Looking for critiques on a digital painting!

[Ezel_Cerberus 3]

Hiya! I'm looking for any sort of critiques I can get on this piece. I was aiming for a very simple coloring style for this piece, not one with tons of values, more of a comic style. Having always studied more of a realistic style of painting (not proficient by any means,) I'm having trouble trying to keep the coloring style simple. Would love to hear any critiques for anything with the piece, at least the coloring of the piece anyway!

 

The original sketch was done by our resident artist - SkyBound - I used one of his requests he did and colored it, with his permission of course! He has an ongoing request thread open, you can get your own super original sketch by him!

 

OC Flame Dancer - Original sketch by SkyBound

 

 

Thanksies,

 

Ezel

[Replicant 113]

That's really impressive! I'm guessing that's lava he's dodging, so the only thing I can think to recommend is that you emphasize the glow of the lava. I see the red highlights on the pony, but I think they need to be a little brighter. Also, maybe add a glow of red around where the lava is bursting out of the ground / the rocks touching it? 

[Sensuna 138]

I don't really like the style you use but the drawing is really good nonetheless liking someones style or not is subjective nothing you can do about it

[Ezel_Cerberus 3]

Thanks for the comments guys! I went back to address some of the issues posted and tried my best to fix them! Yeah, I went and checked what lava spewing out of a ground is supposed to look like and I found out lava isn't totally red, can ya believe that? Such is doozy that was! 

 

 

I would love to get even more critiques too, they help tremendously to better my works!

 

bye bies!

 

Ezel

[Nothing&NoOne 695]

Okie dokie, let's see if I can help.

 

The fix you did with the lava improved it a lot, as well as the light it's casting on the pony.

Really, the only thing that I can see that needs improvement it the shading in some spots, (under the hoof is pretty dark, but the lava is causing quite a bit of light; it shouldn't be as dark), and to make the backround look a bit more realistic to match how the style of the pony is.

 

Nice work with the pony. I like the expression, and the stars in the backround.

 

 

All in all, it's pretty good to me. I've tried digitally painting before and it didn't work, so awesome job

[SkyBound 829]

Once you put both versions side-by-side, you can clearly see a great level of improvement.  The glow from the lava flow is obviously the most apparent change and it works wonderfully.

 

It seems that any critique that I was going to mention has already been addressed (dark shading under the hoof and other shading details), so once those minor details are looked over, I think you can confidently say that you are finished.  Simply great work, far better than I could have produced!  I cannot wait to see what you have next!

[Ezel_Cerberus 3]

Hiya guys! Phew, I don't think I ever spent this much time on a single piece trying to fine tune it! This will most likely be my last tweak to it. Largest things I addressed in this one is that of the hoof shadows and to make the terrain bit more realistic than what it was. I tried adding cooled lava and scorched rocks instead of keeping everything simple like I did, hope it turned out okay.

 

This is by far the most fun I had in a digital painting ever and I feel like I learnt more about painting too! 

 

 

As always, I still would love to hear any kind of critiques for it!

 

Thanks to SkyBound for letting me color his awesome piece, would love to do something like this again!

 

Thanks for everyone posting on this thread, comments are greatly appreciated, until next time,

 

Ezel