Two New Drawings: Christmas Pictures

[Turtles]

well, its christmas time, and in French class we have to use images in a project, so I drew some and then scanned them and edited them in gimp. Unfortunately my scanner isn't that great, so they're somewhat low quality, but they look alright. These are based on a poem, "Le Nuit Magique de Noel," so the starcatching one doesnt make much sense out-of-context.

I used a lot of smudge, dodge, burn, paintbrush tool and Airbrush tool in these.
I may just remove the moon in this one, cus I couldnt figure out anything really nice to do w/ it... dunno. might make the bg black.
Starcatcher (Original):

Starcatcher (GIMP Edit):

pretty simple picture, just colorized and used burn to make the ribbon darker.
Cadeaux (Original):

Cadeaux (GIMP Edit):

Ive got two more Im working on that Ill post later.

Freedback would be great.

well, spent a bit more time on the stars one. Added a sky. Improved the moon and bag. Messed w/ the snow. Changed the star so it has a "glow" to it.

 

[The_wand_mirror]

French is gay.

The last one looks a bit odd.. like painted but done with wax thingies or something, that was the one computer edited right?

The sack and the parts of the suit look good.

 

[Turtles]

The last one looks a bit odd.. like painted but done with wax thingies or something, that was the one computer edited right?

The sack and the parts of the suit look good.

ya, edited w/ GIMP. This is the first time Ive done this (edited a drawing on the comp) so it was a bit of an experiment.

 

[Pyritie]

Just so you know, lots of people (especially TDR) go berserk when they see someone using dodge, burn, smudge, or a combination of all three.

It's always best to do the shading manually, by picking darker colors and going over the areas that are in shadow.