Hi SVS :)
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Hi and welcome! I hope to stay awake for 3rd Thursday tomorrow night -there have been so many creative submissions being posted that it would be wonderful to hear the critiques live.
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Very nice style, love your piece!
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Welcome to the forums.
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Welcome to SVS @Katie-W! It is a great place to be, hope you like it here
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Welcome @Katie-W!
OMG your characters are adorbs! I love the monkey in particular, I just want to give him a hug. And never let go.
One critique I'd say is that the lion looks more bored/skeptical than he does scared. I would work on his expression a bit more. He also doesn't look quite grounded on that base - more like he was cut out and pasted on it. Same with the shadows - they look more like they're floating above rather than being grounded.
I LOVE Dorothy's little jacket with the back flap bits (totally mental blanking at the moment what those are called) curling up.
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@DanetteDraws said in Hi SVS
:One critique I'd say is that the lion looks more bored/skeptical than he does scared.
I figured that was the look she was going for. Like: "jump through that? Pu-leeze."
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Welcome Katie! And your art is great, I really like the concept here and I think it works really well for the characters!
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@Kekkerz86 Welcome to the forums! You have a lovely style, very appealing, good color choices with a nice level of polish to it!
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Thanks for the warm welcome everyone!
@DanetteDraws Thanks for the critiques, I agree with you about the shadows and lion needing more weight on his platform. I seem to have a hard time placing characters concretely in space. Something to work on I guess! As for his expression, since it was a redesign I intentionally tried to make him look more unwilling rather than scared to create a moment between him and Dorothy (I didn't think he would be afraid of her since they're friends!). I can see how making him look scared would make him more recognizable though, thanks again for your comments.
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@Katie-W you're welcome! I like that you've changed up his expression to be more unwilling and you've definitely nailed it - the one thing then I'd say would be a small easy fix is just move his eyes to be looking downwards at Dorothy/the hoop. Right now he's looking across at Glenda. Then the apprehension about "doing tricks" would really be apparent.
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@DanetteDraws Thanks again for the great suggestion. I changed up his eyes to make his gaze more obviously directed at Dorothy and I think it looks way better... I also removed the shadows completely as I was told in the critique
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Looks great!
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Really charming characters. The little monkey is adorable, and the coat tails on Dorothy are an awesome way to create some depth. Great work!
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@Katie-W love love love! It's looking so great now
