Kanna Michi's Dump

I have a new art thread. Please leave comments and tips.

Here's my Naruto character, Kanna Michi.


This is Kanna and her mother, Luna Michi.


This is Kanna and her father, Koyuki Michi.


More will be posted tomorrow.

Ok, here's Jiraiya and Orochimaru as kids.


Here's Temari, Gaara, and Kankuro.

I've been drawing mostly Naruto now. I'll show you a few pictures of my Naruto character, Kanna Michi. I drew other things like Okami Amaterasu, and Midna from TP.

Here's Okami Amaterasu.


Here's Amaterasu as a human or goddess.


Here's Kanna in the Shipp?den.


More will be posted later on today.

You're a pretty good artist, Kanna. You should use more colors, though. Shading would also help. Even if you aren't the best at shading, practice makes perfect. To be honest, though, I'm not the best at shading either, so...

Yeah, I know.

Here's Gaara and his father.


Gaara and his uncle Yashamaru.


Orochimaru, Tsunade, and Jiraiya when they were kids.


Here's Midna.


Last picture of Midna.

Aww man! I wanted to see the Midna ones. I think Midna's awsome. Any way, your good girl! Try drawing Zelda, OK? Just a tip. Anyway, keep up the good luck!

There pretty good! I especially like the Gaara ones since he's my favorite.

I told you, you would get comments

You have a lot of pictures even though you state that you don't consider art.

Already been said, try shading. Even if (yeah, I AM going back to what I said before) you only have one set of colours. Just use what've got (:

Love to see more, more, more!

Originally Posted by Ganon's daughter

I told you, you would get comments

You have a lot of pictures even though you state that you don't consider art.

Already been said, try shading. Even if (yeah, I AM going back to what I said before) you only have one set of colours. Just use what've got (:

Love to see more, more, more!

That's because I PMed them to reply. >.>;

Here's some more. This is more couple stuff now.

Here's Rock Lee kissing Kanna Michi's neck.


Here's Neji Hyuga protecting Kanna.


Here's Kanna and Neji again.


Here's Lee and Kanna. Lee quickly grabbed Kanna, which is why she is elbowing him.


Here's Lee about to kiss Kanna. Feel free to aww.


And last, but not least, Lee kissing Kanna!

Please don't take this the wrong way if I'm incorrect, but do you trace parts of this?

I mean no offence, using a reference to draw more difficult things is commendable and more people should do it, but parts of your stuff seems really good and other parts seem really sloppy and you seem to do the parts that most people have difficulty with best.

Hands, for example, are something many people have difficulty with and you have them down perfectly. Similarly in the 'kissing' pictures you have faces in profile, almost universally considered more difficult, perfect and yet your facing forward faces, less difficult, are not as good.

Weather or not you trace, it's pretty important to put the same amount of effort into the full picture to avoid that misconception if there is one or just avoid a simple clash of styles.

Your OC's hair doesn't appear to have any strands whereas every other character you've drawn does. Hair isn't just one entity and it makes her look really goofy.

Also it's been said before but you need shading. I suggest you check out this tutorial for coloured pencils:

Sup I'm a useful tutorial - LOVE ME! >:0

You might want to look at the rest of Psy's stuff if you're using coloured pencils - the girl is good with the things and her method isn't that hard.

EDIT: I read in another thread that you only have so many shades. You can still do it, though. GD said she didn't advise pressing harder in darker areas, and she has a point but in this case it's something you can't avoid. Look at images shaded with only one colour - lead pencil images for example - and maybe try imitating them but with colours. Then (lightly!) add a little blue/purple in the darker areas. (Test this out before you use it on a serious lineart! I'm not sure how well it'll work.)

Whao, what's with the new thread? What was wrong with the old one. - by the way, your answer will still not be good enough and this one shall be deleted no matter what you say. Heh.

Don't keep on opening new threads unless UNLESS your thread can NOT be found if you look back the pages until number... 4 heh.

Hmm, not bad! Your overall awareness with proportions is fairly clean, but you seem to have very harsh lines. If you're going to do line art, try to make the lines have a more fluid or flowing motion in the direction they're going. In otherwords, less bumpy...am I making sense? XD

Ah! And shade! Shade shade shade. If you're going to color an entire picture like that, then you may as well take the extra bit of effort and add shadows around clothing folds and such ... it'll really spice it up. :] I look forward to seeing more of your work, and if you take these few tips it'd be really good.

*Oh, and I merged both of your threads into one. Having two "Dump" threads with the nearly same artwork/medium isn't exactally enough for it to be considered two separate themes. Just keeps things cleaner around here.

You draw pretty well. You came up with that design for Amaterasu yourself, right? It's really interesting; I go nuts for unique costumes. If anything needs work, it's the colouring. If you can get a good hold on a colouring style, your figures will become more fully defined. Also, try to draw in the hair using different strokes to make it look less like it's solid. Looking off another picture might help. It's tough to master hair, though; I don't think I've really got it myself.

Originally Posted by DekuQueen

Hmm, not bad! Your overall awareness with proportions is fairly clean, but you seem to have very harsh lines. If you're going to do line art, try to make the lines have a more fluid or flowing motion in the direction they're going. In otherwords, less bumpy...am I making sense? XD

Ah! And shade! Shade shade shade. If you're going to color an entire picture like that, then you may as well take the extra bit of effort and add shadows around clothing folds and such ... it'll really spice it up. :] I look forward to seeing more of your work, and if you take these few tips it'd be really good.

*Oh, and I merged both of your threads into one. Having two "Dump" threads with the nearly same artwork/medium isn't exactally enough for it to be considered two separate themes. Just keeps things cleaner around here.

Thank you.


Thanks for all the replys and tips. No, I don't trace.

Here's chibi Neji, Lee, and Tenten.


Here's Chibi Neji, Lee, and Gaara!

Wow. o_o

You are- fantastic! You're wonderful, Kanna!

The only things that I can see a tad problem with are proportions, and shading, but other than that- you're quite talented. <3

My favorite is the one with Temari, Gaara, and Kankuro. ^^;

First off: ZU's buggy x_x, it doubleposts whenever I edit then when I delete one of the posts it deletes both. Fortuanately I copied (and hey, it seem's I'm not the only one if you get my drift) before I deleted just in case :3. I'd have hated to lose all these links.

Anyway, onto the post

Originally Posted by Kanna Michi

Thanks for all the replys and tips. No, I don't trace.

Yes, yes you do.

Say Cheeeeese -Gaara and Lee- by ~lucrecia on deviantART

Direct comparison:



(The only reason they don't overlap completely is that I was too lazy to keep messing with the sizes)

I knew you were tracing and I gave you a chance to call it a reference, credit the original artist and keep some of your dignity. You threw it away and lied instad. You're disgusting.

EDIT: List of originals I've found so far

Say Cheeeeese -Gaara and Lee- by ~lucrecia on deviantART
Naruto: -Team Gai- by ~MooguriKlaine on deviantART
Naruto Lee Gaara Neji Sasuke by ~dark-klaus on deviantART
Amaterasu, Goddess of the Sun by ~bumman on deviantART
Naruto - Booyah by ~NorthernBanshee on deviantART

EDIT AGAIN:

Sand Sibs Stamp by *Luffy-kun on deviantART

Another, though it's shrunk for a graphic and they don't know who the original artist is either it does prove that a CGed version of your 'own' art exists and the stamp's dated January 23 so the original must be older than that.