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Hello and Happy Holidays, friend! I'm here as a part of this year's Critmas, bringing joy to others through helpful, positive constructive comments! I found your piece in the Newest Deviations section, or more specifically your then and now meme, and I loved to see just how much you improved!
The first thing I noticed about this piece was how fantastic your lighting has gotten. It's your strong suit for sure and it looks believable. There's a good amount of detail in the strands on its mane and I love how you delineated the muscles with the soft lighting. The piece has good composition as well, with the character not directly in the center of the piece, and the focal point follows the rule of thirds pretty well. Dunno if this was intentional, but I'll commend you on it regardless!
I think my biggest piece of advice is to start working more on your backgrounds. The background here is very plain and uninteresting, and on a completely different level of artistry than the character. That is to say that it's not nearly as good, and needs to be improved to catch up with the rest of your skills. Backgrounds are highly dependent on the piece, but try to practice with more detailed backgrounds first to really get the hang out it before moving onto simpler backgrounds. It's up to you, of course, but I feel like this is the best way to go out it, personally.
With how dark this piece is, I think darkening the background, especially around the edges, could've brought the focal point in to the horse's eye; but this is highly dependent on the type of background you want (among some other factors). If you redrew this again with, say, a more detailed background, then attempting to darken the edges and corners would clash with that. But if you wanted to go with a simpler background like you already have, then it may work to your advantage.
Finally, remember to keep contrast in mind for a piece like this, where the focal point is a character. It tends to be helpful to keep the backgrounds as a lower contrast than the character to make them stand out. If you take your piece, and put it in black and white, the eye certainly stands out, but the background and the horse have very similar colors.
Overall, this is a very well composed piece. The lighting is just gorgeously done (seriously, amazing job there! Such improvement!) and while I hadn't mentioned it before, the horse's anatomy is really good! It looks like you used a reference, or at least have a good knowledge of horse anatomy. Just work on your backgrounds and you'll get them down in no time!
I love his teeth. Just everything about them.
Hope anything I've said here helps! If you have questions or need clarification, lemme know and I'll be happy to respond! Happy Holidays and a very Happy New Year, my friend!
The first thing I noticed about this piece was how fantastic your lighting has gotten. It's your strong suit for sure and it looks believable. There's a good amount of detail in the strands on its mane and I love how you delineated the muscles with the soft lighting. The piece has good composition as well, with the character not directly in the center of the piece, and the focal point follows the rule of thirds pretty well. Dunno if this was intentional, but I'll commend you on it regardless!
I think my biggest piece of advice is to start working more on your backgrounds. The background here is very plain and uninteresting, and on a completely different level of artistry than the character. That is to say that it's not nearly as good, and needs to be improved to catch up with the rest of your skills. Backgrounds are highly dependent on the piece, but try to practice with more detailed backgrounds first to really get the hang out it before moving onto simpler backgrounds. It's up to you, of course, but I feel like this is the best way to go out it, personally.
With how dark this piece is, I think darkening the background, especially around the edges, could've brought the focal point in to the horse's eye; but this is highly dependent on the type of background you want (among some other factors). If you redrew this again with, say, a more detailed background, then attempting to darken the edges and corners would clash with that. But if you wanted to go with a simpler background like you already have, then it may work to your advantage.
Finally, remember to keep contrast in mind for a piece like this, where the focal point is a character. It tends to be helpful to keep the backgrounds as a lower contrast than the character to make them stand out. If you take your piece, and put it in black and white, the eye certainly stands out, but the background and the horse have very similar colors.
Overall, this is a very well composed piece. The lighting is just gorgeously done (seriously, amazing job there! Such improvement!) and while I hadn't mentioned it before, the horse's anatomy is really good! It looks like you used a reference, or at least have a good knowledge of horse anatomy. Just work on your backgrounds and you'll get them down in no time!
I love his teeth. Just everything about them.
Hope anything I've said here helps! If you have questions or need clarification, lemme know and I'll be happy to respond! Happy Holidays and a very Happy New Year, my friend!