battlestar** » May 8th, 2007, 6:49 am

feel free

Post by **irrevenant** » May 12th, 2007, 4:24 am

Redeth's revised face looks very cool. However in that version (and some of the ones before it) all the moving of the head seems to have left the neck size or positioning or something off. IMO, her neck looks too wide and stocky.