What does the moon do

Jana

What a great concept! I agree with the idea of Saturn being more tilted towards little moon. I love the expressions on both faces. I also like the idea of showing both arms of Saturn.
I guess you could make moons face a bit more cute by shifting his eyes closer together.
Good luck with the e-book. Please keep us updated.

Lydia M

I think with this one I got really excited and jumped into painting too soon. Does anyone else do that? I did a sketch with Saturn turned around and farther in the distance. An issue I'm having is that in reality Saturn is HUGE (and I'm also locked into a 3840 x 2400 format). The moon doesn't visit Saturn in reality either but I don't want them to be so close in size. I also flattened my original and hacked it up to get an idea of where I should go.

Thank you so much for your input everyone!

joanie stone

I think the composition of your new sketch is working nicely. I think Saturn could be a tad bigger so there is more size variety. I like the sketch where they are more side to side rather than overlapping. Really great work and so cute.

Joy Heyer

I like the idea of the moon being smaller than Saturn--like a little kid wanting to be like the "cool" older kid. The motion and emotion is so wonderful!

Lydia M

So I started over because overall it was looking too bizarrely realistic. The moon was too close to real and that's why he was creeping me out. I think the new version has more movement. I'm still struggling with pushing Saturn into the background without losing her. I put a cool-tone overlay on her because she was bright yellow. I'm going to keep working on it. I definitely had more fun and felt less frustrated with this one.

Lydia M

Starting another one!

Leontine

@gimmehummus already love the sart of this, and its very good to make a series out of this! Its helps youu to find a stable style of art! The sun is beautiful!

Lydia M

Any suggested changes? I had a hard time with the moon because it needed reflected light but still had to look moon-like. And its farther away.

MOO

This is quite different from the first one. It has a whole different feel to it. I like them both.

Lydia M

I agree about the different feel. The hula one has a sweeter feel I think. I guess because of their expressions? I went over the hula one real quick and made some changes, trying to unify them because they'll all be part of the same book. Does anyone have any thoughts?

Does anyone ever feel overloaded with style ideas? I feel like a total commitment-phobe when it comes to art. Like I'm going to settle for the wrong one.

Dulcie

I like the new hula-hooping one best, and the new Mercury one too! You should give yourself a break - it's really difficult to show gesture well when you only have a sphere and arms to work with! This is a difficult task IMO And you're doing a great job.

Yes yes I totally feel like a style commitment-phobe! Every time I watch a new class I see a new way of working and think I must try this! And it's great and you learn stuff...but then I wonder well do I have to choose? If so, will it come naturally? I hope so. There's just so much fun stuff to choose from.