so in this video we're going to be continuing our series where I look at old art of mine from
the channel and roast it this one's gonna be a bit tough because I do still really
like this one I always say that you're never above critique and I think that even with the
pieces that you really like critique is still necessary to improve right off the bat I think
like the anatomy of the boy himself I think like I drew the arms in a way that kind of hints at
muscles isn't that technically incorrect no but I would have stylized that a little bit
more I would have rounded it out a bit more make not only his arms a little bit chubbier
but also like maybe like his stomach area as well I dream quite thin I think like I
should have filled out that area a little bit more drawn more of almost like a stomach pouch
giving more of that baby fat back in there to really accentuate that this is like a child
there's a lot of tiny anatomical things that I think I would have changed
this is another stream where I also chose to work with very clean line work I think that's
fine it's a sea creature it's not like it's fuzzy or anything it's very very very slimy
very slick so it's not like it's anything crazy that I think would require rough line work like a
bird or something I do think that I over lined the hair I think that there's too much going
on with that hair where the rest of the body is very simple there's not a lot of line like detail
within the rest of the body and I think I went just a little bit overboard with lining the hair
I probably could have simplified it more which would help unify the design as a whole because
the lines themselves are not very complicated like if you look at the completed line art of the
entire boy it's very very simple like the second least simple section is the little suctions on the
bottom of the tentacles but even that it doesn't really balance out that hair and that hair is just
way too large I think I would have shrunk that down a bit more it's a bit too poofy I do like
the poofy look but like the ratio is a bit too large if you'd like to support the channel in the
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the ear the ear that flaps over his face that ear bothers me the way that that ear folds it's like
I have it like up at the top of the head and I think I realized that while I was illustrating
and it almost looks like it's flopping down from the hair and that's incorrect because it's on the
other side it's coming from where the ear should be coming from but on this side on the right the
side where the ear is flapping towards us it looks like it's coming from the top of the head
and that's super incorrect yeah I think I noticed this and I was like oh shoot well it's too late
to change it now like if you look at the dumbo octopus itself that ear is very translucent so I
was like I should probably imitate that and then I realized what I did you know I will live with what
I've done and because I had extra time I decided to put this character in an actual background like
make the background quote unquote visible and have the lights aim directly at him like it was
in the video that I was referencing where a bright light was aimed at that little double octopus and
it covered its face because he was a little shy and I was like I want to make that similar to this
so a lot of the shadows here are replicating that I do think I could have done better with pointing
out the light source there are a couple spots here where I'm like it doesn't look that great and I'm
like I probably could have done a lot better in terms of like aiming the shadows forward I would
say definitely on the hand that's closer to the body there should be more shadow on that probably
should have added some shadow onto the ear in the back the one on the left maybe a higher shadow of
the little uh double octopus that's on the boy because it's a bit of a shadow on the top of
his shoulders this should be a bit of a shadow behind the little dumbo octopus but you know
or also should have been a larger cast shadow behind the double octopus it's a bit small all
things considered I can't really critique that well I mean I can I could say that I dislike
this background but I definitely would have changed that background overall as well because
it does look very rushed and very unfinished I probably could have done a lot more in that regard
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