Anima may I suggest when met with critique that you asked for by joining this thread don't throw a pity party when I try to help. You have to practice in order to improve your designs (trust me I know) But allowing yourself to say your skills are just terrible and responding that you hate yourself to critiques will get you no where. Designing is like any other skill - practice, try hard, and don't wallow in self pity.

Thanks! Those are the themes I was thinking of. Hope it's not too similar... Let's see. I do see the resemblance - like a love child of the two themes xD
I think it's unique enough to be its own design, though... hopefully.
Mine, Sunlit Forest

Forest Caller

Shrouded Fortune

With this citrus design I love it. The only issue I can find with it is that you repeat color hexes. For what I assume is a themed design you need to change out the hexes. You can saturate and desaturate color, for the wings I would also really suggest adding in some blues in the g2. For a surfside design I think you should include some more blues - which I did by adding blue into the wings.


Next one looks good, no suggestions :)

With your next design I see a few issues. You have some repeated hexes, which as mentioned above are problems. As some other users suggested try add in some pinky oranges and yellows which will bring about more dawn like ideals. I'm not to set on the version I came up with it but it has some color suggestions I think

With your watermelon design I don't see enough 'watermelon'. Watermelon leads me to think vibrant greens and reds. The blue I think is also an odd choice, I would swing it towards a more vibrant yellow-green. Taking a look at the main body the first issue I see is that brown. I would make it a vibrant red color and leave that pinky color - but make it orange red. Now I suggest making the m1 a green color, as these are leafish. If you do that make the g1 a darker red. For g3 I suggest making it more red.



For cobalt fire I think you should include some oranges. The inclusion of the word fire makes me thinks you should use some fire colors. You could also use some darker blues. I suggest darkening the main body color as well. For the g1 I would use an almost baby blue color. I would also has some more variation on the blues and pale colors, which create more of a contrast and more to look at.




For riverclam I suggest using some more gold colors. When looking at images there should much more natural gold tones. To add some pops I could suggest maybe some blues - which I see you included. Looking at the design without any traits it is much to dark. I would use a medium toned brassy color myself. I would move the g1 to a darker color. In the g2 I would bring in some more brassy colors. For the g3 I think this should be your brightest gold color. I suggest bringing some blues into the m2 and m3, if a color shows up at least a couple times.

Ooo, thank you! The reason on the Rikki as to why I chose that specific shade - emulating sunlight on/through leaves is so hard, so I tinge the greens with yellow. I think I will fiddle a bit with that particular color slot, though - it seems a bit too similar to the leaves on M2.
Spring Storm Aurleon vs Indigo Bunting Aurleon

They're a bit similar in terms of a cool palette, but I think they're different enough to get by. I'm going to play with the gene colors to get them to pop a bit more. (Indigo buntings are so cute. I love birds)
Old:New Sunlit Forest Ferrikki

Changed AC2 to make the leaves pop a bit more.

Oh niiice, love the new change. :)