Hey Alisa! I love your work, you have done an amazing job of following along with Aveline's assignments :)

To keep your feedback simple, I have chosen to refer to your night-time lighting scenario. Check out the tips and images I have attached below, I hope they help :)

• When you are illustrating an environment a good practice for adding depth is to ensure your foreground uses more saturated colors than your background. Currently they are at a similar level of saturation, this is something you can adjust using your ‘Hue, Saturation and Brightness’ tool.
• Around the edge of your highlights and shadows you may have a soft line that is a more saturated color.
• Folds on clothing usually follow a triangular draping pattern down from where they hang from the body. In this case her sweatshirt would mostly be draping from her shoulders. When in doubt with drawing folds in an outfit, a reference picture can make things much easier!
• If you have warmer tones in your foreground, make the color pop even more by using an ‘Overlay Layer’ to add cooler colors to the background.

I have attached some images with tips and edits to help guide you through this process. Let me know if you have any questions :)

Hi Nida!

Wow, you did such a great job of applying the techniques from this course! I love that you've put your own characters into the scenes as well! I only have a few small notes for you.

For the Night Scene:

• Increase the glow in the night scene! Use a soft brush to lighten that part of the scene (I used a light yellow with a soft-light layer setting)

• Add more highlights/rim lighting on the night scene as well. Make sure you have lots of contrast and really make the most of the fun lighting!

For the Day Scene:

• Because you have made most of the background quite light, try and keep that somewhat consistent. Keep the background light, and the foreground more dark. Keeping this contrast makes it easier to see the characters as seperate from the background and makes it easier to read.

*Add a few extra shadows to reflect the size of the skirt/around the skirt to imply more 3D form

You've done such a fantastic job with these, and they're honestly great the way they are! Well done!

Hi Lana!

This is such a cute drawing! It's very lively and there is a great personality coming from them!

When drawing cats focus very much on the flow - lots of round fluid movements. The line of action will be very important for their poses.

For this particular drawing I just have a couple suggestions!

• Push the snout slightly further forward. This will help make the head feel a little more round and improve the sense of dimension. Think of the base of the head not as a circle, but as a sphere!

• When drawing complicated shapes like limbs, especially when they're folded up, think about how each segment is a basic shape. Using the right amount of lines, you can force a sense of perspective by overlaying some with others. In this case, you can add a couple extra lines to make the back leg seem more like it is bent away from the "camera".

• Use the tail to emphasize the sense of movement! Follow the line of action you already have moving through the pose! Treat it as an extention of this. But also try to consider where the dog was in space before - the tail can have a very lovely flow to it if it is shaped as though it is coming from where the dog was just a moment ago. You were very close to this I think, but lowering it slightly makes it feel less like the dog has dropped down very suddenly.

It's great to hear that you loved the course! I hope you continue to draw more fun animals in the future!

Hi!

Thank you for sending in your painting! This is incredible work. The subject is beautiful and your use of color is mind-blowing!

You could maybe try to have the hair on the chin flow in more various and natural directions. Even with the head clearly in motion within the scene and the hair following in the same direction, I think there could be a little more variation.

You can check out the attachments for a more visual explanation!  I hope you’ll find them helpful!  Don’t hesitate to ask if you have any more questions and I wish you a beautiful day!

Hi Marjolijn!

I'm glad to hear you enjoyed the course! I'm a huge fan of the way you used the brushes and the colors! Your characters have a lot of personality and I think your final drawing looks really professional.

Keep up the great work and have a fantastic day!

Hey Makdessi! These illustrations look amazing! You have done a great job of using the lighting and shading techniques from this course :)

Here are a few feedback suggestions that you could try in future illustrations/ to improve these:

• In areas of your character that are highlighted, change the colour of your line-art to a colour brighter than the highlighted area.
• Additionally, it can look nice if you set your line-art to a darkened version of an ambient colour in your image rather than black.
• Add soft shadows to objects that aren't in direct light.
• For your night-time scene, you could decrease the saturation of the background and perhaps add even more blur to make your character stand out even more.

Try these out and see what you think! Wishing you a creative week, Rhea

Hello Polina! I love your drawings, they are so gorgeous! Thanks for sharing them :)

Check out my feedback below and notes I have added to your drawing! I hope you find them helpful :)

• Don’t be afraid to use ‘Overlay’ blending layers with vivid colors to help establish the time of day, especially for the sunset and daytime photos.
• In the indoor scene: the walls and the character should be in soft shadow due to the backlighting from the window.
• Your character has a few spots on their face that might have highlights including their: eyes, nose, lips and cheekbones.
• Your overcast lighting scenario could be de-saturated to convey the gray-diffused light source. This is something you can adjust using the ‘Hue, Saturation and Brightness’ tool.
• Even on an overcast day you will still have some soft shadows where clothes fold or different objects meet each other.
• You can try and make the direction of your light source more clear by adding color variation to your sky using an overlay or multiply layer.
• When in doubt, practice by studying photographs! This can be a great way to learn about illustrating hard shadows.

I have attached some images with tips and edits to help guide you through this process. Let me know if you have any questions :)

Hi Louise!

This is such a great drawing so far!

I do recommend trying to start a drawing with the basic shapes before you get too far into detail to make sure that the drawing has a solid foundation.

• Break things into spheres and cylinders. Spheres for the head and joints, and cylinders for the limbs and snout. Using these as a guide and it will help add dimension

• Another thing that will add dimension is layering one shape of the other. Having a shape hidden behind another will instantly add a sense of 3D.

• Think about their skeleton! Look at where their bones bend. This is the natural basic building of an animal. You don't have to draw every bone, but you can break it into areas - The ribcage as one oval, the pelvis as another. The forearm bone as a cylinder, the joints as spheres. It helps a lot to understand how a creature can move and bend, and how they can't.

You're well on the right track and each drawing you have done is very expressive and has lovely poses, good job!