Music WIP - Pied Piper

rachy

@tessaw
Thank you so much for the paint over! Aah I really like that perspective of the road and some countryside at the end of it is such a good idea too! Somehow it's given me an idea of how to polish up the piper a bit too! Guess what I'm gonna be working on this evening!
Thanks again!
Xx

rachy

Thanks so much for the help & feedback all! Here's how its looking after this evenings drawing time...

Simon Prime

@rachy I like the feeling of the rats concentrating on the piper. You're successfully communicating the mesmeric quality of the piper's music.

I'm not really getting consistent size cues from the rats. For example, the rat on the right sticking its head out of a window is behind the piper yet seems to be the size of a dog. The rat across the road seems as big as a person. The background rats make the foreground rats look like huge rats close to the piper rather than regular size rats close to the camera.

As the rats are such an important part of the image, I'd suggest some more character development sketches of the rats starting with some studies of reference photos. This would help to flesh them out a bit, make them pop.

Nice job!

rachy

Thank you @Simon-Prime ! I'll do some rat studies this evening and see what I can do. I do want the rats to look larger than life, as i thought it would be fun if the town was over-run with giant rats. I did mean to do dog size rather than human tho!

rachy

Wow this is so good getting feedback! Bit worried I'm not going to get this painted in time for the contest tho!

Naters.Art

@rachy "perfection is the enemy of progress"

braden H

Very nice! This has improved so much since the last time I saw it

As for finishing on time, do what you can. Finished, not perfect, right?

rachy

@naters-calderone Perfectly imperfect

rachy

@art-of-b

Thank you it's coming along. Yes yes yes finished not perfect!

rachy

Nearly there! Xx

TessaW

Sweeeet.