Glad ya dig it - love that cute avatar BTW.
They both look great, you did a good job with both their faces.
Whoa. Is it just me or did your skill just jump one atomic excitation level?
Your dynamic lighting/shading work is elevating the pieces, towards a more photorealistic feel. Especially with Trickshooter. In fact it seems that the comic-style linework (especially around the knees) is fighting against the shading and ultimately hurting the piece.
I would strongly suggest you start experimenting with minimizing your comic-style lines, to the point of chucking them altogether, and maximizing your reliance on lighting and shading to define your shapes and forms. This effort would probably also require you to dive into some color palette theory.
Now your work probably isn't ever going to be photorealistic, but all you need is to get enough hints of photorealism that your audience finds it easy to suspend their disbelief the rest of the way. You got a lot closer than expected with these two.
^^ thanks gold.
yeah, I'm tempted to go and start dumping my lines nowadays and stick with more painterly effect.
Its neat seeing how a style develops in an artist in action!
No, they're not teamates... at least not that I know of. They're just my two most recent pics I've finished up. Figured you guys might want to see 'em.
Trickshooter and Wolfboi