Sword and the Amulet of Courage

I can honestly say this is one of my best works.

C+C, please.

it looks fantastic!

What program did you do it in?

Like always, The GIMP.

This is very cooool!

But that thumb on the left hand bugs me so!

I think it's brilliant, but the sword looks waaaay too short.

That... That's... That's awesome!

Sword's supposed to be short.

So is this Amulet of Courage from something? Ugh for shame I'm Chinese and I can't even read the character, damn it. XD

I love the glow coming from it, but the sword does look short, and it's because the blade and such is really thick ... it looks more like cardboard or a really cheap children's toy D:

Wow, pretty cool O.O

It's Japanese for "courage." >_>

Also, Sword's sword is supposed to be small.

What's with that >_>, the Japanese ripped us off and took our language XD, that is so kanji :(



*sob*

Also this "sword is supposed to be small" thing is reminding me of Hanyou's "sword is supposed to be big" thing for some reason haha ignore me

haha okay

I'll just consider the sword as a broad dagger :V

The 3D-ish amulet isn't all that fitting to the cartoony style of your character.
The very end of the dagger looks a bit strange, too.

Mm'kay.

The sword tip is a bit odd, everything else is awesome.

It's good, but you draw your character TOO MUCH

it also looks very suspiciously like Chinese, which is likely because the Japanese stole about half of their language from China in the first place, so you shouldn't be so snide about Salad's trouble



The sword is certainly too short and will be relatively useless as an offensive weapon; it's as short as a knife, but is very thick and would be difficult to use very efficiently. You could probably parry with it, in which case it should be in your non-dominant hand, like a shield would be. The lines showing the slant near the tip are much too defined and it would probably be better to emphasize the slope change with shading, rather than with lines. The tip should also still be two colors, but they should fade into the same color



The amulet contrasts sharply with the overall style of the rest of the image: it doesn't have the cartoony black outline. I understand it is a focal point of the image, but it should remain in the same style



The hand under the medallion looks very slightly deformed, on the underside of the palm and the thumb. The palm has too much of a corner and the thumb is too thin near the base. The rest of the hand is fine although the fingers might be too short in general



The background would be more interesting if you added planets and nebulae to it, especially with certain color choices



I do like the expression and the general form of the character, although his legs might be a bit short (this is hard to tell his loose shirt hides the hip level)

Also, try fading out lines that enter the image, such as on the top hair strand and chin



This is a nifty picture though, and I think that if you only edited the background it would be much more impressive

That's the most constructive criticism I've ever seen.

The amulet's glow shouldn't be solid in the area inside of the ... string or whatever you want to call it, it should follow the inside of it in the same way it follows the outside. otherwise that is kind of weird.


it looks good although the amulet doesn't match styles (that's been said though) and I would change the lighting on the sword/sword arm so that it matches the amulet as a light source, probably something like

with dark areas at the top and bottom, although a smaller one at the top

the reason why the top isn't lighter is because the amulet isn't directly on top-- it's on the opposite side of the body etc

also perhaps add some darkness to the left side of the leg on the left of the picture, and to the left side of the right leg (to make it appear more three dimensional as opposed to flat)




if you aren't using the amulet as a light source, this is all moot... but it makes the most sense to me.

This post has been edited by MikeL on Dec 1 2007, 09:20 PM