I took your advice

[Art-de-Vivre]

Hi folks,

Of all entries I submitted in the Femme Fatale contest, my Forest Dryad from Mars Ultor was the entry that received the most positive comments.
I learned from this advice and painted a new one that is hopefully better :

http://img72.imageshack.us/img72/940/collage88vt.jpg

Is this one better ? :wavey:

[green stuff]

Nice but you might want to work up a bit your shadows. Either with thinned green inks or, to get deeper shadows, thinned red inks (color theory), but this is tricky, blue inks might be less harsh.

[Nathan Caroland]

You're painting seems to be smoother and a bit cleaner in general on this one, pleased to see that some of the comments worked well for you (I haven't read them lately so I can't say what they are) on this.

Critique right now would actually be the lighting that you use to take the photography with these, looks like a single overhead lamp. Your setup and background looks pretty good - so I would suggest atleast two lights, to the sides, diffused if you can, though you can get perfectly good shots without it diffused too (SteveB does this I was just reading so obviously it works). If you can manage a third light overhead, that would be optimum I would say.

She looks good! I think Cedric is right in the shading, but in particular I think it would look nice with some inking or washing of darker colors into her hair as that would set it off nicely I think.