Kids...
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@smceccarelli This is such a great project and your characters are so wonderful! For Billy tho, I feel like you might not see that much of his ear on his right side(our left if looking at the screen)…I know his ears stick out a bit but it seems more like it’s leaning/bending towards the floor instead of sticking out like the other ear. I did a little Photoshop placement mock. I don’t know if this is really correct but it just feels a little better to me…also try doing the pose and then take a picture of yourself doing it, you’ll have instant reference and get a better idea of what it should look like!
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@smceccarelli Hey love the picture, I wonder if the silhouette of the character would be stronger if one of her legs was up. Just a thought.
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@Jason-Bowen Hey that is really interesting! Yes, it does look more dynamic, though I am wondering if it is disturbing the balance of the pose?
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Adorable, so well done, love the motion in this piece!
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This painting style felt completely unnatural and odd - not sure if it works: I feel bad when I am not rendering...So input welcome. Also wonder if I should keep posting the kids here? I am officially announcing the 100Kids projects at my next post (number 4), but if I really pull it through and keep posting here, it is going to get a very loooong post!
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@smceccarelli You could do 25 groups of 4 and post when you have each group finished.... each character within the group could relate to one another in some way - or you could increase the character count per group and reduce the posts - but i think doing it this way you could add a story telling element to the characters just by the implied association of the grouping.....could generate some nice portfolio pieces and/or story ideas... this sounded like a good idea when it was in my head... anyways thought i would share the thought
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You could always create a page on your website and when you update it let people know to check them out.
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Just seeing these! Such wonderful detail and rendering style in your paintings, the girl with the plane and the dancing boy have such a classic look to them, very appealing in sketch and painting. What a fun idea, can't wait to seem more!
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Nice updates. The newest one still looks great even with the reduced rendering.
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@smceccarelli Post whatever you like, it's such fun to look at. And I'd much rather hang out here in the forum in my brief spare time then get lost in Youtubeland, so post away!
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love how you handle these, great detail and style!
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What's your social media? I'd love to follow you on this challenge.
Let's connect!
www.amandawall.ca
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@AWall I am posting on Instagram, FB and Twitter. My handles are smceccarelli (Twitter) simona.ceccarelli (Instagram) and the hashtag is #100Kids. I am not posting daily - my life is too complicated for that!
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I am following @Kevin-Longueil advice and will do a couple of "series" within the set of 100, probably each crowned by a full illustration at the end - the best may make good portfolio pieces as a set, or at least that is my reasoning.
So, I am making a series of kids at the waterside right now. I will post them all at the end, meanwhile I am bouncing these two sketches in the forum: does the anatomy and proportions look correct? As you can see, I am also following the forum's advice to feature some different ethnicities
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very nice, I like what you are doing...
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@smceccarelli These look awesome! - i love them both especially the girl with the clown fish in her hair! - the boy maybe needs some super minor tweaks i think - to his head, ear and right arm - i think the back of his head needs a tiny bit more mass - not much - the ear is a tiny bit too low and because the thickness of the top ridge of the ear is equal to the bottom it looks like it is tilting forward instead of laying back and tilting away - the right arm i know is foreshortened but i feel it needs to be a tiny bit longer in the wrist area - possibly separate the two fingers that are touching so that the hands are not mirroring each other - super minor stuff - and possibly incorrect but it's all i could come up with
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Aw...These are adorable!
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Well, I am at number 9 right now and I have already an identity crisis. I really love rendering - light and surface texture and all strings attached. But, I want to experiment with simpler, more straightforward forms of rendering, which I think are sometimes more appealing (like Szymon Biernacki does). The problem is, whenever I do not go into full rendering it looks unfinished to me.
Here is what I am working on right now. To me this would be stage 2 - still far from finished. And yet I look at it and I wonder if it could be considered finished at this stage - wether it has any kind of "finished" sense to it. What do you think?
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It looks unfinished to me, especially compared to your previous characters. The left hand looks weird and is much larger than the right. The face in particular looks unfinished. I think in your style if you want to make it simpler try omitting the texture and just render it smooth with lights and shadows. Let the brushstrokes give an illusion of texture.
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@smceccarelli All wonderful drawings and gestures as usual. With this latest one I would say yes it does look unfinished...like it is following your usual method and it's in an earlier stage of development. I've just been on Szymon Biernacki's website (http://biernac.com/) to work out what style you were aiming for....that wonderful piece with the whale has a simpler method of rendering, but other pieces still look very detailed to me in terms of rendering (and closer to achieve with your usual method).
Thinking about the whale piece, to get the same style I would have thought you'd have to use the lasso tool to create flat colour areas, then lock it and use a grainy texture brush on top to add the detail. ...like those hills look like a lasso brush creation....then the trees look like they've been done with a triangular brush....the spray with another brush...lots of interesting things in there. There's another piece in his personal section featuring kids that looks like it's been done in the same way...If I were trying to match that look I'd try to get sharper edges, more flatness and greater use of texture brushes.
But there's definitely no need for you to have an identity crisis, your recent work is so very very good anyway
