As usual nice job on all the detailing and choice of background. My fav detail this time around is the biohazard symbol on the uniform looks layered. Just an embellishment. I like it. lol Nice work!

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I would like to see some different sorts of things from you,
Your drawings are good, but all run along the same lines - militant furries with detailed outfits, usually in grey and brown tones.
What you do, you do well, but I am beginning to believe it is all you CAN do.

I'd love to see you branch out a bit, and try some different styles AND content. You could be amazingly good at this type of picture, but your gallery will always be quite boring if there is not a lot of variation.
I'd love to see you try some different types of characters. Funny characters, perhaps, or maybe just different lifestyles to the usual military stuff. Rockers, dancers, strippers(?), sailors, doctors, scientists, environmentalists, slobs, old age pensioners, business men and women, junkies, children, mothers and babies, those are just a few types of characters I can think of that I've NEVER seen you draw. Just think of all the challenges it could open up for you if you tried out some of those ideas? For example, the warm tones of a picture of a caring mother, or the sinister yet sexy mood of a strip club scene. You could really push yourself by branching away from what you're comfortable with and dipping your toe into styles and ideas that you're NOT used to! Try different styles of linework as well, and different styles of colouring, cel shading, vectors, even painting with a real paintbrush.

This picture like many of your others is good, the colouring is good, the textures are good, but I am honestly running out of things to say, because all your artwork looks the same. I hope you aren't offended or upset by that statement, but I feel it is the honest truth.

Perhaps you could try doing some art trades with people in order to give you some creative inspiration!

As for specific commen ts about this picture, the first thing I notice is that hand is looking too small. The second thing I notice, is that the torso and the lower body don't seem to match. What I mean to say, is that the tail and legs look very stiff and straight, as if he is standing to attention, but the upper body looks more casual and relaxed, a little troubled, perhaps, but certainly not standing up straight and stock still in an army line (as the lower body looks)

Can I also add as a smoker myself that that is a VERY unusual way to hold a cigarette! Most people hold it between their first 2 fingertips, I'm sure you know what I mean. Although he might have just taken it out of his mouth to fiddle with it for a moment (that would make sense, given his troubled face I can imagine anxious sub-concious fiddling with random objects, which a lot of us do when nervous) yet the angle it is held at looks as though it would burn a hole through his glove. Unless he is trying to put it out with his hand? But if he was, he would surely be looking at what he's doing so as not to burn himself.

The detail in his clothes is excellent, especially the shoes, and I like the knife in the trouser leg, and the grenade. Perhaps, the thing he is carrying on his back is a bit too straight. I know it is an unnatural object, but given that his shoulders are at an angle, I would assume this backpack-thing would not be at an exactly 180 degree angle! Actually, if he's on his break wouldn't he put his backpack down on the ground? I know I would!

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I'm well aware that the current art that I'm doing looks for the most part the same, as I've been working on a big, group picture of all of my characters: [link] in the same vein as my previous one: [link] except with more, full body characters with updated appearances. I could've taken the opportunity to at least make them have more dynamic poses with perspective and such to prevent myself from getting rigid, but I've decided to instead concentrate on just getting their looks the way I want them to. ^^ This is my 8th character out of 16, and since I'm halfway done, I've decided to take a break (as mentioned in my website updates: [link]) to do other things, since it's such a long term project.

I've honed my skills in drawing in general since I've just finished a Drawing I class, so it all won't go to waste, don't worry. I'll probably alternate between drawing a new character for the group picture and drawing a picture that stands on its own for the sake of variation.

Anyway, thanks for the honesty and all of the comments and suggestions. I really appreciate them.

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Thank you, and yes, the biohazard symbol is layered. I played around a bit with the bevel, satin, etc. filters and such to make it come out the way it is. :3 Thanks again!

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i tried to comment this before, but i don't think it worked.

i always find long term projects like that hard, because byt the time i've got to the end, my skill has improved so much that the beginning looks somewhat lacking and, well, crap, in comparison, and i have to start again, and the thing never gets finished!

don't do something "for the sake of variation", do it for your own sake, because you WANT to do it. Hell, i have no say over what you should do, you don't have to prove anything to anyone.

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I've done quite a few long term projects like this, and it's definitely quite tough. I think I've purposedly prevented myself from improving just for the sake of style consistency in the end project. o.o As for variation, I do want it, it's just that I'm so lazy to do it and get so caught up and fixated in doing one goal (big, group picture). I'm so rigid that I have to force myself to do something else sometimes. XP Anyway, don't fret. My direction in what I do with my art is tough to sway.

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No prob, looks cool. lol

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