"Flight" WIP (Nov HTFYA) - Alex Wilkins

[Tom Harshberger]

@alexw love the concept, the angle, the characters and the whole composition! Really cool. Only thing I notice is that you could definitely push the gesture of the character throwing a lot more. Could get a lot more dynamic than it currently is.

[alexw]

@Tom-Harshberger I agree with you. I believe I've drawn and re-drawn her pose 6 times. I've already entered into the coloring phase however, any recommendations on how I could still fix it? I might liquify that area of the piece to push that gesture more.

[Robyn Hepburn]

I love that you're taking note of what you've learned through the process. I keep telling myself to do that, but instead I end up having to learn from the same mistakes over and over...
I'm really looking forward to seeing this in colour!

[alexw]

@Robyn-Hepburn Well. Here you go!

All finished

I could say a lot of stuff about this piece, but I will say, if it wasn't for your guy's feedback, I wouldn't have been able to arrive at this point!

[Larue]

@alexw Came out great!

[Robyn Hepburn]

@alexw Hooray! 🥳 Everything about it makes me happy.

[Fey Realme]

@Robyn-Hepburn it is nice! I like the pencil version best though. I saw it and imagined it was a b&w interior illustration for a chapter book. Im a sucker for pencil marks.

[alexw]

@R-Fey-Realme I agree with you. I'm not super experienced with color, and I see more black and white in my mind's eye, so I felt like the BW version was more successful. And I'm drawn to that style too.

[Fey Realme]

@alexw you should put the black & white version in the submission post. Something Lee said at the end of the last HTFYA video makes me think they are going to talk about rendering in November. No matter if you want pointers on your color rendering or on your black and white rendering style i think it would benefit the lesson they put together to see your piece in both color and black and white. And include your prompt sentence in the sub! I loved that context.

Overall im a huge fan—great story, dynamic composition, interesting and expressive readable characters. I think if they got to see both render trys they could have a really insightful conversation about rendering (which I really hope they do, because they have already hit story and composition like 5 times)
cheers

[Jason Crowley]

@alexw Really solid piece, well done! Good to see the critiquing process result in a better outcome for you, I need to take a leaf out of your book.

[alexw]

@R-Fey-Realme I'll take your advice and do that right now!

@Jason-Crowley thank you! I hope that my application of your guy's help inspires you!