As I had mentioned to Lenore (=rabid-cabbit), I'm surprised that I could even inspire anyone to draw something, especially someone better than I am at drawing (yes, I still believe you to be far better than I).
I honestly couldn't complain about anything small on it because overall it is very well done. You had done a very good job on the line work and even the coloring and the bits of shadowing ^^

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TOBY!!! I haven't seen him with someone in a long time...
I gotta visit his site more...

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Te-heh, this looks funny I like the expressions of the characters and the dynamics of the picture, with your necklace (and of course Tobias ) flying in the wind - you'd probably have a slightly hard time holding your tail that way (since it'd probably fly in the wind just like your necklace (with what seems to be a shark-tooth or something) does), and maybe it'd even add to the movement of the picture if you draw it that way, but it's nothing serious, really Your outfiut looks good too (it being all smooth and slightly more shiney than your fur is realistic too, since they'd be having different textures "in real life" ), and I can't complain about the pose or the anatomy either - very well done One thing you could try is working on different layers, this makes it easier to colour drawings and would eliminate the white spots, like seen on your surfboard, on the junction between the red lines and the purplish-blue background, or where the tail overlaps the board. Tobias looks fine the way you drew him (hehe, he has fingers in your picture - and sunglasses ) - and you went crazy with the hair too, as I can see X3 Very stylish, really
The water and the waves look good - looks like they're having the perfect weather to go surfing, no? It looks a tad sketchy since it's not coloured, but the lineart is well done, with overwheling masses of water filling up a good portion of the picture (at least far enough that only the sky is visible in the background, so it does a good job in making it look like there's really a lot of water to surf on - I mean, just look, even that wave they're on is larger than us combined *-* ). Another suggestion I'd have is to try using slight shading - too much would probably look strange on your style, but if you play and try around with different widths and intensities of shading, I think that might add to the quality and make your pictures look even better. Oh, and one more rather technical suggestion - be careful with JPEGs and JPEG compression, if it's too high, JPEG pictures get little artefacts like in this drawing (look at [link] for a zoomed in version) - if you look closely you'll see that the purple of your board has small blocks of red and even slightly greenish ones in it - those are caused by the JPEG format when the compression is too high. JPEG is perfect for photos, because these blocks don't really get noticed there, but on pictures with crisp and sharp lines as yours are, PNG is often the better format (or one can also use JPEG with very little compression, should your program allow you to change that).
In any case, this is an adorable drawing, both of the characters look really cute the way you drew them, and you did a grand job with the poses too. The picture looks smooth and happy too, and your style on both character is fitting and fun to look at
Keep up the good work, and thank you heaps for your drawing, it's very much appreciated (and something I hadn't expected at all ^-^)



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Tobias Fischer (tobyf)
Drawings, Friends ^-^

Isn't Rico cold surfing like that in the winter time?