Finally you finished that reference sheet! The shadings turned out more stunning than I thought, seriously! It gave the single poses so much more depth and expression, never expected such a great diffrence. Also you added some more gloweffects on the single Neo´s squills, didn´t you? Looks really better than a simple white... let´s call it " exposure ", don´t know how to paraphrase > light effects < right now

And more thing to the artist´s comment, overused glow effects?
Dude, exactly that´s the point which makes you so unique as artist! When I look through my uncountable deviations per day I notice your works at first. I guess nobody can use it as well as you , seriously. Also it suits your charactere very well! His colour scheme suits the glow pretty nice. Moreover I think, because your character is supposed to be a singer and loves music, that the glow also suits the impression of music
The bright colours you´re using, the brushes, it matches each other in any way ! You really got some neat coloring taste.

Allright, let´s start with the critique :3

First, I´ve never seen such a bright reference sheet before, seriously. The bright blue background emphasizes the single revs amazingly good, especially with this little white frame and the glow around each other. Without it would have looked more or less confusal, because the grey of the hedgehog´s fur and the blue/turquoise merges with each other , good eye dude!

Also the idea with the little colour references is neat, you seperated them from the parts for the upper part of the body and the legs/shoes etc., didn´t you ?
And actually I like the little guitars pretty much :3 Awesome little detail, as well as the frame, which seperates the single characters from each other! It´s no simple blank line, you added some effects, too. That´s simply brilliant, because while mentioning it, I always take a look on the artwork again and again but it just doesn´t look overfilled with all these highlights and details.
There´re so many artists who try to add dozends of details, but in the end it looks totally overcrowded and immense.

The only negative thing I noticed in this reference background is the text in the bottom left corner. I think you should have put it more to the right so the sentences doesn´t get that close to the artwork´s edge. The same goes for the guitar colour patches. They´re too close to the bottom, looks like you cut some of the lenght away somehow.
But well, I guess that´s just a very little detail xD

Next the diffrent character poses.
I sometimes notice some anatomy deviations ( in the meaning of swerves ) on your characters. Speaking of fingers, positions of legs and thickness of feeds or other parts of the body etc. ( oh lord, please don´t think I mean it harsh or something, I just want to be honest ) but this time I really found nothing striking. The opposite: You did an excellent job on the diffrent outfits, poses and expressions! You succeed with getting them representing the moment the character is in right now :now:

The first version´s pose looks pretty relaxed and carefree, good idea with bringing in the Ipod, it gives a reason for the pose, why he is moving like that [: speaking of the arm and expression :]. -Also you did a good job on the perspective of his shoe soles, it can be pretty hard sometimes to give them corpulence-.
Yet I´ve seen your character as more absorbed in his thoughts and music ~
( more, not only o3o mentioning something to this later~ )


The second one´s outfit is simply brilliant
The jacket suits Neo excellent
It really gives this " rockstar " impression somehow, because of the black colour scheme and... well, the micro xD
But apart from this, the glasses fits him great as well.
I just think that his left hand, which´s supposed to hold the micro, doesn´t really give the impression of holding it.
Either I´m searching for some failers meticulously or the critique window is too little, but still it doesn´t look like it´d clasp the objekt.

I guess the third version is my personal favourite
I just love his clothes, the red jacket, the black trousers, the green visor with the neat light reflections, the boots with the pretty unique soles (!) and the charming pose :]
Another great colour combination, seriously, you exactly hit my second favourite taste of colour with these outfits! ( yea, second, my most favourite is this camouflage pattern...)
But this time I definitive noticed something on his hand, Muhaha.
A lof of people draw the hand, which braces the character on his hip, like this. The fingers aren´t that close together like a fist, they´re scattered. I found a little ( and pretty crazy ) tutorial about some finger positions. Scroll down and you´ll find it. >> [link] <<
( Is he using now Airbords or Hover shoes ? Or both ? )

