this looks really nice, but theres some changes that could be done... ((tries to critique >.<)

1. try to make the stars in the sky less evened out. real night skies have a wide range of patterns and stuff. check out tutorials and resources by *Qzma for some help on that. another way ive done night skies is to make different layers of varying opacities and then using the dissolve option of the paintbrush tool at 1% opacity with the color white. this makes a lot of stars really nice and really fast and of varying brightness.

2. the grass could be done different :/ try to stay away from the grass tool as much as you can since it makes it seem really "evened out" and stuff. also, everyone knows the grass tool D: sometimes its just better to paint in grass yourself, though it can be quite tedious at times. id also suggest the color to be grayer and maybe a tad darker, but not too much.

3. the anatomy on the head isnt great. id probably make the white chin show more (maybe double the amount of white) and then move the eye a bit up and to the right so itd look like Firefly is looking up more and i think thatd make it match a lot better with where the ears are positioned.

as for the stuff i like, excellent job on the tree bark i always find that hard for some reason. also love the way the fur looks

hope ive helped some! im not used to giving critiques XD

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_{First off, this looks great, youre already better with digital paintings than I am I love the way that you rendered the bark and fur, especialy on her tail. Great anatomy too, love how she has something of a spotlight on her because of the fireflies. Crit-wise, I agree with Zelos with all ideas except adding more white to her chin- if anything, Id tone the white down a little.
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Wow, that helped a lot. I had a lot of trouble figuring out how to do the stars, that was the first time I'd ever tried them. I'm going to try what you suggeested and see if I can make it work.

I thought maybe I'd use a grass tool this time because the last time I painted the grass in myself and it took forever, but I agree that it looks too evened out. I thought that as soon as I was done and tried to fix it, but it ended up looking horrible. I'm going to have to repaint it from scratch. The color on the entire picture should be darker, (some of the grass even looks almost black around the edges) and it is when it's in photoshop, but everytime I convert the file to jpeg and upload it, it screws up the coloring. I'll have to find a way to fix that.

And about the head... well, I'm just not very good at doing her head, I really don't have any excuse for that. I'm going to try and fix it though, I'm looking at a lot of refs so that I can make her more cat-like.

Thanks for the advice, I really appreciate it. I'll be sure to check out those tutorials too.

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Thank you so much ... but I think that you're way better at digital than I am. I was going for the kind of spotlight effect, I'm glad it worked. I'm really happy you liked the fur, I worked so hard on that. I think I'll try it both ways with the white on her chin and see which one works out the best.

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heres another idea on the grass... using a wide range of sizes with the grass brush so it doesnt look as evened out.

practice makes perfect youre gettin there ^^ and glad i could help!

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nice coloring and whatnot, and the rendering of the moon is PRICELESS! Great job, yo!

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You're welcome, yo!

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