@tenmei thank you!

@xin-li Hello! This is a very interesting topic! I very much loved the discussion. I am also constantly thinking about how value and colours play a role in the composition to convey emotions. Do you know the book "The Visual Story" by Bruce Block? Chapter 6 is all about colour. I found it fantastic. He talks about exention and interaction of colour. There are some suggested movies to watch at the end. Also, the whole book is great to revise how the different visual elements help to convey different emotions in sequential art (as you said, for example how we use space: using deep space in tense moments... and keeping flat space for the rest... etc). I also enjoyed a lot "Color" by Betty Edwards. She has exercises on color interactions and emotions. I am still going through them, but so far they are quite interesting!

@chrisaakins I particularly like the one with the bird house! And also the one with the fan. Such drama! Your daily mouse drawings are definitely paying off.

@Ari-Sorokin hi! This is going to sound very snobby but Unless your family are artists, I won’t think much about their opinions. Most of the time non-artist folks just don’t know what makes a great artwork. They can spot if an image is not working but they can’t tell why. As for these 2 pieces, they’re not bad. Their colors are good but they look bland. Currently you’re using an analogous color scheme (colors that are beside each other on the color wheel e.g. blue, green, yellow). It can work but unless you use a standout color like a complimentary one which in this case could be red or orange, your piece can look boring. Try using more fun color palettes. Try complimentary colors, triadic, etc... I also noticed that you tend to use a lot of saturated colors all at once. Instead, try picking 1 saturated color to be your focal point and desaturating the rest so that initial color will pop. I agree with what people here are saying, you need to watch a few color theory videos Here are a few youtube videos that explains color theory (This one is my fave) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qj1FK8n7WgY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2LLXnUdUIc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7CFyVtme9o&t=142s

DAY 21:SLEEP! More like sleep deprivation...

Primal + Inktober Day 18: Loss

@Heather-Boyd I can't wait to see it!!

@Gary-Wilkinson Maybe try the yellow one where the background is just a bit darker to help the character pop. I think the yellow one, at least for me, is more appealing as a color scheme, but the green one has a better contrast between the background and foreground.

Hi @AustinShurtliff, here is my Primal + Inktober piece. Thanks for this opportunity!

Inktober Day 20 .....only 11 pages left to ink!

@Heather-Boyd Thank you so much!!

@Heather-Boyd Thank you so much for the feedback! Those are definitely things that need to be taken care of. Will get that done asap

I was able to make some changes....if anyone is able to,what are your thoughts?

@LauraA hahaha... I can feel the struggles in your end of the screen. My adapter seems work. BTW :-).

day 20-coral

Back with double figures assignment. This time I tried very hard to loosen up! I selected a blottier brush and went to some old family photos to get more small children in the mix. I also went to the last reference resource, a collection of county fair photos with an amazing variety of humanity! The results are mixed. I actually found the county fair photos so fascinating that I didn't want to vary from them. I may have had a bit more story success with the same couple of models that we have been working from all along. But I enjoyed getting some children in too, and since I want to do children's books, felt it was a good opportunity to practice a bit without getting too perfectionistic. On to the last lesson!

@ruth Thanks! I really just want it to look like something that would excite me if I was reading the book as a tween, and I turned to the page to the start of this chapter, and saw the illustration.

The drawings are really great. I can't even believe that people who have not graduated from some special art schools can draw like that. By the way, if you are an artist and at the same time a student and it is difficult for you to combine study with your hobby, then when you have a lot of homework, which is to write research papers, then you can use the site, which helps students in writing papers for which students pay rather big money because the quality of the written papers is really decent.

Day 19 and Day 20!!