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Deviousness `anmari has been spreading her infectious positivity throughout our community for over 6 years. Throughout this time Ana has been at the core of all things devious, passionately developing an eclectic gallery, helping organise devmeets, participating in chat events and also recently completed dedicating her time as a Community Volunteer. We are absolutely delighted to bestow the Deviousness Award for May 2013 to `anmari, congratulations! Read More
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I'd say though, in my personal opinion, you may want to better define the outline of the image depending on what look you were going for. You did say in your comments that you were looking for a more rough and shady effect, but the blurriness may be a bit unsettling for some.
What may work would be putting the lioness against a coloured background (say grey, or a shade of orange, oh oh or sky blue) that wouldn't totally ruin your work but rather enhance it. I'm assuming this is a digital piece?
I'd say she could do with some more shadows around the neck area, as well. The way you've defined it is enough as it is, but if you want to suggest depth more (depending on how far forward her head is from her body), this may be something to consider.
Oh, as a side note, I'd say stick a few highlights on her eyes to show the reflection of light. Though if she's actually hanging around in the dark, you can ignore this. haha
I'd also try and mix those darker shadows in with the normal fur colour, if that makes sense? For example, the front right leg. Though it creates a nice illusion of depth, it's just a little too dark in my opinion. This isn't because it's wrong, but rather it's lacking some bold secondary shading. A good example of this is actually towards the front left paw, you've mixed two colours, perhaps more, besides one another before tapering right up to the lioness' base fur colour, and the effect works well!
The same rule should apply to the left hind leg.
I'm not sure if I've explained this properly; if I haven't, please let me know!
I dunno if you'd want to do this, as it's just a rough image like you say, but I'd love to see you hint at the certain flecks of fur I can see in the original photograph. I used this tutorial back when I was painting the two dogs to help with different types of fur (in this lionesses' case, it's rather short fur in most areas), I think this is it? [link] (I reckon you've seen it before as it's popular, but might be worth a recap?)
All in all though, it's a nice replica.