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Submitted: April 28
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A full-body drawing of Mark Jerry, sporting a colourful set of clothing including his mysterious and powerful 'Crystal of Dreams' set upon his chest. A previous attempt can be seen in the deviation titled Mark Masayume.

Artist's Comments

Quite recently I had been trying to get a portfolio together for a course in 'Games Art & Design' university and didn't have a lot of material, considering I took a non-artistic path in school. So when I was drawing up some newer pictures I decided to go redraw one of my personal favourite characters, Mark Jerry the Crystal Dreamer. It's been a good year at least since I last drawn him in such a presentable way, at least to add colour to him anyway.

I can see a little inconsistency with my line-weighting, particularly in the outer edges of his jacket-arms. Plus without detail or shading his shoes look reeeally strange compared to the rest of the body, shoes at an angle really get me. I tried using practical ways of using gradients without making them look cheap and nasty, I did so for the eyes and for his crystal stone up there.

Also he is currently unshaded (minus his crystal), so maybe I'll go shade him properly sometime after I've finished my college assignments, tweak things here and there.

Critique Preference

This deviation's preference is CRITIQUE ENCOURAGED. Please at least try to explain why you like/didn't like certain parts of the picture, I loathe one-liner 'praise' comments as much as destructive critique. Constructive critique is accepted and I will not fight or bite your head off for pointing out a flaw.


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~Ilkarin:iconIlkarin: Apr 28, 2008, 11:36:29 AM
Very interesting.

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~Ilkarin:iconIlkarin: Apr 28, 2008, 11:38:24 AM
Ah, hrm...critques...well, I can say that I like the design of the clothing and how naturally it flows with the body of the character.

I suppose something to improve upon would be defining things like the shoes and whatnot with laces or whatever. Small things but sometimes it counts. =3

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=Louisisthebest007:iconLouisisthebest007: Apr 28, 2008, 3:25:03 PM
Ah, thanks! Yeah, shoes were a toughie in this particular picture. Every time I tried to add detail it seemed to look all wrong in my eyes. Thanks for your critique and comment!

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~dragonien:icondragonien: Apr 28, 2008, 3:54:41 PM
Try raising his shoulders up a bit. It doesnt look like he has any shoulders, and that makes his neck look kind of nonexistant. besides that it looks pretty good.

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=Louisisthebest007:iconLouisisthebest007: Apr 28, 2008, 4:05:34 PM
You know it's funny, I used to think that I needed to raise the shoulders until I looked in a mirror one time and noticed my shoulders actually slope down like that. Perhaps I'm a freakish mutant in real-life? But anyway, thanks for the anatomical critique!

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=MTP623:iconMTP623: May 1, 2008, 3:47:21 AM
Very nice drawing Louis =3, and the shoulders look fine to me ^^;. Your style is very good, definitely improving ^-^.

I'm sorry I don't get to talk to you much anymore :(.