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Published: 2018-02-05 16:07:20 +0000 UTC; Views: 1183; Favourites: 60; Downloads: 0
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This is Laura Bailey's character in the new Critical Role D&D campaign, Jester.
I love her, she's hilariously adorable!I'm pretty proud of this, for a change. I meant to make the background transparent but that didn't work out lol.
So, it's just purple instead.~
Oh yeah and the thing behind her is the symbol of The Traveler, her deity (she's a cleric).
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This looks pretty different on my TV so I'm not sure how different it'll be across monitors, but hopefully it's not too bad.
I referenced a random pose from Google and the official art for Jester/Critical Role, and The Traveler was from a D&D wiki.
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I love this beautiful artwork so much!~ Jester is my favorite from season 2 and you render her so well!~ Laura Bailey would be so proud!~
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I really like your work here; you did a great job with the general anatomy of the pose and the shading looks very soft, but also very nicely done. I'm personally not all that familiar with the show or the character, but I like the general appeal of your image. The way you framed her with the icon is also very well done and looks neat.
I would say the purple background is a bit off to my taste, but since you originally wanted to make it transparent, I can see that would be more interesting. I'm curious why it didn't work for you; if you keep the background layer in your workfile transparent and save as a PNG in general it'll be transparent on dA as well. Maybe doublecheck your background layer; most programs make it plain white by default, by deleting this layer you can make the background transparent.
Going to her face, I like the general look you gave her, though I feel like her upper lip is perhaps a bit large. Also I would like to see her ears protrude a bit more from her head, they seem a bit thin at the moment. The horns look cool, but I would love to see them a bit thicker, especially at their bases; looking at references of the character, her horns seem like ram's horns more than anything, which are quite thick at the base.
I really like your general texture work on the hair and the horns. They give a nice impression of what they are and are great to look at. Same goes for the eyes really, they are really enchanting.
Perhaps one last thing, I'm a bit confused by the general direction of your shading/light source. The symbol in the back is shaded in such a way where the shading drops down onto it, making it seem like it's a bit of an opening in a wall or something like that, with a light source straight on. The face of the character is also shaded fairly straight on, but her body is shaded from the side instead of straight on. In general the light source isn't that big for a small image just showing off the character in an abstracted way, but it does add to the believability and general appeal of your image.
On a smaller note; with the character being framed by the heart shape, I'm almost getting an M.C. Escher feel; it feels like the character is inside the heart-shaped hole, with the beige/purple colored parts of the symbol being over top of the heart, yet the character being on top of them. It's not too bad a problem, but I think it could be fixed by framing the character with the entire shape of the symbol, rather than just the heart shape. Like I said, it's a smaller thing though.
Still a very nice image you drew here; it looks absolutely lovely. This piece really shows off your skill as an artist and I'm sure that with more practice over time you'll be able to get even better. I hope my pointers and ramblings will be useful for you in this process, and keep up the good work!
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Oh wow, thank you very much for such a detailed comment! Sorry for the late reply, but I really appreciate you taking the time to write this out. You make a lot of great points, I'm not sure if I'll come back to this one but if I ever do, or try anything similar, I will definitely keep these points in mind. Although, I'll probably try to fix the lighting, it's something I always have a problem with. Thanks again!
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You're welcome ^^ I'm glad you found my comment helpful!
I don't think it's necessary to get back to an old piece, but getting comments like this can make you think and keeping those things in mind can help you to improve with your future drawings. There is such a thing as dwelling on old pieces too much, which will often just result in noodling.
Anyway, good luck with your future projects 
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The design of Jester I like, because of its skin color, its human expression, that cold color range and those horns that come out in his head.
Also the heart fund with that kind of star gives much more prominence and termination of what is already, even reminds me of what Porky did when he finished a chapter of the Looney Tunes xD
In short, I like this drawing. Keep it up
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Haha! Now that you mention it, it does give a Looney Tunes feel. Thanks a lot for commenting, I appreciate it!
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First of all, I don't know the character or what show or game is she from so i have to look up the character and i think you did well with this Fan art, Though she look more younger compare to the artwork in the wiki that i am looking at. I like how it looks very neat and clean and i can see every details even the hair strands, its also stylish, the heart and bones fits really well with her, the face is really well made and symmetrical, the eyes are well detailed same for her lips and nose, the head look a bit too turned as her chin kinda overlap with her shoulder,though that's just i minor thing that i noticed. Now i am about to point out stuff that could improve the artwork, but keep in mind that it's base on my opinion and preference, you can ignore it if it isn't to your liking So when i first look at it i noticed that it kinda lacks a strong shading and lighting it also doesn't have any highlight and so it looks as if its lacking in depth and it's hard for me to find the light source or if there's even one, i think by adding strong shading/lighting and highlights would improve this artwork by a lot. but other than that this is a fine picture
That's it! i hope wasn't so harsh i also hope that my comment could be of help, Have a great day!
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Actually, I meant to make her look a bit more innocent here because the character feels cheery and childish to me.
So that was on purpose and I'm glad it gave you that impression.
As for the shading and light, I suppose I could have added more contrast. Lighting is something I really need to work on, that's for sure.
I'll take everything you said into consideration. Thanks a lot for your comment! It didn't come off as harsh at all, don't worry.
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The colours look good, I guess that she's a tiefling?
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I think she just leveled up to level 3?
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We usually start at this level...is she going to be a pure cleric or do you plan on adding other classes?
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She's not my character, this is just a fanart like I said in the description. She was created by Laura Bailey, a voice actress.
They stream the campaign on Twitch every Thursday here. It's pretty cool, especially if you like D&D.
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