Hello and welcome to Rikone's Art Show! ^^;

Since I forgot to reserve posts after my first one, my drawings will continue on page #4. Sorry for the confusion! :D

Drawing has always been a very large factor in my life, especially growing up. I actually started by drawing Pokmon, if you can believe it. =D

Constructive Criticism will always be accepted with excitement. Any tips to improve my now (finally) digital drawings would be appreciated greatly! <3

If you see something you like I am accepting commissions at this time.===>>https://www.sylestia.com/forums/?thread=23830 Please read the rules before posting, if you would be so kind.

Orders/Offers (I sometimes offer drawings for pets. ^ ^;)

Nightbanewolf : Headshot of Avatar for out of the blue gift of purebred offspring and stat Griffi
Keanai : Commission of young wolf character [free of charge]
Ember2000 : 2 Drawings; mated wolf pair and lighira pair = offered for her Pink Gladiolus Griffi female.
Mikazukichan : 1 drawing of both her pets Callianta and Arrow's Fall = offered for her Vampiric Griffi male.

On to the Show!

*This is an avi drawing I did using GIMP 2.8 for the first time.*

**My avatar using the InspirARTion app. This one I didn't try to clean up, can you tell? XD**

***Also using Inspir app. Pretty much the BG (before GIMP) and AG (after GIMP) lol!***

*This is my second attempt at GIMP and so far I'm really liking the results. Much better than the app I was using.**


***Ms. Keanai's Mirabelle Wolfy. I had fun with her, because Wolves are my favorite. <3***

UPADTE - 06/25/2015

**This was done using Manga Studio 5, which is sooo much better than GIMP.
UPDATE-


The newest member of my family, my baby Niece Sofia Maria Manzur. <3

One of my new characters Vandalent, a storm fairy. x3 His powers are often violent, but never with malicious intent.

Headshot of Nightbanewolf for her donation of surprise purebred offspring. ^^

ABOUT TIME! XD
Love the artwork Riko, as always.
Bump!

Thanks. x3 *Hugs!*

Oops, just realized I forgot the purple trim on the sleeves of my first pic! D; Darn it! Oh well, not going back, nope, nu-uh, noway Jose! >.< It took toooo long with so many mess ups to finish that thing! DX GIMP hated my guts and I wanted to KILL it lol!!

If you would like a drawing, please PM me, do not post the request here because I won't answer it.

Thanks. Just an FYI. :3
Also, if you'd like to post picture of your own artwork up here, then please PLEASE feel free to do so. I'd LOVE to see different artists and their beautiful pictures. x3 If I need to move the second half of my first post to a different thread then please, be kind and give me a heads up if yall wouldn't mind. I'd be happy to fix it if it needs fixin. *Sweatdrop.* ;D

Not a problem Rikone. Just didn't want you to get in trouble, because I know how you like to skim forum threads without actually looking at them. XD

Bumpity bump! ^o^

Did a critique/feedback. Hope this feedback is useful.

This one is my favorite:

The angle of the face is done well. The neck is proportional to the rest of the head. It has a good balance of shading and highlighting in the hair. The flowers looks great in that soft shading style. The picture just has great balance overall. The ear is a little small, but due to the hair being how it is, it almost feels as if the hair is going over the ear, which corrects it in a way. It really is pretty though. I like this one a lot. ^-^

This one is my second favorite:

While it is high-contrast, that suits it in a way. It leaves impact! The eyes like the previous, are really pretty. I wish I could draw eyes like that.

For the gimp ones, you seem to be able to keep your lines clean, and do well with the body. For the first gimp one, I think you do very well on the clothes. Looks like a lot of time went into this one as well! The part that throws it off to me is the shading on the face. I would avoid shading too much if at all around the mouth and nose (unless you are defining the nose). For me personally, if the shading on the face were gone or changed, that would be the deal breaker for if I wanted to buy similar art or not. At the very least, I would increase the value of it immensely. For the second gimp picture at the bottom, I think you did a great job on the body for this one as well. I'm impressed by the hands. Hands are so difficult to draw T_T. While the body looks lovely, you seemed to lose some definition on the jaw and neck.

Lastly, just one thing I noticed, but almost all seem to have a bit stiff shoulders. I'd angle the line from the neck to the shoulders a bit to relax them. Something like this,


(Doodled a little bit over the first one to show what removing the shading and changing the shoulders would do link)

Thank you very much! =D Especially about the hands comment. I erased that hand at least 50 times before I finally got it right. XD I used to never draw hands, I'd just tuck them behind the back. =o Ooo I like your little picture and appreciate the tip about the stiff shoulders, I see where your coming from.

Yeah, I know the face shading came out bad. >.< Me and the blending tool were having this disagreement...and it won, so I said eh! ;D

I appreciate your time and thank you for the tips and the tiny drawing. x3 I haven't drawn in almost 3 years and it just feels good to draw again. =] If you happen to have any tips about using GIMP please, please pretty please with sugar and chocolate fudge, and cherries and all other sugary goodness on top share your knowledge with me? ;^;

Okay I'm done being weird. Thanks again. >w<

haha, the classic trick of making the hands out of sight. I would just draw them very poorly in sight -- I have too many images with terrible hands.

Thank you for the thank you. Drawing is fun. c: But challenging. @_@

As far as GIMP goes, I've never used it before, so I don't have any tips about it. D':
For my own drawing, I just use my tablet and photoshop elements 9. But I really don't make use of any fancy features. Just the brush tool, and the undo button. But lol, thank goodness for the undo button.

You got that right! XDD If the undo button disappeared I would die a little inside. Ooo, photoshop is nice. I actually prefer Corel over photoshop, but that is because photoshop hates my guts and I would like to burn it. I bet that must produce some awesome looking drawings though. x3