@paolatosca Thank you for this! My days off are coming up and I plan on taking all the advice so far and putting it to good use, so far I have made a few small adjustments and started reworking the fur, and with your advice on the lighting/shading, I should have a pretty good looking piece here in a couple days! I'll have an update posted in the next couple days.

@scribblesbymike Ah good catch! I thought I fixed it when I did it initially, it was definitely much worse! I didn't even double check the bottom part, I will get that fixed on my next go round!

@kaitlinmakes Thank you, I definitely want to take more characters from mine and my wife's childhood and put a more mature/darker spin on them, I got inspired by American McGee's Alice. And I totally do sometimes feel a bit out of place when I post some of my art here because everyone else does have the kidlit kind of stuff/style. But the community is great! And sometimes my stuff is a more whimsical fantasy haha, this just happens to not be that way. I'll take a second look at her head though! I used a reference for the head and the angle but it was just that, just a head reference not a full body so I could see how my sizing is still a bit off, she used to have an EVEN bigger head lol.

Thank you both for the extra feedback! I will definitely be working through this some more throughout the week.

@Jason-Bowen WOW, the improvement from the darker version to the bluer one is amazing! Keep it up!

@nessillustration Thank you for the response! And I totally agree, I finished the head and my thoughts were pretty much exactly the way you described it, which is why I feel like I need to do some practice so I can find that middle ground you're speaking of.
I just now remembered that I have access to the painting fur and hair tutorial! I will go through that first before I make adjustments to his body again. But your absolutely right and I think part of my reasoning was I wanted the focus to be on the heads, so I didn't worry too much about the bodies as much, however now that you mention it, it just confirms my own feelings that I should have completed it fully!

So off I go to practice with the hair and fur tutorial and then I will take another jab at this piece to make some more adjustments.

Thank you again!

So here is an update I did making some of the changes I mentioned above and playing with some of the filters.

Hey everyone! I recently shared the start and some progress pics to this piece, and here is my somewhat finalized version. I say that because after a nights sleep I kind of want to make some adjustments, like for starters her hand not holding anything seems a little too large, and I want to recolor the floor because he is blending in too much. What other changes or critiques might you have?

I also want to note that I like his head, and don't like his head at the same time, and I will probably leave it for the most part but practice some fur/hair drawing techniques in the future.

Thanks all!

One more update before I'm off to bed, didn't like how the Beasts head was after I finished getting through hers. Gotta fix that hand though too!

Some progress updates on this piece. I finally got motivated enough again to where I think I might be finishing it in the next few days. But we will see. I'll happily take some critiques if you have any! Otherwise I am going to keep knocking this out.

I don't plan to get too detailed with the dress, it will likely stay close to how it is now aside from the shading and lighting. Speaking of lighting I am still working out the windows in the back so they don't blend too much with her in the front.

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I haven't watched it yet, so I am not sure if this would count. But I tend to use the same kind of brush in all my stuff. I try to branch out, but I always find myself going back to the chalk brush. I just like the way it can work with what I do. I do use other brushes for somethings, but by far, Chalk brush is used almost always.

Like I said, I haven't watched the video(s) yet but I think using the same brush types all the time fits with consistency which leads to the same style.

These are amazing, I want to try and give some constructive feedback but honestly, I just can't stop thinking about how awesome these are.

If I am to add any sort of constructive feedback it might be that some of the robots have parts that are together with that "floating" affect? I don't know what to call it but I'm just looking at some of the pieces that aren't connected and while it's very cool and works well with the art, I think a way to improve could be to figure out how to actually connect the parts mechanically. But I know as well that the future tech fantasy has that sort of magnetism going on to hold parts together so it also works!

But I just wanted to say that as a way to improve technically with your style later on. But it's all super amazing and hope to see more from you in the future!