Alice in Wonderland - illustration series
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@smceccarelli These floor me. Especially the Down the Rabbit Hole. WOW.
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I'm so glad you have a deadline because I want to see MORE!!!!
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Second one down - missing final adjustments and of course hungry for feedback on anything that could be improved..
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This is extraordinary @smceccarelli! I think this is perhaps my favourite of anything I've seen of yours. Well done! I could seriously look at that last one for days.
The only thing I'd say for a critique is that Alice is dressed pretty plain in my opinion. I'm wondering though if you did that on purpose - so that her surroundings really stand out and so then she looks even more out of place in this world? If that's the case, even just adding a simple ribbon around her waist would help I think. The middle one in particular looks a bit hospital gown-ish at the moment with how it's billowing.
I seriously think a publisher should hire you to illustrate a new take on Alice
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Absolutely love the color choices and Chesire Cat!
My only comment is that the facial expressions of the characters in the Mad Hatter scene seem very similar to one another. Alice's expressions, in particular, appears to be the same as the illustration with the Chesire Cat.
Beautiful work!
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@smceccarelli Wonderful work!
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@smceccarelli Beautiful!!!
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@smceccarelli I am in love with this. I really like how the ginko leaves, and blue green color tie everything together.
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Its really beautiful work
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Well thank you all @Tom-Shannon @Kevin-Longueil @DanetteDraws @Guest @HilariousBosch @Christine-Garner for the great feedback! I keep seeing things that bug me, but that is my curse....I am overall really happy with this new direction and I hope I can keep pushing the graphic approach - it just feels right at this stage. Danette, you have a good point . Alice´s plainness is intentional, as you have guessed, but I will try to see how a ribbon plays out.
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Amazing work! I love the colors on the down the rabbit hole one! And seeing the progress from sketch to color is simply a treat! Love it
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Again, great colour palette!
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You are doing some next level stuff here. I can really tell how much hard work you put in. The illustrations are beautiful.
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Next one down. What do you think of the green fog between the chairs? Too much?
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Beautiful! I personally think the green fog works well.
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@smceccarelli Love it! its so illustrative! chapeau!
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I am not sure about this one...what do you think?
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@smceccarelli I think the queen's dress needs more dimension to round it out (the way you did with the cheshire cat), but I do love how the points of the hearts are coming at Alice. And...psst...you should have won the SCBWI narrative art award. Totally solid work.
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@smceccarelli This looks great - i love the texture of the background! for feedback i would agree with Laurel - i think in the drawing that the density of hearts around the waist of the Queen seemed to imply her form more strongly than in the painted version - for the background it is possible that the color, saturation, and texture of the background are pulling my attention from Alice - even when i look directly at Alice she seems to fade from view as the background comes into focus - i messed with levels a bit hoping to find something that might get Alice to pop - did not really get great results but i felt that the green really works to bring Alice forward but maybe not as well with the queen - anyways - feel free to ignore
this series is really very impressive!!
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Thank you @Kevin-Longueil @Laurel-Aylesworth! I think you are definitely right, I need to mess a little with the queen's dress. I do not want to put something "inside" the dress, but it needs to get more volume. I also agree that I probably need to push back the background more. My major source of in-person feedback (a great designer colleague) suggested darkening it more. Or maybe it is the saturation. I'll play around. Green looks good - unfortunately the whole series only uses a five-color palette and it does not include green. Maybe I could try with teal and purple instead of yellow and purple...
Ok, more playing in any case.
Here is a little fun "extra" I did today for color collective. Not as polished, but I only had two hours...
