Hey guys!
Doing this after lovely pearwood started it again The first 20 people who comment on this journal, I will look through their gallery and pick my top 3 pieces! Please pass the love around if you decide to join! First ten or fifteen are absolutely fine. Let's discover our fellow Deviants work!

Bonus for ! Go check his gallery, he is amazing!

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Oh yay, another Metroid man! Nice work! The first one is from 2010 but it's nice and stylish and I love it! I see you have been going into more illustration-type work recently. Have you tried drawing and painting from life? It's a bit hard at first, but it's also very fun and challenging, and there is a lot to be learned from it!

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Whoa, all the lovely and different body types and some very nice variations in character design! if you don't know him yet, I suggest looking for Feng Zhu blog and channel on youtube; You have a very nice and strong character design approach! I think you would really like Zhu's approach to designing stuff.

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Hey there I see you are just starting! Keep pushing it! Shading is not that hard, it's actually quite fun when you start. I like you color work

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Yay, I love Lilo and Stitch too <3 It's so awesome! You have a nice start there, keep pushing it! Have you tried giving colored pencils a slower approach? Some Disney stuff goes very well with it - I think you would enjoy it! There are some nice tutorials around for some stuff you can try with them, its very fun, I love colored pencils hehe! And oh, you have some nice photos there too. I'd recommend pushing the contrast a bit more before posting them, it would make them pop a bit more

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Ooh niiiice work around, and a lot of studies! Love them This hand study is pretty awesome! Do you keep a sketchbook thread somewhere? I am pretty sure a lot of people would dig following your studies and progression

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Woot Rich! I love Stabby, and that first piece it awesome! I wish I could have seen the banner in person!

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Waaa such kawaaaiii colors <3 This is lovely! If you don't mind the suggestion, you should try and work your pieces a bit more - I don't know if you enjoy more illustration or graphic design, but you can push it both ways. You can either add a lot more graphic elements to it, handle it like it was a character profile with a nice icons on the background or try full illustrations with a bit more different poses and simple backgrounds. Either would work wonderfully, and you have this very nice feeling to picking a color palette that would just make everything work!

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Yay, another Warcraft fan! Very nice work you have going on here! I see we are trying to get to the same point - I also love fantasy illustration and this kind of palette for paintings! You are well on your way, hooray! Have you tried painting from life? Its pretty challenging,  and teaches a lot about light and materials - I think you would enjoy and benefit from it. Just set up a couple of objects near your computer, get a lamp to cast some shadows, and paint what you see!

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Oh nice art! I love how you aimed for those full fledged scenes, backgrounds and a lot of characters! Those are always a bit scary to me, I've been trying to work past it You have a lot going on in terms of storytelling in each piece - and that is very nice and hard to achieve! If you want to push a bit more of realism in your work, I'd also recommend drawing and painting from life. I did learn a lot from it

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Hey Marcio! Oh those animal silhouettes are very strong and well defined! They are reading very well there, very eye-catching. And oh, this more dynamic linearts are very nice too - they stand out a bit more than the other lineart. If you like working on this more action-oriented art, I'd suggest you go for it! It's working very nicely!

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Hey Emily! Oh whoa, that mural is crazy! That must have been a LOT of work! Awesome Nice you finished it hehe I know a lot of people that would just have given up. Your recent anime stuff is pretty nice, I would love to see you spend more time in it - more carefully planned lines and shapes! It would soar

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Oh yay! Even if you had very few images to chose from, it was still hard to pick only 3 hehe Strong images going on here! Lovely lines and colors, and that Snape portrait is awesome!

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Oooh that spartan piece! That one is very good! You have very character work, man. If you don't mind a few small suggestions, two things I'd like to suggest to you: don't be afraid to pull the contract on metal/shiny stuff. They really do have stark bright spots - they just aren't as bright as your light source, so you can push till almost until white! On in golden surfaces, an eletric-very-bright-light-yellow. That would be awesome. And oh, shape contrast too. See on that spartan piece the difference in size you have on between both feet? That adds a lot of depth into the piece - if you can try and push that to the other pieces, I think you can get a pretty cool effect going, and achieve VERY strong images!

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Oh yay, very nice shots <3 Very nice compositions going on them. This gecko shot has this lovely light and color on it, awesome! And pretty sweet lineart too!

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Hey Antonio! Very nice colors going on here! That assassin creed piece is very nice, well done! I see you're really trying to make a push as colorist, and you are well on your way! Anyway, have you tried painting from life? It teaches you a lot, and its really fun It was a lot more depth then work solely from photos.

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Oh studies! I love studies! And very nice studies at it too I really like this latest piece of yours, the sniper one. If you don't mind my nosy suggestion, here: if you look your gallery as thumbnails, see how your studies are eye catching? I think that is because you have a nice contrast going on them, very strong values, you see? If you can manage to push that kinda of contrast in your work, that would be awesome!

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Yay Tom! I love your stuff man. You have been progressing so much lately it's making me jealous Keep going man, it's been awesome. Check his gallery people - he is awesome. And YOUNG! xD

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Haha this is another guy I will always have trouble picking only 3 images. And he does not even update, RIGHT? That first one is one image I still love, someday I will steal it and color the heck out of it. Check out his pages guys, he is pretty awesome.

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Yay! <3 Hey there girl! I love this last linearts you posted. Your graphic design and vector art is very strong, do you know that? It's hard to skip it when browsing your gallery I know you have been studying quite a lot too, so cheers! It's really showing nice results if you browse your whole galery!

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Yay! No actually, you got the last spot hehe. I really adore your pencils, they are so soft and delicate! The faces you draw are very beautiful If you could spend a bit more time and scan your work or have them properly photographed, then push the contrast a bit so it reads a bit better would be awesome! So much has been lost because of the raw photos... Anyway! Love you work, keep pushing it girl!

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Oh Whoa! Some awesome art you have, inspiring Very hard to pick only 3, so take my choices with a grain a salt - or I'd have to feature half your gallery eheh. Awesome work girl, keep soaring!

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Always spot for awesome people, right? <3 I love your portraits girl! And that wip has a nice framing to it - I have a thing for unfinished pieces and this was just so lovely! And I love that idea of photographing sketches with a bit more happening around it! It makes it so.. tangible? Now if only I can be less lazy about my stuff haha xD Awesome work!

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Oh yay! Such a nice design gallery I couldn't help but feature too Very nice work man! Haha your creatures are amazing, very kick-ass! The only thing I would suggest for you too is to try and study how different materials work - leather, metal, skin, goo, softer/harder stuff. If you can manage to put that into your work, just a bit more, it would be AWESOME!

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I couldn't leave you out, could I? <3 hehe. Specially my fellow Dagger! I love this first piece here - the world there is SO BIG and the story going on is so nice! I would just like to see it rendered a bit more - which may be weird to say, since quite a few people says may work is over-rendered. I don't know, really - it its over rendering, or I just like my stuff to look less sketchy, you know? Anyway, keep pushing, I will be following you around here and on CrimsonDaggers forums!


So yeah, I did review the gallery and ended up doing more than I though I would. Hope no one minds the mini-gallery-reviews, really no offense meant! I just like art so much, and I love people being enthusiastic about it - I always enjoy people looking forward for their next level, right?
Thanks for the very nice afternoon every one, it was a delight to see everyone's work!
Now if you have time, please spread the love around and feature people too? It's a nice exercise for you and for the community!

Onto the next one!~