WIP Uncle Carl Has a Chicken......Please critique!

[MOO]

Thanks! I'm stubborn so I will keep trying to find a way. Your legs look a lot better than mine. I thought sticking them out straight would make it crazier . I see what you mean though. I really appreciate your taking time ot try and help me. I'll post more trys. You can look at them if you want to but I know you're busy.

[WhiteboardJim]

@Marsha-Kay-Ottum-Owen I love the idea of the legs moving forward to express the crazy, I've been watching a ton of the past 3rd Thursday Critiques on Youtube as I can and the three greats we revere so much often say the three quarter view is of great importance and push the expression and angle as much as possible. I might try to use @Will-Terry 's suggestion with making the legs bigger but keep them pushing out, just as another try in a thumbnail or concept size sketch. Keep working hard and these will progress.

[MOO]

@WhiteboardJim Thanks. I actually did a head with no body but just front feet to see if that would work. I really want that cow to be a certain way for the effect I want.....I'm going to try something and will post it to see what the comments tell me. Thanks for your encouragement!

[MOO]

@WhiteboardJim

[MOO]

This one is really light but, I'm thinking it might eb the solution if the background is done right! I won't have to worry about the body at all!

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[MOO]

@Will-Terry How about if I do something like this (WIP) I got rid of the body altogether and surrounded it with "action" and just the front hooves. Still figuring out the debris, etc. in the background. In the end, it is going to be a double page spread with "Here comes the COW! on the lefthand side. The word COW is filling the page and would have the background like this with feathers, etc. flying all over. I've also thought of letting the ears fly back......

[aska]

@Marsha-Kay-Ottum-Owen brilliant solution:-) I would probably add more chaos, where the body should be

[MOO]

@aska Still working on it. Here's what I did today but I see a few things I need to fix. The eyes look stuck on and flat and I need to lighten things up around them to make them look better...I think. I'm sure ther are other problems I'm not seeing right now. I need a break! The line down the one eye isn't actually on the pictuer. It happened when I snapped the photo. Don't know what it is...just a weird fluke.

I just posted a better, new improved version again. The hooves don't look so much like mushrooms and the eyes are a bit better

[MOO]

@Marsha-Kay-Ottum-Owen

[aska]

@Marsha-Kay-Ottum-Owen defenietly take a break! Its good to step away n do smth else. Looking good tho, but if u dont break u might spoil it;) i would probably add a bit darker areas on the cow, just like the cow with mushroom legs;)

[MOO]

@aska Yes, I need to do a lot more to build teh contrast, etc. I am ready to leave it alone Thanks!