Critique Arena Journal
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@JQ Wow! Your artwork is spectacular!
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@Maureen-Henry-Artist Thanks very much!
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It would probably have been better if I had another day to look at this with fresh/non-tired eyes and do more touch-ups/value-tweaking, but I'm out of time and will have to call this done.
Overall I am a weird mixed of satisfied yet unsatisfied with this piece. I jumped into it not really thinking too much about the complexity, and was just happy to be able to paint in a different style after doing so much children's book-ish work recently. After that it proved to be a trial of patience rendering the details (though always satisfying when done!), and then not being quite happy with the fact that it did not turn out as "painterly" as I would have liked, and that I didn't manage to nail the right values and right amount of contrast at the start - kind of feel like I've abused overlay/dodge layers, and spent more time layering and tweaking values then I should have needed to working digitally. I did decide to challenge myself lighting-wise though (dawn-ish, dusk-ish, moonlight) and think it turned out decently.
I've practised starting photo study pieces with 3-value paintings first to think more in a painterly/sculpting way vs flatting a line drawing (eg. https://tanjunqi.art/portfolio/studies), but it's clearly going to take more study and practice before I figure out how to smoothly incorporate that into my process, especially for more complex pieces and when drawing from imagination.
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Fresh eyes now make me really dislike the piece for being too flat and "digital", so I had to play around with Krita 5's wet impasto brush bundle. Should have tried it out sooner...
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@JQ even more stunning after the update!
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@ArtMelC Thank you! ^^
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A last-minute submission since I wasn't actually planning to participate this month. But a relatively simple scene struck me as I was working on my book project, so I decided to just do a quick one, and try messing around with Krita's watercolor brushes again.
The workflow is still not as intuitive (certainly not like traditional watercolors) but I guess the end result is reasonable.
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@JQ I love it sometimes those last minute ideas are the best!
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@Asyas_illos thank you! Glad you like it
