A drawing of a girl I like

I've been drawing a bit today, 3 hours or so.. here's the result!

Here's a link to the image

For the love of God, zoom out when viewing this one, to like.. 30 or 40% of the standard size, as it looks awful otherwise!
The colors aren't how they are in real life, I think my 8 year old scanner uses a light that is way too strong, so all colors appear lighter than they actually are.

Your eight-year old scanner and ten-year old comp were not made to handle such romantical, juicy images. I assume you referenced this from a photograph (unless you mentally scanned and memorized her every facial pattern, which is even more romantic ).

Let's see...how to fill out the request of passing "Judge"ment upon photo references? *rubs chin* Not sure, especially since I'm unfamiliar with those materials you used.

It does look good, though.

might be better to see the drawing here by the way

http://tomvanharmelen.deviantart.com/#/d2vhv2g

It's my DA account.

I do remember almost everything about her.. but i wanted this to look as good as I could.. so i used photo reference, yes.

Dude she looks bangin' and so does the drawing. You're pretty good at this imo you're doing really well with this practice.

That looks great. The only problem i have is in her left arm, the shirt over the shoulder is too dark and theres not enough of a gradation from the light to the dark. And having that shoulder so dark would make me think the arm would be a little darker, also it's in a position where it seems like not very much light would hit, but yet it's lighter than the rest of the skin. All together it's an amazing piece of art, nice.

In the picture she's sitting with a window behind her, hence the lighting issue.
Thanks though!
the dark parts on the dress-like thing she's wearing are parts of folds, which i still have a lot of trouble with drawing correctly..

this is pretty damn good im sorry but im a bitch about coloring i used photoshop but other than crayon coloring its ballin'

respect the traditional arts bro. crayon coloring? is it just the fact that i used colored PENCILS instead of photoshop? or do you not like the way i colored it ? be more specific.

lol no i just hate markers/crayons and colored pencils just as a person ive had no luck with them ive destroyed my best drawings with colorin unless i use sakura brand makers :p

Sorry double post Dont take offence i loved the drawing its just im a picky mean person and hate coloring tools like crayons sharpies markers ect

its an artform, which, like animation, takes time to perfect.. skills are fun to develop!

Ill always prefer that comic book type coloring u can only get in photoshop or painting over any colored pencil or crayon i <3 oil pastels sakura brand markers Photoshop and painting Idk why but they are alwqays going to be my favorite

I think de8 is talking about watercolors that masashi kishimoto uses to color his manga.
I'll tell you, shit so messy. I'm amazed he does it so well.
Tom, if you're practicing in traditional coloring, more power to you. I know I gave up on them hehe.

Oh he uses water colors? oh i can get a very similar result with sakura markers but dosnt really mater