The fourth outfit looks totally.. well, black.
I have to admit, I pretty like his style in this one. Especially the expression !!! This innocent look to the side, the shading around the eyes and under the strains, because of the crossed arms he also looks a bit bothered somehow. Really fantastic!
But he turned out a bit tall, don´t you think ? Comprehended to the other poses? I think his legs got too long, they should end where the half of the boots starts - In my view-.
Also his clothes appear a bit too dark to me. No doubt, I love black, but the color merges around the thighs and so do the legs. Put a bit more light on the edges of each leg to delimit them and clarify where the one starts and the other ends :3
( it´s the shark-hog, eh ;D )
I´m curious, have you changed something on the lineart after sending it to me on MSN? If not, it must be the little critique window, squizzing the image together...)

-Nothing to say -
...allright, I cant resit |D
Great work on the anatomy in this one, as well as on the expression xD
His feeds turned out a bit bulky, the curve above the toe goes in the wrong direktion. I found a little and usefull foot tutorial, if you´re going to draw Neo naked again
[: [link] :]

Last, the back view.
Honestly, you did an awesome job on this pose! It´s hard to draw hedgehogs from the back, because of the squills and the perspective of the shoes. His pants turned out pretty well, you shaded out the folds really good, well done! Also I like the little tail, juts ouf of the trousers. Dunno, don´t ask xD
I noticed you draw your character more proportioned than other people do. You gave Neo a real body and not a simple Sonic related shape. I really have to admit, I love this! These characters looks so much better with more detail, with necks and such
But his right arm appears a bit too thick to me. Also his right shoe sould be more positioned to the right as well. The feeds stay too close together. All in all I like it, especially the little glows on the spines ;D

Last but not least:
- The emotions!

I like how you did the little chibi emotion expressions of Neo. There´re not so many but I can imagine him reacting to things with facial expressions. Why not making an " emotion challenge " dude ? I´d like to see Neo interacting with all these diffrent expressions xD Oh no, I bet someone´s going to tag you now after reading this
I think there was still space for two more chibis but well, matter of taste I guess. Still I like this part :3

Vision

You indeed succeed with a vision, what theme could be better than a reference sheet? You did a great job on all the diffrent outfits, the details, the expressions and colours, the shadings and light effects and the bio.
To make it even more detailed I would have added more to his bio. Like " home ", " friends " ( his bandfellows, I guess they´re pretty important in his life story, don´t they? ), and maybe even a little sketch of his house or city.

Originality

Allright, four stars. The originality express execution or approach, a fresh style or something totally new in this particular genre. To be honest, almost everyone has a reference sheet, so it´s nothing new. In addition, Neo is a hedgehog character and in meantime there exist way too many of them. People say they´re > overused < now. I don´t exactly know when you created Neo but I guess it was before this overpopulation of hedgehogs. Poor thing that so many prejudice almost every character of that species as recolour, since Neo looks pretty original because of his hairstyle, the colour and his interests
One more thing for the originality-
you gave him all these diffrent outfits, the new styles and expressions. So it´s definitive an improvement of the character´s look and design
Also I´ve never seen such an extravagant reference, seriously!

Technique

Some little anatomy things, nothing really worse. Most you succeed with the poses
Especially with the backview of Neo, I hate drawing characters from this view D:
The way you put the brushes is also pretty cool, they bring some more fullness to the background. ~

Impact

Do me a favour dude, keep your bright and shiny style, your art is even more remarkable just because of this -little- detail.
_{Ha, pretty short, eh?}



All in all you did an sumptuously job on this. I see you care about your character pretty much. Will we see more of them of Kyle and the others? Hopefully!
Sorry for the lame end but we gotta go to my uncle´s birthday now, see ya !

If there is any point you don´t understand, plase, don´t hesitate to tell me! I don´t meant anything harsh, ya know it dude :3

-S.A
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Sorry for grammar failers D:}