Is it warm in here?

Ok, so time for another original piece. Yay!

Anyway, I mostly made it up as I went along. I realised that if I kept going it would end up looking like the full size drawing I did a while ago so I added the wavy hair. Then I realised I had little room for anything else I may have had in mind and so went ahead and tried my hand at drawing in the arm behind the head there. I never knew I'd actually be looking at my own arm is a similar pose in order to get it right.

Anyway, I got it coloured up real nice, though you probably can't tell from the scanned image. I might actually redo this one again once I get my next couple of projects done and out of the way, mainly because drawing the arm 20 times or so marked the paper badly, but also because I feel I could have done better somehow. I can't quite put my finger on it though. Oh well.

Anyway, if I can find some decent references, expect some Alis related art to follow in the same vein next.

Ooo...very NICE Xander. The wavy hair works really well in this piece. Me being me, I like to find some small piece of constructive criticism to make, and it's this...her body looks almost TOO narrow, to the point of looking a bit unrealistic. So maybe something to work on in the future. That said, the narrow body fits in quite nicely with the style of the piece.

Well, all the more to note when I get round to re-drawing her in future. Thanks.

Is it warm? I think so!

Wow, nicely done Xander. I really like this piece. =D

I've only a few things to say to help you improve AS CW said, the body is too narrow, I also think the head is slightly too big, and the arm behind the head, looks a tiny bit too thin compared to the other. But seriously dude, great job. You are improving immensely as an artist and I feel like I ought to bust out my pencil and paper now. =D

Ok so thick neck, small body, small left arm. I think I just wasn't paying attention most of the time I was sizing it up. My bad. Well at least I have proper grounds for redrawing it now, though I might just do a completely different pose. I'll see how I feel about doing that left arm.

I was told the ears are too small somewhere else, but I'm not so sure about that. I think someone's confusing her with Nei.

Anyway, thanks guys.

Well, I think her ears look fine. Rika's ears are just a lot shorter than Nei's.

The colouring looks great. Well done

If anything Xan, I think her ears could be slightly thicker. Otherwise it's perfectly fine.

Well I'll bear that in mind. I'll see about making a start on the new one today. Come to think of it, their placement doesn't look quite right either.