cute! :3

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T3T aaaaw i love it! amazingly adorable and i love the coloring. great job on it! thank you thank you thank you! <3333

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I think it would help you if you chose one light source and shaded with just that in mind. Your shading is all over the place and that might explain some of your frustrations with shading whether cell shading or not. You seem to have the basic idea of cell shading down with the solid blocks of colour, but I think you are having trouble visualizing what needs to be in shadow, what casts a shadow and what doesn't cast a shadow at all. For example, the wings would be one, thin object, but you've shaded every purple piece so it gives this odd shingling effect.

I suggest some basic observational studies with a single light source. Just get a cylinder of some sort and wrap some fabric around it so there are folds and wrinkles then draw it and shade it while looking at it.

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Thank you <3

Yay! Thanks! I am glad you like it >W<

I don't really know what butterfly wings look like D:

Do you think I should use darker shading? Because I usually zoom in like 300% and I realized that the skin barely looks like it is shaded at all D:

Yeah but that is fabric folds, that is nice but what about everything else that needs to be shaded D:
Shading fail XD

Hmmm, you could use darker shading if you want.

Well, using a cylinder was just an example. Anything you practise lighting with will add to your knowledge so when you shade an image you make up, you will remember what certain lighting does to shapes. The point I was trying to make, is you need to learn more about how objects look when lit from one source.

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>3< aye i love it! hehe you guys spoil me. <3

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_{Cuuute. I like the fuzzy effect on his antennas. -Pets them-}

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