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Published: 2009-11-28 20:59:19 +0000 UTC; Views: 1296; Favourites: 41; Downloads: 34
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EDIT 12/1/09: Messed with the colors a little bit and fixed up a couple lines that were bothering me. Other than that, nothing really different.Well here's a picture of Sakura I did last night. Took me about 3 hours to do it. I finished it at like 3 am, so I decided not to upload it until now. =_= I swear Sakura's wooden sandals were a fucking BITCH to draw... -_-||| But I'm proud! It looks really good for my first time drawing a kimono, wooden sandals, sake bottles and cups, designs, and someone in a running position. Well, it looks good to me, at least... -_-
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It's been a while since I last critiqued someone's work. This really deserves it. I'm going to be taking off my naruto fan art supporter hat and replacing it with my nit picky artist/asshole hat. You have been warned.
First I want to mention how proud I am of your greatly improved artistic skills. You went from doodling pencil sketches to fully coloring them in such a short time. I totally expect you to only get better in time.
Line Art Style
I love it, its very clean. Simple and direct to the point. Its not as great as the original manga but it has a life of its own. Which all fan art should strive for.
Colors
Once again very simple and easy on the eye. A little dull but still appealing.
Perspective
Very 2d-ish but contained in its own universe it works.
Suggestions & Other thoughts
Just like if a movie is without sound it feels incomplete. So is an character without a background. A good background sets the mood, timing of day/night, seasons, events/occasions etc etc. Even if you haven't ever done one, the effort would be greatly better then not trying at all. Some times misc props behind / infront of her could do the same trick. Its to help "finish" the image as a whole.
Regarding your color palette... expanding it sometimes is not always a good thing, but when you are only using 5 colors + plus black, you really should consider it. The eye can see almost a billion different shades of color. and I think it can recognize quite alot in 1 view. So to keep the eye "entertained" adding more colors usually fulfills that role. When you do characters images like this one, aim for atleast 10 or 12 colors.
Conclusion
Im very happy to see you are greatly improving your skills as an artist. The lineart is very clean and crisp. It would do you good if you started applying backgrounds. Your colors are good, but need a little more polish. Your perspective is flat but constant.
If you work on these fields you will only get vastly better in a very short time.
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-nods- I see where you're coming from. I will indeed consider all of this when I work on my next one! Thank you so much, Naruto-kun!
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Wow, you did great on this one, the details especially (the design on the dishes are my favorite)
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can you make hinata and tenten in the same picture trying to hold a huge tray (like the one's in restuants "the huge round one's ")with lots of dishes on it while sakura laughs' a few plates and bowls fall off
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I can't. I'm very busy and I don't do requests.
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That s Cute! X3 & I bet cha the sandal s Was a pain in the ass to do! O_O Hm I feel ya pain kind of XD Lol X3 Cuz I didn t draw it! X3
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Thankies! And yes the sandals were such a freakin' pain! D:
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ya welcome & I see Itt looked Hard! O_O Hm Wanna be friend s if ya dont mine X3 Hm Oh & Tal kI m T_T Hmm So Freaking Bored! DX< X3 Hm
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OMG! THIS IS THE BEST DAY EVER! FIRST KAKASHI BECOMES HOKAGE THEN YOU CRITIQUED MY ART!
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question , why note darw sakura and fuu in half like you got sakura her and do fuu the same way in the other half , like this link but standing up with the same sandals ?
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nah. i dont like drawing like that. :/
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I don't know how you understood that. o.O
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neither do i... xD but i did. xD
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i see you took a page out of shampooo , from tracing fuu it looks like but fuu nevers runns like that but it dose looks like sakura might fall down and break an ankle with those sandals, by the ay what rama shop is she working at??? is she severing naurto up to 2 dishes of rama and saki?
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what? xD and she's working part time at this fancy restaurant that requires her to wear that outfit. xD
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sure looks alot like fuu a bit
to me
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i have no idea who you're talking about. 
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i mean the girl from samrai shampoo sakura looks alot alike
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sakura dose look alot like fuu right
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lol, is she a whore? 'cause in Japan, if women wear kimonos with the sash tied in the front, that means they're whores. xD
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