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Submitted: October 29, 2012
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Light My Fireby *moyan

Digital Art / Drawings & Paintings / People / Portraits

for the love of light and shadows:
#12 of the haiga girls series.

西日よりまぶしく燃える恋心
魂を食う炎の瞳
_{nishibi yori mabushiku moeru koi kokoro
tamashii wo kuu honoo no hitomi}
burning more brilliantly than the westerly sun-
my infatuation.
eating up my soul, your flaming eyes.

it is a commissioned work by ~the-warrior-of-ruin (a.k.a. Stephen Whittingstall). akako is a character in his webcomic
The Warrior of Ruin (www.thewarriorofruin.com)

this is the inspiration for the akako in my mind that finally oozed out onto the monitor:

basically akako's element is fire and so the tanka written is full of heat. even a blue dress couldn't drown the fire.

pencil sketch on A4 drawing, scanned and colored in photoshop 7.0.

by #dALinkSystem
Starry blue nekogirl by *SheIsBlueAi

and Menma-Chan by *efMoe

Critique by =zeleftenant Jan 7, 2013, 9:49:43 AM

for comment/critique contest, december 2012

^{On anyone's eyes, their first impression of this piece, they would think that it has been done traditionally. That's just how you actually fooled them, it fooled me too. It looked so much like an oil painting the first time I laid eyes on this. You showed us that even a digital work can be painted like a traditional method.}

Here are the strong part of this drawing, of how you pointed out the focal point at the upper part of her body, making people focus more on her face, followed by her clothes then last part of the legs, making it more less-detailed when it reaches down below, just like the background, it's not necessary to make a background for this piece..

..however, it's more advisable to fill up the white space. There are such thing, and it gives your persona more spotlight, especially when you've put the lighting on her right side (our left side). When positioned the lighting, there could have been more highlights on her skins, just like how you did on her clothes, and you could play more with the volumes of the gradient, less white on the skirt when it goes near her arms.

I thought this piece could use some blending, but at some art it doesn't have to be necessary because you play so well with the colouring technique that it gives the specialty and warmth to anyone viewing it