Thanks, you guys are awesome! You know Le Bello you give some wonderful tips for cas, you're gonna go places someday I can feel it xD... But yes I think I actually made the suit the brightest white but dulling down the brightness does seem to make a lot of sense :o
Well it's nice to have some awesome designs. The more people share the more we care, or something less Saturday morning special sounding :P
I give wonderful tips? So they say. I just like to be honest, but thank you! :)
It's the Naruto effect. Stealthy Ninja wearing bright orange? Sure ok logic.
Now, onto you latest works:
(I can definitely see that your camera brightens up the image, so I'll bear that in mind.)
That
Autumnal design is absolutely LUSH. At first I thought the shoes looked a bit childish in comparison to a more mature attire, and yet the more I look the more they fit - After all, Natsu isn't an entirely serious character, so they still have an elegance to them. Superb work, I may just steal it.
The bow on the back however sticks out with it's lack of texture. It matches the shorts of course, but being position on the midriff where you have the patterned kimono and the sheaths makes it really obvious. Have you considered using the gradient pattern, or one of the two-colour animal ones? If you take the tiger pattern, for example, and colour both channels the same colour, then you get some lovely auto-texturing without it looking like she's skinned a tiger.
Of course I JUST read the comment so uh, fair does. Haha, oh =/
Dreamily crazed. Like she's thinking about her crush, and how she's going to punish him for something.
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Town kimono Natsu doesn't appeal to me, I'm sorry to say. I'm not fond of the colours, and the fact that they're everywhere isn't helping :P Of course our tastes differ and I recognise this isn't something constructive, so instead I'll point out that if you can recolour the belt to something that stands out a lot more, it'll go a long way to improving the flow of the design. Something bright and bold, like a strong red or a brighter pink perhaps?
I do like the hairpiece though.
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Armour Natsu is fraggin GORGEOUS. I know you called it heavy armour, but it's still light enough that she wouldn't look ridiculous acrobating about in it, and whilst I've seen that sticker used as a chest plate before, but it looks particularly well done here.
The design itself tells me it SHOULD look generic, but it certainly doesn't. Maybe it's the expertly chosen colour scheme, or maybe it's because the snowflake pattern looks almost like floral embellishment, I don't know, but it's certainly lovely. Could I easily imagine this being an official alt costume? Yes. Very much so.
The third picture has everything brightened again, but if the true colours are the ones in the first two images, then it's perfect as far as I'm concerned.
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Warrior Natsu is an interesting one. My initial thought was how Egyptian it looked, though that's not something that stuck around long. It's mysterious enough though, certainly.
Sadly though there's something about it I just can't get on with, it looks a bit uncomfortable somehow, and I think it's mainly the light chestpiece with the relatively heavy arms that's making me think that? I believe that's down to personal preference rather than an objective statement though, so don't pay it much heed.
What I can say is that there're some incredibly neat little touches here and there. The shorts/stocking combo is suitable and appealing,
The colouration is nice, particularly as the last shot shows the red off a bit more, which contrasts nicely to the gold you chose. I also LOVE the feathered arm-guards, I think it adds a great little detail, and makes the angles of the design more interesting and less original.
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Well, I hope you realise you're producing some of the best designs I've seen for a while.
