Been awhile/New Farwielder piece

So how has everyone been the last while. Glad to be able to enjoy the game and the forums again. Wonder who is still around from when I was here.

Anyway down to business. I recently purchased a tablet. Mostly I've just been getting used to it and doing little doodles, however, today I sat down and thought I'd try my hand at actually drawing something decent.


Full view it or else it's super tiny.
Thoughts? Comments?


Blagh, deviant art still shrinks it in full view a bit, use this one to see all the details.
Thanks


Things I've noticed while looking now:
- Left arm is too high, the elbow looks like it's coming out off his shoulder.
-Looks flat.
-Feet are jacked up.
-Flame blast is bogus.

Possible left arm fix?

I actually like that pretty well - nice clean lines and a cool stylized body.

One of my complaints was about the left arm, and your fix helps a lot. We should be able to see his left hand, though that depends on where you put the elbow. In your fix, I guess the arm is far enough out to the side for us to only need to see a hand. If you put the elbow lower, maybe we should get a taste of forearm as well. Etc. You're right, though; it was just confusing when it was up so high in the original picture.

The other critique is that I think the blast coming out of his right palm would look a lot better if there was only the solid orange color, and no additional linework (The current curved lines) or colors within the outermost lines (the straight jagged ones). Mostly, I just don't like what's going on inside the blast effect.

You might want to tilt that hip armor 45 degrees, also? I think that's quite optional from a realistic point of view, but it might look better when tilted anyway.

Tablets are neat! Good job!

I just tried something else out that I think looks quite a bit better.

How about this?

The changes are rough and quick so the lines are uneven right now and some reflections need to be fixed but I'll fix them eventually.

Fixes applied to the new version.

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This new one addresses the arm problems and at least slightly fixes the flat look of it.