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    Glacier WIP - Please Critique!

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    • Pamela Fraley
      Pamela Fraley SVS OG @Guest last edited by

      @ben-migliore Love this! The only critique I have is to add a chimney and maybe some logs piled on the side of the house. There’s no visible power going to the house, but it needs some heat if there’s people living there. I live where there’s glaciers and snow and our power is a bit unreliable in the winter. There are many days when I’ve heated the house and made dinner on our wood stove. Old school, but cozy. ☺️

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        A Former User @Pamela Fraley last edited by

        @pamela-fraley HaHa! I love that you mentioned elements that would matter to the characters and not just the illustration. I'll be sure to do something about that. We have to make sure our explorers survive the cold! Thank you very much!

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        • Kevin Longueil
          Kevin Longueil SVS OG last edited by

          @ben-migliore Hey Ben - this looks great - for feedback i'm thinking the red on the light source side of the cabins may be too saturated for the atmospheric conditions in your piece - other thing would be that there are strong shadows in the background environment and on the shadow sides of objects in the foreground but no cast shadows. The feeling i get is that this is a low light source (winter evening sun?) with a very dark winter sky above - it looks like the stormy sky is darkening the right foreground tree but not the snow and dock area - i'm probably overthinking this - really it looks great - i enjoy this type of abstraction

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          • MOO
            MOO SVS OG last edited by MOO

            Looks great! The only thing I wonder about is the dock being just a bit out of perspective (one of my weaknesses though so I might be wrong). It seems like it should be just a bit narrower on the far end of the viewer. No big deal though.

            Marsha Ottum Owen

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              A Former User @MOO last edited by

              @marsha-kay-ottum-owen Thanks. You're perfectly right about the dock. I was trying to abstract many of the elements so I scrapped scientific perspective for the style

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              • MOO
                MOO SVS OG @Guest last edited by

                @ben-migliore Sounds good to me! It looks great and I'm all for scrapping perspective at times 🙂

                Marsha Ottum Owen

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                  bennyschmidt12 last edited by

                  this look great, if i would ad anything, i would put some of that texture you have in the back ground hills and stuff into the snow that cabins are on, and by the docks....just at thought, really cool piece!

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                    A Former User last edited by A Former User

                    @Pamela-Fraley @Kevin-Longueil @Marsha-Kay-Ottum-Owen @bennyschmidt12
                    Thank you for your feedback!! I made a lot of changes since your critiques. Here's what it looks like...

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                    • Kevin Longueil
                      Kevin Longueil SVS OG @Guest last edited by

                      @ben-migliore Very Nice!

                      Portfolio: kevinlongueil.com
                      https://www.instagram.com/kevinlongueil/

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                      • Pamela Fraley
                        Pamela Fraley SVS OG @Guest last edited by

                        @ben-migliore Love it!! And that smoke is sweet too. 👌🏼👌🏼

                        instagram.com/fraleycreates

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                          bennyschmidt12 last edited by

                          oh yeah!, love it!

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                          • evilrobot
                            evilrobot SVS OG last edited by

                            This is looking fantastic. Nice work.

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                            • Christine Garner
                              Christine Garner last edited by

                              Very nice work!

                              website: https://thimblefolio.com

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                              • MOO
                                MOO SVS OG last edited by

                                @ben-migliore Looks great!

                                Marsha Ottum Owen

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