Scizor

[ShinyGyarados]

Just a Scizor I made Saturday and colored today.

[sesshomaru]

Kool,I can never draw that good!!!

[Phoenixsong]

That's really quite an impressive Scizor you've got there! I especially like the shading... I can never shade so that it actually looks like metal, dagnabbit... actually, I can't really shade well at all, which makes me incredibly jealous of people like you. I have but three suggestions for you:

1. (Useful suggestion)- The Scizor looks a little stiff and flat (barring the luvverly shading, of course). Pictures drawn dead-on from the side or front have a tendency to look that way. Try drawing from other angles, such as looking down at it/up at it, 3/4 view instead of profile, etc. It would add even more life to your Scizor.

2. (Hypocritical suggestion)- I really have no right to tell anyone this, as I do it myself all the time, but... you REALLY should take the time to get a good piece of paper to draw on. Lined/graph/scrap paper can really ruin an otherwise beautiful pic with printed text, doodles and evil blue lines. Of course, this could just be a "cursed" pic (i.e., you were just doodling on yucky paper because that's all that was at hand and you had no intention of making a finished picture, but then your "yucky random boredness doodle on bad paper" keeps looking better and better until it becomes a "very very nice show-offable masterpice finished picture on bad paper"...) *sigh* I know I kill more pics that way. If you like the way a yucky bad paper pic turns out, you might want to try tracing it over on good paper before you color/ink/do whatever to finish it. Just a tip from me, the Queen of Hypocrisy.

3. (Even more useful suggestion) Keep up the good work! All in all, that is definitely a wonderful pic and I'd like to see more. (Only next time use prettier paper.)

*runs away and hides because she's a hypocrite who talks too much*

[Agent Elrond]

Very cool! My only gripe, like Phoenixsong, is the lined paper. Ouch. But other than that it's all good.

Very nice coloring and shading, although it would be nice if there was a bit more in dynamism (word?) in the pose, but that would just be for future reference.

Scizor is cool, you don't see much fanart of it these days, keep up the good work.

[ShinyGyarados]

Well, at first I WAS just doodling around, not really intending to actually finish it since I never do, so I just used regular old notebook paper rather than the printer paper I normally use. I was trying to add a bit of an angle to the body, but it didn't really come out the way I expected, (it's a bit noticable in the shoulder, in that odd angle it was placed in.. >_>).