@Nyrryl-Cadiz Hi everyone! So I’ve finished this piece. I tried using the red dino color comp but I found it too intense and it hurt my eyes when I look at it so The purple one was solidified. Sorry if it took too long to post again. I’m very busy currently. I had to pull an all nighter last night just to finish this one and submit it by morning. I hope you like it. I see a few issues but I’m too tired and too lazy to work on it again. I’m just happy I made it to my deadline.

AD4FBF4C-D06B-4C0C-853E-0F988337AF23.jpeg

This is a really beautiful start. I love the colors and lighting and the overall atmosphere. I want to be there! The thing that probably stands out most to me, is that you could use eye direction to help with the flow of the piece a little more. I'm thinking the two characters on the right could have their eye directions looking slightly more to the left, or perhaps alter the girl on the right's pose a tad more to face the left. It wouldn't take much and I think it would help us move our eye through the piece a little more smoothly. Just a thought.

Congrats! Best wishes for you too.

@burvantill ooo one of my favorite movies too! I remember seeing it in our old small town theatre years ago

@chrisaakins said in Nightfall - WIP - Feedback welcome 🙂:

@jULIANcHARLTON I think you could make it more readable as floating fish if one of them was floating above the horizen maybe in front of the moon.

Cheers. Good suggestion 😊👍

@demotlj I think I will. I'm stalling because I may nitpick it a little more lol. Or not. Will see! I think perhaps I just have trouble entering something way before deadline as I typically enter at the last moment LoL!
Thanks for the kind comment☺️

@evilrobot That is so Awesome!! The coloring looks great William!

@Braden-Hallett Thank you for the feedback! This was just my initial sketch. I was pretty amazed when my value study came out pretty balanced. This was the first time I've actually done this. Someone posted a set of value studies last month, which I thought were a great idea. I see my improvement each month. It helps to see the work posted by others, so I don't just sit in a vaccume wondering how what I'm doing compares.

@Jeremy-Ross I saw that! Yours looks great! I will probably finish mine up and submit it in the next week or so 🙂

I went and changed quite a bit because I felt the light value of the bushes in the background and the lady's dress were competing with the focal point - the glowing heads. I removed the bushes entirely because I felt they were making it hard to focus on the characters.

[Notes to self] Weak points to work on in subsequent pieces:

Drapery - Struggled to draw and paint it Evening light - I don't know what colours to use Rendering style - How much texture do I really want in my work, and what kinds of strokes do I want to see in my work? Revisit dream portfolio.

Final:

Sparkler People_5_small.jpg

Hello Creative people,
I am still working on this. Do you feel like the lines are not bright enough in this piece or does the sleeping girl need to be bigger or the colors that show through the lines brighter? I will be filling the space more on the flying rabbit side. Still working. My lines on the rabbit are not very smooth and I will be fixing that. Please let me know your thoughts. As always, thank you very much.

Nightfall.jpg

@Griff Thanks for the feedback 😃

@LauraA said in Critique/suggestions: too loose? Not loose enough? Just right?:

I like the changes you made to this on your website!

Thanks! I think it turned out pretty well.

Thanks y’all!

Thanks for the feedback everyone! It's helping with motivation. I've always been more of a painter than a draw-er and the drawing part has been difficult!

Right now I'm trying to decide between showing more of the ghostly atmosphere with just a tad bit of decay (tree and floorboards around it). Or pushing more of the ghostly element by making things feel more transparent and show even more decay. Not sure which to choose. These are kinda rough and not completely worked out, but hopefully you can sort of see what I'm going for. Thoughts?

Library Color Sketch.png

Library Color Sketch 2.png

@chrisaakins 😂😂😂

I did a lot of thumbnails last month and started early which was good. I also found I went through that stage of feeling that it was very ugly. I get that feeling a lot and I wonder how much other people do? Something gets a bit lost between thumbnail and larger sketch, particularly with the characters. They're really ugly for a while but I keep working and ignore the uncertain voice in my head and eventually I can improve it.
Once I had my larger sketch I didn't really do a value study though. I need to do that. I think it was in this thread I read about having a layer, filled with white and turned to saturation mode? I tried that yesterday with my little mouse and that's helpful for sure! Tho I suppose that's an along the way value check and not a value study beforehand. Also. No color studies. So I have to get better at those and maybe even",steal" a color scheme from another illustration.
I also have trouble with too many layers. I get confused and maybe the color value studies will help!
I also think I threw in a bunch of falling snow at the last minute and blurred it too much. I think I overdid that but maybe some things come down to experience. And maybe some last minute decisions are good and some aren't 😜
Great thread 🙂

It's looking really good to me. Excited to see it get the full printmaking treatment. 😊

@xin-li Yes, I think it will work well. Great idea!

@animatosoor thanks. It has been really fun AND I am learning a lot.

It has has been very informative to learn how each illustrator handles differences in sex, age, situation, species, etc. And it some of that has gone into how I have been approaching characters in my world-building as well.

For example, most of the illustrators have much larger heads on their children than their adults. The adults tend to be proportioned 'closer' to reality (usually still very exaggerated but closer.) I have decided to do the same thing in my style. Children's heads are wider and their bodies are 1:1 with the head. For adults, I am using round heads and their bodies are usually 1.5x-2x the head height.

For another project, I am building out fantasy races and this comes even more into play as I am using proportions to help define the races. It is nice when one project informs and reinforces another project... got to love synergy.

@Jeremy-Ross Thank you Jeremy! I am so glad to hear that you like the OZ stuff 🙂

Thought i should post the "final"on to this thread - so much detail is lost from the original...not sure what lesson there is for me in that...

Final_SVS_Small 2.png