CommentsDevious Commentswow, another critique on this one
yea, hands and feet aren't exactly my strong points, i'm i'm working on it as for the hands on the girl who's being kiss, i was trying to portray a shyness on her, and looking at it again, it does look like she's about to punch him LOL and that shoulder >_< I NEVER NOTICED IT UNTIL NOW!!! I'm such a failure hahhaa, well, again, thank you for the critique, it gave me some good pointers that i will keep in mind in the future, thanks -- Come check out my DA profile [link] [link] [link] body language for shyness would be better portrayed by her leaning away from the kiss maybe? so leaned back on one hand with the other hand up, thinking about touching him back? i think maybe that would work better to get the spine-punching impression out of her. xDD
you are not a failure, you did really well. :] so keep it up. >w< -- あなた |
Three major tenets of character acting are the face, teh hands, and the feet. Because the faces on most of the characters are obstructed, we're left to retrieve the acting from visual cues in what you've left us with: the hands. The character inside the room in the yellow jumper has her hands balled into fists. She looks like she's going to punch that dude in the throat with all that tension. To alleviate this, I'd suggest giving her hands a more relaxed position. Maybe touching his elbow or, at the very least, laying open on her knees instead.
On your main character, I'd like to see the other hand doing something. Yes, she is sad, but what is the underlying emotion? If she loves one of these two people she could be hurt, angry, any sort of thing along those lines to give depth to that emotion. I feel because you were able to get the sadness in her, you are capable of deepening that emotion to make it more evocative. Having her hand splayed against the wall, for example, would give the impression of stress. Having her arm crossed in front of her would give the impression that she is comforting herself, denoting that she feels hurt. Visual cues such as these connect the scene in the room with the girl outside of it. Outside of this, I think her shoulders are uneven, our left (her right) one being higher than the other. Because her elbows are on the same general plane, it gives the impression that her shoulders would be pulled up to about the same area. The extra push up of the left (her right) shoulder just seems to obscure that she has a neck since it's up too far. :]
Very nice piece of work! I think it was very successful! Keep it up!