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SC2 - Kohaku

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This is the sketch commission for :iconhoundofthenight: of her OC "Kohaku." This wasn't supposed to be colored... but I couldn't manage to make it look good uncolored, so it ended up being colored. orz (naturally, I won't charge extra) but yay~ it's finally done. The color itself it sketchy, so I'mma just count it as a sketch. o uo Gosh I had so much fun drawing those knees.

Lately more of my influence is coming from :iconkyoukaara: @ u@ Basically her stuff reassures me that dynamic linework is totally legit. > A> That's a lot of relief for me since I can't color inside the lines to save my life on a good day.
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This is awesome!

Again, I love that way you color. You use muted, but bright tones in this dreamy, watercolor-y way to add a really fun sense of energy to the pic, and to imply a lot of lifelike texture that adds depth and volume and brings the painting to lie. I especially like how you colored the wings, with the looser, kinda splotchy contrasts of shadows and highlights -- it give them a great, fluffy, feather-y texture. Her hair is lovely, too -- I love the subtle shine it has thanks to the bright highlights. Actually, yeah -- I like how when you do highlights, the color softly gets a bit washed out as it transitions to the bright highlights -- it makes it feel much more lifelike, much brighter, but still in that lovely soft, dreamlike way.

But when I am most captured by in this painting is the pose and the energy behind it. I noticed again that you used some foreshortening in her bent leg. It doesn't look bad, though it feels like it's not quite perfect either. The transition from the upper leg jutting out and the lower leg going back at the knee feels a bit awkward, and something seems a little bit off about proportions. So technically, it seems a little off. BUT! I think it, and the rest of the pose succeeds beyond that in how well it communicates the energy and motion of her pose! Everything is really dynamic and feels so believable -- it feels like she's running and leaning forward towards the viewer.

...hrmm. I am not doing it justice in explaining how much I love how that works. But please trust me when I say it looks great! Her upper body bends and leans forward, with also makes the running/flying pose feel stronger, because it shows how her momentum and the force behind her action pose is being carried through in a lifelike way. And the legs communicate and imply the motion and movement of running -- even if the one leg might have a small flaw or two, it succeeds beautifully in communicating the energy and the movement of her walk/run; there's a great sense of balance and flow and realism in the overall action and pose. And her arms, too -- they counterbalance the movement of the legs (when one leg is moving forward, the corresponding arm is moving back), but more than that, they have a great sense of motion of the arms actually moving, actually being "pumped" back in forth (in a very smooth, graceful way) in reaction to her running/flying pose.

And again, I love the face. Her eyes have a ton of life in them, too, this great, warm personality. And I like her smile -- you make such bright, lovely expressions out of subtle smiles. I love how the coloring gives her outfit an interesting texture as the light reflects off of the boots, her leggings, and the inside of the coat. And yeah -- that cloudy background gives it a great atmosphere here, too.

Love it! I really love that lifelike, exciting sense of energy and movement and action! You did an AMAZING job working the pose to communicate that feel in such a lifelike way. Awesome painting. :+fav: