Hoo boy…it’s been WAY too long since I last posted here.
The progress you’ve made on the embroidery looks great!
Are you going to have room for Littlefoot’s tail, though? :unsure: I still think Cera and Petrie look the best. Littlefoot’s head, unfortunately, looks too large for his body, but I guess that can’t be changed now. (By the way, the reason I was so hesitant about pointing out areas for improvement in this piece before is precisely because it’s such a time-intensive project on which it’s extremely difficult to make corrections.)
Your latest picture is very nice.
All of the characters are very well drawn, and the background is surprisingly good given its relative simplicity (though I could be wrong; :unsure: maybe it was more complicated to make than it looks). You did a really nice job doing a dense forest with lots of trees close together. The texturing of the background isn’t bad, either.
Spike, Littlefoot, and Cera are all excellent, Cera’s eyes and frill, and her and Littlefoot’s dorsal ridges, being details I particularly like. Spike’s ridge looks a little wide, and the scutes or bumps comprising it are too large and unevenly shaped. Littlefoot’s snout looks too long for his head, and there shouldn’t be a line dividing it from his forehead. There should be an uninterrupted slope from his forehead to the top of his snout tip, with a slight bulge in it where his nostrils are (Speaking of which, he also has no nostrils in this picture).
As for Cera, her snout also shouldn’t extend so far forward, but also her toes are a little off. On her back feet, they are all aligned side-by-side, facing the exact same direction. As the quadrupedal characters’ feet are rounded, her toes should splay a little, and some should be farther forward than others. The front part of the foot itself should also protrude a little more from the front of the ankle. The same applies to her front feet, though the toe alignment is not nearly as straight. Also, there shouldn’t be so little space between the heel of her right front foot and her innermost toe.
Ducky looks very good here.
She’s more upright than I think she should be, and it looks like her tail is a little short, but other than that, I think it’s one of your best pictures of her so far.
The proportions of her arms and legs look pretty good (even though her hands are a bit small), and the proportions of her head and beak are great. Two things she’s missing, though, are eyelashes and the darker green stripe on her back.
Petrie is fantastic. That’s an interesting position you put him in: he seems to be leaning against Ducky, with one leg (his left) bent back at the knee. One minor suggestion is that his crest ought to be slightly upturned. Another is that maybe the bend of his right knee shouldn’t be so sharp, while his left should be the opposite; it should be more distinctly bent and perhaps with some shading or little flexion lines to indicate that the lower part of the leg is bent back. The last is that his right leg shouldn’t be entirely separated from his body by a line. Recently I had a discussion with Sky about an essentially identical issue with one of his pictures (links
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Maybe it would look best if a bit of the body outline extended past the lines where the legs meet the body, but the center of the area of the leg was contiguous with the body, with no line dividing it (Basically, it would be what you have now with the center of the leg/body dividing line erased, but leaving a little on each side).
Chomper is pretty good. I think the overall shape of his body and legs is very well done. His right hind leg in particular looks very good. Maybe his tail should be slightly longer, and his arms a tiny bit shorter, with the hands a little larger and more distinct from the wrists. Also his snout and jaws should be longer and deeper.
I think Ruby looks great.
For some reason I really like how you did the shading on her beak. One potential area of improvement is the proportioning of her legs. Comparison to what Ruby’s accurate appearance aside, the legs you drew are very well done, in my opinion. Ruby, however, has much longer ankles, and very short shins. Her feet and neck are also a bit longer. Finally, her hands look too small, and have only three fingers (even though real oviraptorids were three-fingered, it would be truer to Ruby’s LBT design to give her four, especially if you’re still drawing Chomper with an extra finger).
Okay, here’s my idea of what Chomper might be saying in this picture:
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“I didn’t know Cera’s dad liked to nap in those bushes! I thought that tail belonged to a scaly creeper! Now he’s talking to the other grownups about throwing me out of the valley! Do you think if I brought him a bunch of ground crawlers as an apology he would be less mad at me?”
