haha you show off!

i love it but ure paintings are always so dark! - or i could just be my monitor.

well yea, I like to paint from dark to light, so I always leave it dark before I decide to finalize the detail and bring the the focal point to light.

and thanks but I wanna see your works in dA too. So post something already.

i'm working on it! hehe! but i'm gonna get the assignments out of the way first. the way jun ning and tch stress about the projects make me so sleepless with anxiety! D:

Brilliant. I'm really impressed at the quality of your 'speed paints'- they are considerably more polished than some others' completed works.

That said, the original 1-hour sketch I thought was a tad stronger, due to the fact that it is lighter, so the glow effect is a bit more pronounced.
But the finished version shows an extremely solid grasp of anatomy- and ya shouldnt always be too critical on yerself! ^^

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"Do I look alive to you?" (posthumous)
- Oscar Wilde on zombie.

haha thanks for the comment man, i really need to grasp my initial visual properly, usually they just go to drain when i start polishing them, thinking more about detail and design and i forgot the lighting that i have envision at the initial stage. that is to say, my workflow isn't quite stable yet.

am i being too critical? i'm just eager to improve, everytime i finish a work i'll critic myself so hard and try to remember them. but usually my lecturer says that I'm too stubborn to take their comment, just because i don't implement what he says. @@

being critical about our own work's a necessary thing... the desire to improve, better one's self as a crucial element of developing artistically. But there are times when we tend to be over-critical of our pieces... I used to do that, and as a result when people view your works with your criticisms laid out bare, it detracts from the final presentation- it's almost like forming opinions for people to digest, instead of them providing commentaries and criticisms based on their own.

Nowadays, i tend to wait a bit... ask others before writing criticisms on pieces. It helps to observe and hear what others say about your pieces without any particular bias. As for you lecturers, XD dont worry bout that. Improvement and implementation takes time, as there is a distinct difference between being able to 'see'- developing one's artistic eye- and painting skills. It happens to me, and some of my old art teachers argue the same. Well, over time the lessons do leave an impact, but only after hundreds of studies, exercises and practical work.

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"Do I look alive to you?" (posthumous)
- Oscar Wilde on zombie.

good point haha.. maybe I really am over the line. I'll try to get a little neutral next time