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[feel what I feel]

A bit shabby..

Well, MSPaint is a pretty bad drawing software, you can download GIMP for free, which is a pretty good one.

The handwriting is pretty good, and more interesting than some other premade font.

The rectangles on the right have no importance and just clutter the image.

The artwork itself is pretty shabby too. Your line quality isn't great, and nobody's arms come from their ribs, but that is a common misconception in art.\

I don't quite get how the message matches the image. You need to make it a bit clearer.

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Silent-G responds:

MS paint is fine with me for the simple stuff that I'm doing. I've tried GIMP and I hate it, it's way too complicated and I prefer photoshop. I get that nobody's arms come from their ribs, but nobody has circle heads and stick arms either. I don't quite get why the message has to match the image, you need to be a bit more open minded.

[dreamy cloud]

Psychedelic

It's nice, but a bit simple.

Although I like the colours, it would have been nice to stay with the purple closer to the centre, as it gets a bit murky and brown. Maybe you should have started with a light purple and made it get darker in the middle..

They aren't really clouds, are they? More like a hurricane or something. It's certainly some part of a psychedelic forecast.

For some reason it reminds me of the film "Donnie Darko", which is a good thing, I think.

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kiwi-kiwi responds:

Thanks. I will remember what you said about the colors, maybe try it the next time I'll do something similar.
They do resemble a hurricane, yes, but I liked more the idea of a dreamy cloud.
As for Donnie Darko, sorry, never heard of it.

[Star Fairy]

Better colours

Unlike the other 2 I've reviewed, I like the colour scheme you've used.

However, I feel it needs something more, a bit more detail like your other ones.

Also, the wings look really messed up, and not symmetrical at all. I know its hard when you've got it at a weird angle, so maybe you should have taken more time over it. However, although their positioning is wrong, they actually have a nice feel to them, with the white outlines.

I'm not too keen on the shooting stars. When I first saw it, I thought the fairy was crossing the road :P

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EchoRun responds:

Those wings were a pain! She's sitting at an angle, so I had to have the wings at different angles too because they all go off in different directions (the upper pair fanned out and the lower pair more held together). I started with the wings on one side, copied them then played with the perspectives of the copes for the wings on the other side. Very fiddly. I think the bit that messed up the most for that was that I made her right wing too long (up and down), as we look at it. Stupid wings...

Thanks for the review.

[Demon Scorcery]

Detailed

As I said on your other piece, a better colour scheme would have been nice. Blue and red doesn't go that well.

I love the detail on the demon and the pedestal. You've perfectly captured the essence of the magic.

However, the demon's face looks a bit like an old woman's, which takes away from the power of the drawing.

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EchoRun responds:

I have never seen much trouble with blue and red, so long one is only in small amounts. So 90/10 red/blue wouldn't be so bad, but 70/30 would start to look naff. Also, with some of the blue starting to lean towards green I was trying to get a bit of a contrast going - an easy way to make things stand out so long as you don't go too OTT. I think I could have done better with that but at the time my colour tecs weren't what they are now.

An old woman's face? LOL. Never looked at it like that! If I squint I suppose I can see what you mean, I just find that funny. (I tease my creations from time to time).

Thanks for the review.

[Servant of the Gods]

Really good.

I like how you've blurred everything, but it is still obvious what it all is.

I love how the white spine on this creature echoes the lightning, bringing the piece together.

I'm quite a fan of colour schemes, so thought it would be nice if you had changed the colour of the creature to something more fitting, such as a light green. It would have completed it in my opinion.

Anyway, great work!

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EchoRun responds:

I suppose with making the snake blue/purple, I was trying to echo colours associated with the storm, and trying to make it stand out from the background. Green would (unless I were very careful) put it at risk of becoming 'lost' in the mostly green background. It would take a very experienced and talented artist to pull off a green snake on that background.

Thanks for the review.