Cherrys Fantasies

Well, I try to vary line width quite a bit for my colouring book pages. But they're not commissioned of course. Anyway, digitally the easiest way would probably to just turn off pen pressure?

Smooth lines (if you don't have software that includes line smoothing, such as Artrage and Manga Studio): lazynezumi.com

Cherry, I agree with Dom about the hair and the neck looking a bit off, but since I love Art Nouveau I couldn't resist comparing it to the most similar ones of Mucha's images that I could think of, and do a little line over trying to mimic his outlines. Of course you might not want your image to look like a Mucha replica but anyway, there are three things I see:

• the hair (not necessarily where it hides the forehead since it folds, but higher up there should be more skull + hair)
• the neck (it seems a bit too slender as is)
• the right shoulder (this of course depends on the exact posture which is hard to see underneath the clothes, but it still seems to me the shoulder is a bit too wide)

Dom: yes the fishies were from my "colouring book" (of a whopping three pages so far). Like Banj points out ArtRage has a smoothing option so that certainly helps, and beyond that I mostly try to use line weight to show what's at the front and what's further back. Both generally and where shapes overlap.

I thought it might just be the light from the moon. But it reads better if the two are not the same (or if you get the line work in there )