Ooohhhh the hair color, the eyes, cheeks, nose, lips and the background is just so pretty!

So very perdy....bwa. Eyes so glowy...hair so shiny...*die*

Her face is sexy, very lovely! >:D
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AHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, i think im about to be hugged by a physic little girl

I love it! It's very expressive!

you draw SEXY! >:P~
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Pretty anime boy. Bwaaaaha. *glomp*

HA HA HA Current! Ok ok ::calms self down and runs away::

Heh, at first I thought it was a sleeping dragon...

Well, Mini sort of has the right idea of looking at real ocean, but honestly I don't see a point in going out to an ocean and taking lots of pictures just to come back and do some oekaki. If you go out of your way to do that, enjoy it, maybe do a painting while you're there.
Anime is stylized, so I only recommend looking at that if you really want to have an anime style in your piece. (And if that's the case I highly suggest looking at 5+ anime by different artists to get a more general idea.)

So, what would I do? First off, google image search is your friend. A quick search for 'ocean' or 'ocean waves' will bring up many cool photos and paintings, and probably everything you'd need.

XD when i started sketching the land i was actually trying to draw a crab, so it looks an awful lot like a claw... i couldn't find a decent photo of a crab to base it off of so i changed direction. the problem with me using photos of waves and such is that there is a lot of action going on in a single section of water, even it is relatively calm. i think water is more difficult to create than anything else.
thx for the tips

Great, just ruin the ending why don't you.

^_^ Weeeee, yay. I agree leather suits him :D *beams*

*sobs along with forgotten-memory and pyrobarbie* ....yes.. so sad.. but cool picture. *continues to sob* ..

scary-cool dude, I love how you colored the hair. :-)

Creepy, but nifty. Like the eye.

Yea I like it a lot. I like the hair and the eyes.

Whooo. So nifty. Baldness.

Very good picture...*sniffles* They killed him!! Nooooo!! *sobs* Harrys only family and she killed him!! *hides in corner cluching book* *sniff*

My friend told me who died and now I can't be arsed to read the book.

*Goes and reads a comic*

does harry die in the end?

it's a victim of embossed shading. Perhaps if you made your hilights/shadows less uniform/flat, it'd help give the effect you want.
For example, rather than putting dark on one side, and light on the other side, mix and match (which you sort of begam to do in some places, like the neck, but not enough).

Whoa.... The picture looks as if you already knew the outcome.....looking at a downward angle .... with a look of dissapointment.....as if the picrure itelf is saying "It feels like this took forever...all that meticulous shading and lineart editing....and still...it looks...like crap."
Creeepy