It looks really good to me! You are very talented, Phoebus!

It's hard to say, maybe you just need a few more feathers defining the legs? There aren't many good references online. You may want to up your resolution for your next drawings. If you ever wanted to print those out they'd look a bit pixelated. I don't go smaller than 300 dpi. Your drawings are neat. I like all the kinetic line work that's going on in your first piece. Good luck in the art contests!

The talons on each leg don't match- one has two pointing over and one under, and the other has three pointing over?

The wings and body are excellent, though.

EDIT: Either that, or we can't see the under-pointing talon on the right leg.

Oh, I make them pixelated on purpose. The first one I did completely on the computer, but for this one, I scanned in pencils and worked over it with this. I don't like drawing with softened lines...but anyway. Thank you!



Hehe, actually, what you're interpreting as the left foot's back talon is the right's back talon folded downwards. I can definitely see where you'd mistake it for that, though, perhaps I ought to change the height of one of the two to make it more clear.

Yea, how you have it angled the feet would not be on par with each other. The left one should be a tidbit shorter than the right. What you could do is instead of making them both straight down/out is spread them apart or have one curled up perhaps.

Ok, I blocked in the solid colors and made some touch-ups to his feet. I drew in a claw on the bottom of the left foot to try to define the shape of it better. Purple background is there mostly so I could tell where I'd actually put color in or not already. Any glaring mistakes I should fix before moving forward?

SCREAM

WHY ARE YOU OPAL, BELENUS.

Anyway, I am not satisfied with his colors. I feel like his main, opal body should be brighter. Sparklier. Snazzier. But I can't quite figure out how to do it without him looking like someone broke a glowstick over his head. His shadows are making him seem too dark, but at the same time, I feel like there isn't enough contrast in them. I think I may need to redo them in sharper colors, instead of the subdued shades they are. Ugh.
Taking a break for now, please tell me anything you see that you don't like so that I might pick at it relentlessly.

The background colour might be able to help with that. Dunno if the blue is what you want to be tho.

I don't know what I'm doing with the background yet. It's blue right now because the purple was too dull and was dragging the white down with it. Could you be more specific about what you mean by it maybe helping? Or is that what you meant?

I love it
Omg

I was wondering if you purposely did the pixelation. As long as you know what you are doing... carry on! You might want to try a much darker colour for your background. Maybe a really dark blue. Maybe just few shades darker than what you have already, but I'd stick with the colours you have in the bird. Hopefully you'll win a lot of nice credits.

Sometimes the background colour can lighten/darken the main object of a drawing. So by changing the background colour you can possibly make the bird lighter/darker depending upon the colour you choose. I suppose enhance would be a better word for that then helping. Hopefully that makes more sense.

I could see that working nicely on a background of really dark grey clouds/thunderheads. And not only because it is a thunderbird. The colors could maybe be just a pinch stronger/less Easter-y, but it looks good. Far better than I could ever do.

Eagle feet just look weird...





but these pics might be examples of them curled in the right way. I think it's just your feet that are being wonky though.

EDIT: I'm a day late and three dollars short... again *cry*

.... it's cool creepy eagle feet at least (my pictures). I'm loving the colouring on yours though

Eagles have huuuuge feet! They're kind of ridicu-huge. I tried to make Bel's feet more like falcon feet, in terms of proportion. Could you elaborate on wonky? It kind of gives me nothing to go on heheh.

Wonky like... he has weird toenails? I think that's the main thing I was noticing was that his toenail on that one foot that's kind of curled up is weird. That and I think I almost agree with that guy (girl? I didn't look who said it) that said the one leg should be shorter, because if you think about it he's kinda turned (or kind of looks like he's turned) a little so the legs wouldn't be looking like they were quite the same length? Maybe it's past my bedtime? I lurve you? *sway* I'm definitly not the best art critic

Clouds are not my friends. Bad clouds, bad! Anyway, I think this is done??

Nicely done The clouds look nice. And the bird definitely is bright white.

I love it and think it's really well done. Bel would be proud

And now for something completely different: MSPAINT DOODLES

<--this one is just mad delirious biznasty.





Someone needs to take the MSPaint away from me