Hell Princess

[Oni]

This is my first real outing with Painter. In the past I've tried it for an hour or two, fiddled with the brushes some, got frustrated and fled back to photoshop. I've always been envious of the look other artist get with painter though so I thought I should stick it out. For me using painter felt like driving a rocket car, very powerful but I never felt fully in control. I'll be trying it again though.

Linked due to nudity.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...hie58small.jpg

[blamito]

I like it. Gotta throw out a couple of crits though, to be fair. The monster looks a little flat. The back breast kind of pops out. I think it should be a little bit darker to push it back in space. And I think less of it should be shown, as her shoulders aren't really turned that much.
Nice stuff though. Looking forward to seeing more.

[Tim Rocks]

Nice work, very painterly (naturally enough I guess..)

Good composition, use of color theme, drawing of creature and girl. I could be nitpicky about some of the anatomy here and there but I think it works overall.

Did you just pull the idea out of thin air or is it a reference to anything?

[richcapo]

It's okay -- and certainly better than I, a non-artist, could do -- but it still has a lot of trouble points. The major ones:

You need more contrast between the monster and the flames around him -- it's getting lost in the flames. Even if you're trying to have him "grow" from the flames or made of the flames, you still need more contrast, otherwise it looks undefined and unfinished. You also need more refinement on its facial features.

The girl's tits are weird, too. They look like pointed lumps of mozzarella, not like breasts. Finally, if the girl is actually supposed to be in the same place as the monster -- rather than just look superimposed over it -- then she needs to have a heck of a lot of light from the fire fall on her. Otherwise, she has no relationship to the environment around her. She also needs the light from her candle headdress to cast highlights and tones on her hair, face and body -- otherwise those flames look superimposed, too, and have no relationship with her.

There are numerous other things to work on, but those are the major ones, I think.

_Richard

[wheelchairman]

Well. To be sincere I don't agree with some of the crits that have been thrown in here... I like the picture and there would not be much to criticise from me. As for the anatomy - If I understand it right, the picture is not showing off the perfect human body. It seems you got your own style and thats what I like.. And.... yeah.. she looks like Cleopatra to me. Nice job.