Ji's Open Canvas Thread

ahh, thanks for all the comments!

kajiti - true! everything looks a bit washed out and more like watercolour than oils (as genki's does)

loose - thanks! she was originally going to be really young (like 8 years) but she sort of aged as she went along. hmmm cel shading. deviantart and various forum artists always seem to talk about "cell shading," maybe it's a typo!

throws - thank you i keep thinking about my wedding these days heh. it's still a long way off though. my next piece is a bride. haha. (dress looks nothing like my real one though!)

dyxanije - heh ty yeah, that is one thing that annoyed me but i couldn't figure out how to change it. i have another version where it is more obvious, but just feels a bit dull for me

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baklava - thanks, definitely something to work on. i think having been locked into pencil-and-paper photo replicating realism sketches i've been avoiding lines and using shading instead. and then shading tends to be forgotten in a hurry (or deliberately forgotten if pencil and paper would take too long)

 example: which one looks more realistic?

also on pencil and paper it's much better to leave out the shading than shade the entire face to give the nose some depth, because then you start making the person look like they have facial hair, and i am usually too lazy to fix up a pencil/paper facial hair problem

baklava and kajiti - thanks for the tips - will search them up! have always been curious!

looks like a doublepost anyway...oops!

another apple (this time attempted realism)


and a bride this time (reference)

got too tired to finish doing the roses lol