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I'm writing a book, :) YAy, I am pretty excited about finishing it soon. !!! :smt003
I'd like to know what you think of it. Like, what was your first thought when you saw this? Is there ANYTHING I could have done to make it better? :] Your opinions count and mean A LOT! :smt002 If you liked it, press the LIKE! HEHEHhehehe Argg :pirate3:
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My impressions in (rough) order of occurrence:

Messy.
Is that a vampire in the back? With half a head?
What are they standing in front of?
What's with the dark outline of the green and blue shirt?
Was this done in crayon?
The anatomy's not bad.
This would probably have been better if the pencil outlines had been either erased completely or inked.
The composition could use a bit of tweaking. Stuffing another character in the gap in the bottom right corner would work, for starters.
Is that marker I spy?
Marker would have been better for the hair.
Vampire-dude's cut off head annoys me. Maybe make him the character stuffed in the right bottom corner.

And I think that pretty much covers it. In short: in this case, crayon does not a good coloring utensil make. I suggest using colored pencils next time, or all markers. It'll look much more consistent and smooth. Drafting your composition on a separate piece of paper before you begin to draw things out will help prevent things like vampire-guy's head being half cut off and the huge gap to the (our) right of the main girl.
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Hey,
OK so I liked this. It seems good! I guess it would probably make more sense if I knew what the title of the story was and what it was about, but just from seeing it, it looked good.

Now, starting from back to front:
The background: It seems okay. Once again, if I knew what the story was about then the clock would probably make more sense. But then the background around the characters seems kinda wierd. I don't exactly know what it is, but it just seems wierd to me. Sorry, I know I'm not the best at this thing.

Guy in the back: Okay, so this guy isn't 3D enough, I get that it's not supposed to be totally 3D or anything, but the way the other characters look follow a certain, oh what's it called, likliness or something that this guy doesn't have. Plus he's to gray for my liking, add a bit of color to his hair and face and he'd look better I think.

Green sweatshirt kid: So his face is really good! Unfortuantly it's too good for the hoodie that looks just like what it is, a drawing. If you made it look more detailed and not so circleish, that would be great!

Girl with the blue shirt: I have to say that the placement of the mouth is kind of odd, just makes it look odd at least. And she seems to be a bit more straight lines than the others. Oh and plus her pony tail looks kind of wierd, the way the hair sticks out like that.

Black haired guy with the red t-shirt: I like him, he's good. Except for his eyes. They are too straight lined and aren't drawn the same. And the one on the right side doesn't turn up enough.

The one hiding behind the main girl: I don't really see anything wrong with him. But I do want to know a bit more about how he is standing.

The main girl!: I'm hoping I got this right, since she is in the front. She looks nice, I like how she has the most detail. I can't really complain about anything with her...

All in all, I like it! I will try to read your story if you have it on here. Can you please read amd review any of my three stories! There's "The Many Years of Lucy Bigello" which I have kind of stopped writing so yeah, but there's also "A Journey to Freedom" which was a story for my English class, and then "Fairytale: A love story...". You don't have to, but I would like it if you atleast reviewed them for me! PM me with any questions.

Thanks

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I'm going to start by saying this is WAY better than anything I could draw. But as for a book cover it is a bit messy. What's going on with the girl in the front's shirt? Also, I think you would have been better off using maybe pastels to color this. But that's just my opinion. Its not bad by any means.
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This is great draft! Did you did it in crayon? BEcause I could see some inconsistent blank spots. This is great, but it makes me wonder what your story is about. It's a little messy and oddly porportioned. The guy in the back heas is squished and the clock on the side is slightly oddly proprotioned. Other then that, it's a great book covver but needs more work.

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This is very good! I love the style you have drawn in! the girl to the right looks very stiff and a wooden, i suggest you give it more life instead of making her look as straight as a plank, when quite clearly, she shouldn't be. The girl closest to us is very good indeed! Very realistic! I don't know if it was intentional to make her look as if she's sticking her breast out, maybe you should change that, although i don't think you can, you've coloured it in. Her nose is a bit too pointy though. :o
A lot of the others also seem very stiff and wooden, try giving them some life! The man at the back... his head looks too squished and puny, almost as if you were forcing him onto the paper... well... what can you do? use bigger paper :p

Anyway, i really like this! well done

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