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TeamStormbow [2017-02-13 13:14:51 +0000 UTC]

Well, I was going to comment on this, but I see 10987423870 other deviants already did...  

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okkooooooooooooooooo [2017-02-06 01:33:38 +0000 UTC]

LOVe it SO much <3

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DrWolfsea [2017-02-05 09:08:17 +0000 UTC]

Another ProjectComment 'er.

Everyone else has noted the obvious anatomy so I won't press what you're aware of. I will say that 1. Thank you for not using the GIMP lightning brushes and attempting your own, 2. Your storm clouds do set the mood for the story but your blurring is jarring and stands out in a bad way against the rest of the clouds. 3. Rain, that was touched on but you did get the fur to look clumped which if you had done little rain drops across your feline then it would have really given it that extra punch of amazingness you're trying for in the picture. 4. Flames reflecting in the eyes. Cat's eyes when they are reflecting fire, seen when my cats sit outside as we grill steaks, they have what my sister says is a green-orange reflection that has the light from the flame around the edges of the green. I can't tell due to red-green nature so trust her on that. The eyes should be narrower if the feline is close to the light source but further away you make them larger. 5. The smoke from the fires or at that point smoke/steam would be intermingled and you would need to have the smoke/steam drift in the direction that the rain is falling because the wind would influence that.

Tricks I'm offering to improve the next time you draw scenes like this. Clouds when you do lighting against them, put the airbrush to 5 percent opacity and gently stroke over the cloud and lightning is high energy so it will give some blue/purple lighting so have that around the edges and narrow the white core of your lightning. You did great with the branching off for the bottom half of the lightning, but the "trunk" of the lightning is too thick. Lightning does not have to be consistent in size for when leaving the cloud. It can vary a little and be like what you did at the bottom.  Rain for brushes I'd use a watercolor or a fade in/out feature brush to make the droplets and have the opacity being between 25 to 75 depending on how dense the droplet is or use it to make the rain add depth and distance of background objects. Size wise for each droplet really depends on the size of the canvas but a good one for a basic 1028 X 800 would be 1 to 2 on the brush size.  

If you need some symbolism help I can direct you to plenty of reference material to assist in creating amazing covers with hidden meanings behind placements or positioning of characters to basically draw your audience in further. The cover is good and can be improved. Don't give up on that.

I hope the critiques help improve your art because I think you have a bright future of drawing ahead of you!

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Novarose18 [2017-02-05 07:32:57 +0000 UTC]

I LOVE WARRIORS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Rynneer [2017-02-04 18:55:24 +0000 UTC]

Aha! A fellow Warriors fan! And a fellow GIMP user! This is totally my domain (Here from ProjectComment )
I like how you showed the fur's texture. Very well-defined and I can easily tell which way the fur flows. Nicely done.
I'm impressed by the fire effects in the background. It took me too long to figure out how to create a glow from the fire and make it look less like some random orange spikes.
You do have room for improvement regarding anatomy. I know anatomy can be difficult with cats. The right eye is noticeably higher than the left, and because eyes are a focal point, it throws off the rest of the image for the viewer. Cats also don't usually have such a clear distinction between their chest/neck/shoulder/leg fur. I really dislike drawing cat legs because cat legs are the. worst. I know how painful they are to draw. Heck, even using cats as anatomical references from the front don't always help! The level of distinction in this image does seem more fitting for dogs, who have wider chests. Additionally, we can't see the back legs,  (again! I know how hard they are to draw. Cat legs are my pet peeve, no pun intended) but we can see the tail. Usually, at least part of the cat's back legs are visible, unless they have an ungodly fluffy body, in which case, anatomy seems almost thrown out the window.
I do like how you pushed the muzzle downwards instead of having the nose and mouth in the middle of the face (which is what I do, I must confess...) but, unless we're talking grumpy cat, the lines of the mouth curl upwards to make the little bow-shaped muzzle... I can't explain it well enough, but if you look at a picture you'll see what I mean.

Overall, I like the background effects, though it lacks some detail in places, and I like how you drew the fur, but I think you might benefit from studying some pictures of cats and seeing how they fit together.


Your art actually really reminds me of how I drew cats a few years ago, so thanks for that unintended little trip down memory lane

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AngelThatDraws [2017-02-04 13:52:52 +0000 UTC]

Hello, I saw your art on  ProjectComment, so I’ll critique it :>
First off, your colors, I think that for the most part they're nice, but if you changed the hue slightly to one side or another, it would give more impact on what the drawing is trying to convey, for a sad tone: cold colors; for an angry tone: warm colors. Now your anatomy, it's somewhat off, the legs are too far apart, the ears are also too far apart, the head it too big, the forelegs are too far apart, the eyes are a bit sloppy, and it should only show the tip of the tail, and I liked what you did with the muzzle, but I would advise you using a reference. Now the background, it's blurry, I can't really tell much about what's happening, the rain should be seen everywhere in the picture, even in the giant cloud, because it should have another cloud of rain on the sky next to the cat, the rock should have sharp edges, and the tree, it's really hard to see the leaves in the front tree, I would advise putting more contrast, and the cat should be in a darker tone because of the clouds that make shadow, and i saw that you only putted two sticks on almost every trees, I would advise putting more on one and less on another. The grass is going to the right, and the rain drops are going to the left, I would advise fixing it, and if the trees should somewhat be inclined to the left or right. And the cloud, it shouldn't be so huge, I would advise making one big cloud a bunch of smaller ones to make it more natural, but nothing that a reference couldn't fix. But the drawing is pretty; it just needs some improvement :>

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drawing-viola [2017-02-03 01:32:11 +0000 UTC]

This is so good and pretty and beautiful! I love how much detail there is, and I love how Stormblaze looks!! (okay but actually this is sO GOOD AND I'M DYING)

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Howdy-Nyall [2017-02-02 23:01:01 +0000 UTC]

the amount of detail here is really good nice job.

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