I make one of these each year to keep track of what progress I make.

Cool, there's a lot of improvement

Aye, thanks. I focused mainly on anatomy and rendering. For this year I'm putting more effort into learning posing, gesture, and how to draw backgrounds and environments.

Yeah, it shows, the old one seems really stretched, the newer one is much more proportional

Mhm. I still go for a tall/slender build out of personal preference, but the exaggeration is far less pronounced now. Rather, I emphasise the figure using a few tricks of character design. For example, the part of the outfit that's black stretches from the feet up to the bottom of her ribs at the back, and the result is that the legs look longer than they actually are in proportion to the body.

The amount of work I'm putting into this pic is getting ridiculous

xd

but, I'm slowly getting there

Looks good

Looks nice, dud

Thanks!

Watch the foreshortening on his right leg though, the foot seems too small.

just a wee bit

You're probably right

when I was making her*, I imagined the perspective to be much more pronounced.

(Loving the background work though)

I'm just starting with the background, there's almost nothing there yet

Aye but the lighting on the clouds is nice

thanks! I can't wait to color them

@SneekiBreeki that's a lot of improvement in just one year, keep up the good work 👍

I am fake russian, that is true.

Fun valentine, huh?

Funny.

Fun would be Весёлый, not Забавный.

Altho there's no 100% eqivalent translation to word "fun" in russian.

funny is definitely Забавный or Смешной tho.

Yeah that sounds bout right

Even tho i'm a fake russian, i'm pretty good at pretending to be a real one.

It seems like this channel is not often used

let me fix that with my ultra weeb avatar

what do you think?

: )

awww

seems like a magnet for head pats!

thanks : D

that was my intention

Probably because people were making the art get lost in shitposting. That should be less of an issue now with our new gallery manager. 😃

@O.K It looks good, but i have one suggestion, if you're interested in a bit of criticism.