Building my portfolio

WithLinesOfInk

@tessw So cute! I think you could brighten the mom and kid a bit, or push back the background even further. But the values among the background elements are very cohesive and non-invasive!

WithLinesOfInk

WithLinesOfInk

Here, this is kind of what I was thinking. I can send you the photoshop file with layers if you want to see kind of where I slopped everything in.

Jose Ramos

@tessw said in Building my portfolio:

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Great work Tess...I love it!

TessaW

@Jose-Ramos Thank you!

Tyson Ranes

@tessw Your stuff is awesome, has a great quality/feel to it.

TessaW

@withlinesofink said in Building my portfolio:

@tessw So cute! I think you could brighten the mom and kid a bit, or push back the background even further. But the values among the background elements are very cohesive and non-invasive!

Thanks for your feedback! Sorry, should have replied to you sooner, but I was thinking about how to incorporate your advice.

I'm getting closer and closer (at least, to the best of my ability), which seems like it's harder and harder to make progress on this. Still have a bit to do. I don't want to emphasize the mom as much, which is why I have chosen to keep her pretty dark and less contrasted. Do you think that's ok for the image as a whole? Or are you finding that you want the mom to be as much of a focal point as the girl and the gecko?

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TessaW

@tyson-ranes Thank you very much!

WithLinesOfInk

@tessw This works perfectly for that intention! I like it!

smithdraws

@tessw This has a lot of things working for it and the way you've staged it with the lighting reads as being from the child's point of view which I think is what you were going for. Only one thing sticks out to me as needing addressed. The child's legs seem too short relative to her arms and torso; some foreshortening is appropriate but as is the legs seem too short.

TessaW

@smithdraws Thanks! Made them longer. . . hopefully long enough. Put the correction back in the first post.