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    • mcucchi
      mcucchi last edited by

      Gotcha! Yeah! The crouch has a lot of energy in it, like she's ready to pounce. I think I read more action than was intended.

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      • audrey dowling
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        • audrey dowling
          audrey dowling last edited by

          something like this? the silhouette kind of loses energy and readability though, doesn't it?
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          • chrishalldraws
            chrishalldraws last edited by

            Hi, I love the composition its really engaging and draws you into the sence. The Stephanie character has a fantastic flow to her the only thing I would say is that in my opinion she is looking in the wrong direction. Am not even sure you have to see her face maybe just a back view with the head pointing to the vampire. But this only my opinion. Great work! 🙂

            But I love the whole feel of the piece 🙂

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            • mcucchi
              mcucchi @audrey dowling last edited by mcucchi

              @audrey-dowling I think this is much clearer! I don't feel like you've lost much energy and I can still tell what is going on. Just my opinion, of course!

              portfolio: moniquecucchi.com
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              • Sarah LuAnn
                Sarah LuAnn SVS OG last edited by

                I remember reading the first Skulduggery Pleasant book back when it came out... I haven't picked up any of the others in the series. I remember that it was a really fun one though, so I may have to.

                I think the second pose you have looks a bit more natural, I would just make sure where the feet are is clear--It look like they're right on top of each other right now. I'm excited to see where this goes!

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                • audrey dowling
                  audrey dowling @Sarah LuAnn last edited by

                  better now isn't it?
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                  @Sarah-LuAnn I'm on the 6th one right now, I love that series. they're great books 🙂

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                  • audrey dowling
                    audrey dowling last edited by audrey dowling

                    I haven't had much time to work on it lately so here I am now
                    I will have to work on the perspective but the overall composition is ok I think. what do you think?
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                    I'm going to refine my sketch now
                    (why oh why do I always make complicated illustrations??? )

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                    • audrey dowling
                      audrey dowling last edited by audrey dowling

                      and now
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                      a far cry from the first sketch already 😃
                      do you see any mistake in the perspective and values?
                      because of the value structure, I'm tempted to make the final version black and white. what do you think?

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                      • Tyson Ranes
                        Tyson Ranes @audrey dowling last edited by

                        @audrey-dowling this has really great depth with your tone and lighting. Cool!

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                        • audrey dowling
                          audrey dowling @Tyson Ranes last edited by

                          thanks @Tyson-Ranes 🙂

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                          • Rapteev
                            Rapteev last edited by

                            I love the strong values you've got going on here. Really sets the mood well. My only criticism would be that I think Skelly's intent would be more readable if he was looking at her, and not in the direction of the viewer/bust. Imagine if you were pulling a child away from a hot stove- you'd be looking at the kid as you did it.

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                            • audrey dowling
                              audrey dowling @Rapteev last edited by

                              that's a good point @Rapteev , thanks
                              now I have to learn how to draw a skeleton's profile 😃

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                              • Bob Crum
                                Bob Crum last edited by

                                This is shaping up to be a nice story! Well thought out for sure.
                                You asked, in a thread above, if there were any issues with perspective so I thought I would throw something together (I don't have my Cintiq in the office today so the pen tool will have to do).
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                                I increased my canvas size to WAAAYY out there - so i could find your vanishing points. I'd say that, for the most part, you have a pretty consistent piece here! BUT I had to take issue with the furniture in the foreground and the wall behind the skelly and girl. Using the points that I extrapolated from your exiting lines, I fixed the pieces. I think it is much more believable now.
                                Also, you mentioned that you might leave it black and white... while I LOVE the idea of starting all my paintings with tones of black and white, I feel that adding color typically deepens the perception of quality (and perception is reality to clients). To that end, I put together a triptych of the composition - left (before) - middle (after) - right (two colors).
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                                You can see that just adding two colors to the composition makes it more dramatic. I can feel the moonlit interior of the room because it is contrasted with a warm foreground. This even gives you a neat opportunity to make a light blue highlight on the edges of the figures, thus defining them even more in the composition.
                                Wordy as it may be, I hope you found this a little helpful - I like your piece a lot or I would not even try.
                                Good luck!

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                                • audrey dowling
                                  audrey dowling @Bob Crum last edited by

                                  thanks for your advice @Bob-Crum ! it's very right and interesting
                                  I'm also considering doing it (almost) monochrome. I will try a few colour themes and see which looks best

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                                  • audrey dowling
                                    audrey dowling last edited by audrey dowling

                                    This is where I am so far. Still a lot to do
                                    I'm hanging on to it but I'm going through a rough patch at the moment. I feel a lifetime away from the rendering quality I would like to achieve. It's like I aim too high every time and the end result is far from what I had envisaged...
                                    Also I always get to a point in the coloring where I feel like I don't have a clue what I'm doing
                                    it's so disheartening 😞
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                                    • Rapteev
                                      Rapteev last edited by

                                      Audrey, it's great! You're being too hard on yourself. I've said it before, and I'll say it again: those horrible feelings of inadequacy, nine times out of ten, reach their climax immediately before a level up. It's a consequence of seeing things you didn't see before, and a huge indicator that your eye for polishing is developing well. I guarantee there will have been a point in your art journey where you'd have looked at that piece and thought "Never in a million years will I be that good." And yet, here you are, being that good!

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                                      • audrey dowling
                                        audrey dowling last edited by

                                        thanks for the reminder @Rapteev . you're completely right and I've known that already but we tend to forget about it when we see everything black. thanks for the boost!

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                                        • Rapteev
                                          Rapteev @audrey dowling last edited by

                                          @audrey-dowling I think we all have those days 🙂

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                                          • Tyson Ranes
                                            Tyson Ranes @audrey dowling last edited by Tyson Ranes

                                            @audrey-dowling I took your graphic and warmed up the foreground a little and slightly blurred background. I really like this composition and the only tweaking I saw off the bat was creating more depth with contrasting warmer foreground with cooler background, also points of high contrast in the foreground where you want to draw the viewers eye makes it pop more as well and less contrast in the background. I just selected the foreground and tweaked it in the adjustments on Photoshop. 0_1493524186089_SVSForumFriend2.jpg

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