Lewa, Toa of Air (He's Spending Quality Time with the Trees)

Hello, fellow tree-friends, and welcome to my next artwork. It is a drawing of my toy. ENJOY!

This took 8 hours, like the last one lol

Lemme know what you think. You guys said Tahu’s hand was too big, so I made Lewa’s extra smol.

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I look-seed this post and click-pressed it.

Anyways, great-good art you have made-created!

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The perspective is a bit all over the place. The differently-sized tree limbs make this feel like a modern art piece intentionally playing with any point of focus so the eye can’t rest anywhere.

But I should probably actually be helpful instead of just complaining :cold_face:
A way to improve this drawing would be to utilize one-point perspective. Simply draw a dot at wherever you want the vanishing point in the background to be, and then use a ruler to lightly sketch reference lines that meet on that dot.
And then use the reference lines to build your scene around to help balance out the scale of the drawing.

I can proudly say that I have never done this and don’t know how to draw :sunglasses: :sob:

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I think outlining would help a lot, as Lewa kinda blends into both himself and the background. While I can somewhat make out the details, I need to zoom in to actually see them well.

Your trees look pretty good, though, and the overlapped branches line up well on both sides of the overlap

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Agreed; that’s my main criticism of the piece.

I like the colors, though, and Lewa is pretty decent proportionally (although his back is a little strange).

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I am well-aware of this technique. HOWEVER, it works better with digital art or paints. If you aren’t using one of those two, it leaves ugly lines on the paper, no matter how hard you erase. Also, I’ve been eyeballing perspective for a while now, so this technique (I’ve tried it out several times) doesn’t make a big difference. That, and I can’t fix the thing without redrawing it (it is colored pencil.)

@BioKnight

I was considering that, BUT but but, I decided to let Lewa blend in. I liked it like that. You see, in this lighting, with the golden beams coming from one side, I wanted the entire scene to GLOW. Keeping the lines blurred helped sell it. But, if you insist, I might add some shadows in the areas that blend too much.

@Zhyndea

Outlines…

The colors are the best part. I’m surprised that you didn’t notice how LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG Lewa’s legs are. I stretched them out due to… personal taste. (I like the legs long.)

What part of the hunch looks weird? I’m curious.

EDIT:

I added some extra highlights and shadows with MS Paint for a proof-of-concept

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I would recommend drawing the lines softer.

This is why there’s always next drawing :relieved:

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Nothing to do with the hunch; rather, the back in general looks a little misshapen. That may just be me, or it could be another perspective issue.