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Since I can see you have quite a bit of skill and experience, I'm not going to go easy on you. I hope you're thick-skinned enough to take it, because I am not going soft.

On to the first one!
Wow the arms are long!

You still have some lines that are just a tad sketchier than when compared to a lot of the lines on the figure and detailing on the clothing. Was this intentional? What I mean is there's a single point sticks out like a sore thumb. There are also three places where the hair or something or another is replaced WITH BLACK. I'm pretty sure that you've noticed this as well, but when you actually fill in certain places with black, it takes away from the overall feel to the picture and has the eyes focus on those darkest points. I know that the girl has black hair, but it's highlighted so that it stands out and is not entirely black. Even still those of us that look at this picture realize that the hair is black without it entirely being so and doesn't take away from the overall feel to the picture.

Her sleeves up to the point below her arms don't seem to contrast enough, I think that they should be darker. Simply put, it's just the standard dark parts on the rest of the picture, when in reality, it should be hidden from the light from the source.

The small bit of cleavage seems forced, it honestly doesn't need to be there because of where the breasts have been placed. Besides, it looks a bit off in the first place.




The second one:

No offense at all, but I simply do not like her legs. I know that it's a shoujo thing to make the woman into a very petite figure, and this could be just your style, but still, there is almost not even a little bit of muscular capacity. The picked up one doesn't just seem off in its thickness and how it SHOULD narrow a bit when going from her thigh all down to her knees, but how the knee looks in general. It just flattens out and the foot just looks squat and without form at all. Doesn't look like you've practiced the foot part of the human body because it looks like she's wearing marshmallows on her feet. Secondly is that the outer line is still sketchy and looks like it needs a little bit of retouching.

In between July and November, it seems you fixed the problem with the length of the arms. It's another good thing that you also have hands as well. Dreaded part of drawing, some people never master that... (not even Vincent van Gogh! No wait... the things he really couldn't master were feet...)

The program you're using kinda looks like Open Canvas by the way you use the watercolor style shading and all. Am I right?

Um... I didn't put in any clevage sweatdrop And I haven't really gotten the hang of the arm lengths and everything since... well... I'm still having a hard time discerning the lengths and all. sweatdrop I'm purely idiotic when it comes to proportions! Everything else you said seems right... uh...

Except about the open canvas. What the heck is that? Like... photoshop or something? I use a little program called Photoimpact 4.0 it came free with my broken scanner, one that we bought back about... 6 years ago or so?