Wizard of Oz
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this put a smile on my face
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Reading about this and seeing you artwork has made my day! It must be an amazing feeling for you knowing that your artwork can bring so much joy! I struggle with all of the same things you mentioned. I worry that I am so dependent on reference that I have dulled the part of my brain that creates.
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@Rich-Green Seriously awesome.
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What an awesome project. As far as background environment items, it is something I am working on as well. I don't have enough reference in my mental filing cabinet, so one of the things I am doing is Googling landscape photos, copying them into Photoshop, lowering the opacity and tracing over them, then playing with the value. It helps me deconstruct the environment. Hope that helps.
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@Carrie - thank you so much for picking up on the expressions and the movement in the characters, I really appreciate you noticing them!
@Naroth-Kean - and your comment put a smile on my face. Thank you my friend!
@stacilyn - comments like the one you left have made my day, so thank you for that! And yes I feel like if I can look at something in person or via photo I can usually draw its likeness fairly well. But when it is from my pure imagination I freeze up for some reason. So in projects outside of this one where I have to create recognizable references to pop culture characters, I am really trying to push myself to be influences by references without taking them literally. I am definitely a work in progress on that one!
@shinjifujioka - that is very high praise coming from someone whose work I admire so much - thank you!
@Rebecca-Hirsch Thank you! And yes I go between real photo references and then other illustrators/digital painters work to see how they intemperate similar landscapes and what it is about their variations that appeal to me. Then I try and figure out how to recreate that but it has been slow going in some areas that's for sure!
Seriously everyone, thank you all so much for all the kind words/comments/upvotes on this one - really feels good!
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Great work and a great cause!
Hey guys, just a fyi on resolution. There is no benefit to going any higher than 300 ppi, even when working at large scale (provided your file is built at 100% of the printed size). The reason for this is that all images print through a line screen when printing on paper. That line screen will limit resolution on the printing end of things. The line screen is typically 300 dots per inch. Anything over 300 pixels per inch in your file will not show up once it goes through the line screen. Occasionally a coffee table photo book might go up to 450 lines per inch where you would need the higher resolution file, but it's not common. So don't make your files bigger than necessary by going with big resolution sizes.
Hope that makes sense. : )
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Wow Rich, these just keep getting better and better!! The characters have so much life, but none take away from Dorothy! she has such a beautiful smile! I like how you added all of their awards hehe. The only things i noticed is the wizard gets a bit lost. his suit is clost to the same color as the grass, and Toto needs a bit of shadow under him. Oddly he looks like he was "photoshopped" into the picture.
Keep up the amazing work, and all of the good you do!! You rock!!
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@Lee-White Thank you Lee, for the kind words. Also thanks for the recommendations on resolution as well.
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@Lynn-Larson - You know it was tricky because the wizard is green, the field is green, the emerald city is green - not ideal. I had him a bit bolder but then he jumped to far forward in the scene. So I put some of the hazy blue from the sky in him to tone him down a bit and pull your focus back to the foreground. Its one of those things where I should have designed something behind him to contrast him I suppose. Hmmm
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@Rich-Green I know you don't want him to stand out, he's not the main focus. It is just my opinion
