HOT HO T

i already told u but this gives me life and makes me die at the same time (i mean that in the best wa y possible)

I wish this was a adopt!

this is the most beautiful thing ive ever seen in my life
brush setting are on the front page if you want them, they're optional tho <3
im going to keep staring at this noW tHANK Y O U

Hot Dad wrote:Little bit of work left to do! :^)

She is the value of Independence. %88. I 'm trying to do like independent strong woman vibes here lmao, we'll see...
Her animal will be a Crane, as it is independent and solitary its self.

Many cultures consider the crane a symbol of solitude, flying alone across the sky or found in a river by itself looking for fish. In truth, the level of social interaction varies by the time of year. They are territorial during the mating season and will often be found alone within their territory, but tend to be more social during the rest of the year and move in large flocks for safety reasons. Many societies, such as the Japanese, honour the crane for its grace and individuality.

I used your lines (1), but edited them, hope that's okay. :^)
Plus tried to do a bit of an oriental design like you've sorta done in your past creations..

. Common horns
. Common markings

EDIT: --- Also, i wasn't sure if there was a specific brush setting to use for line art.. Please tell me if there is or smth, sorryy!

mimona wrote:this is the most beautiful thing ive ever seen in my life
brush setting are on the front page if you want them, they're optional tho <3
im going to keep staring at this noW tHANK Y O U

*CastielNovak* wrote:

Hot Dad wrote:Little bit of work left to do! :^)

She is the value of Independence. %88. I 'm trying to do like independent strong woman vibes here lmao, we'll see...
Her animal will be a Crane, as it is independent and solitary its self.

Many cultures consider the crane a symbol of solitude, flying alone across the sky or found in a river by itself looking for fish. In truth, the level of social interaction varies by the time of year. They are territorial during the mating season and will often be found alone within their territory, but tend to be more social during the rest of the year and move in large flocks for safety reasons. Many societies, such as the Japanese, honour the crane for its grace and individuality.

I used your lines (1), but edited them, hope that's okay. :^)
Plus tried to do a bit of an oriental design like you've sorta done in your past creations..

. Common horns
. Common markings

EDIT: --- Also, i wasn't sure if there was a specific brush setting to use for line art.. Please tell me if there is or smth, sorryy!

DAD!!! did youDRAW THIS?

Woah I love this!!! Amazing job on the design!

avocados wrote:Woah I love this!!! Amazing job on the design!

All your entries so far are so good, oh my goodness, I love all your designs so much <3

arcticlights wrote:

All your entries so far are so good, oh my goodness, I love all your designs so much <3

All of your entries are stunning!

@mewmew, thank you so much! <3

To start with: this design looks really good from a distance, and the eye and shine design are great. Up close, there are some things that could use a hand.

Lines look a little uncertain - you've got some hanging ends on the front left upper arm and the back of the ears, and your line weighting is jagged across the whole image. Digital lining, especially with software that behaves like Photoshop (which Chickenpaint happens to) is much more difficult than traditional. It may be to your advantage to use a style that minimizes lining. Here, I'd say the approach to take is to use colored, not black, lines; a dark but not super-saturated pink or tan goes well.

You have color peeking out from under lines around the body, most noticeable around the chest, face and tail, a spot of teal on the furthest-right and furthest-left toe beans, and some bleed of pink outwards from the shine. This is pretty typical for WIP, but it's also one of the early things that people might notice on a relatively standardized model. (Changing the line color also makes stuff like that less obvious.)

True albino is tough for color schemes. I think you should consider pulling out the color a bit more. (Incidentally, toe beans are bare skin, so they'll be at least as dark as the inner ear)
A mixture of the pinks you have with hints of the purples from the eyes on the areas where the pelt is short would help tie the design together. At the current transparency, it's really hard to see what you already laid down, which is a shame!

I can see some faint speckles on his rear... so he's not completely albino. There are a number of other animal color variants that have traits of a true albino - for example, lilac and Argenti Cream gerbils have the eyes, which, when combined with mutations that cause larger white areas (pied, mottled) might leave only a few (pale) colored patches visible.

You could also bump the color subtly by adding a shading layer. This is easiest to do by duping your flats layer, filling the entire thing with pastel color(s) from the design, setting it to multiply, and then soft-erasing appropriately. However, that requires a lot of comfort with your tools and a steady hand, so you end up undoing every other stroke when you're doing it for the first couple times. It's not my personal favorite, but it's useful for faux cell shading, and you can change the obviousness of the shading on the fly by just changing hte opacity of the layer.

(...btw don't forget to adjust the eye/tongue in the corner there. You did such a nice job with the ones on the model!)

Overall: I wanted to look closer at about 3 entries out of ~40, which means yours is eye-catching, but I'd guess it needs a bit more omph to get a callback from the people scoring for real.

Yeah i knew it was kind of messy and that stuff was sticking out i just didn't feel like fixing it
I don't have pen pressure which stinks because it means I can't get the right line width

I added the speckles as a plain white design is kinda boring and kalons are sparkle-animals and don't have genetic coat colors anyway and a friend suggested adding faint markings

Thanks for the line color and shading tips, that's a good idea

This entry was pretty lazy tbh but i'm glad you took a look at it to help! Thank you!

I'm on mobile so making a clean design is kind of hard but i might make it someday

I'll try out some of those things you suggested c:

The idea of putting the blues in there is helpful too
Sorry this is a really choppy reply haha