The first yellow top left is more easier on the eyes to look at,. Pretty much yellow in general after looking at it for awhile kinda messes your sight up a bit aha. Also the orange squares still seem a bit more vibrant than what you were going for in your grey scale, like you said, do to your brightness, but I still they can use a little "cooling" because they are obviously the nosiest part of the work. Also I didn't even notice the white until you said so, so that should tell you something, the yellow doesn't have enough contrast from the white. I think you should make the yellow less vibrant a little bit more.

Edit:  Also the forum has a built in zoom function(left click on the image) and to zoom out you press control and left click the image again.

I thought your piece could use a bit of contrast,  I probably went a bit overboard, and then for some reason graphicsgale added more colors to it when I used the tool.. I think it was because teh alpha background messed with it. But yeah, I don't know what it was about your light source, but it seemed weird so I jsut made it come from the top. Also I wouldn't use that white as a highlight because it makes your elephant have a "metallic" look to it.

Edit: Just noticed I messed the Trunk abit its too thin, oh well. And I left the hair 1 color because I'm not proficient enough with hair atm to give you any tips on it

Sorry for bad edit, I just didn't like the colors and I wanted to make the octopus look more rounded, instead of flat, which you can achieve by doing simple things with a shadow.

I also think this can benefit from some selective outlining as well.

Quote from: e4r on June 21, 2012, 08:31:03 pm

asdasdasfasd

All you need to know is feel the reference's model if you wish to create a similar result...

Thanks ill use your model to help me finish it tonight, sorry for the second post below, didn't notice myself click quote again