Group run through creative environment design week 6 art and feedback

[braden H]

@Erin-Cortese If you need to keep those power lines for story purposes that's totally cool. It's not that they look bad, it's that without context they just look like lines. I think you need a way to show people that they ARE power lines.

My solution would be to have them running to a power pole situated behind the building and stretching off into the distance.

Or a bird sitting on the line may give it just enough context to work.

Neat stuff so far

[Erin.Cortese]

@Braden-Hallett Thanks! I tried to put a pole in the foreground and it looked like a hot mess, but I did not think of moving it toward the back. I will give that a try!

[Coley]

I developed it a little further tho it is still quite rough. just roughing out ideas. tho I started to get a little detailed on the blanket on the bed. So I didn't know if that's too much for the subjective take?

[Erin.Cortese]

@Coley I love the horses on the blanket, really nice detail!

[Erin.Cortese]

@Braden-Hallett @nyrrylcadiz @Coley @Heather-Boyd

I have moved the power lines to the back all together and added more detail so they are recognizable (line work is still rough). Does this work? Thanks in advance everyone, I really seem to be caught up on this detail.

[Coley]

@Erin-Cortese I am no expert being reasonably new to illustration but I think it is a lot better. the lines are not floating like your husband has said (my husband does this to me too lol - it's good and bad lol). They also vary in length , shape, etc from one side of the structure to the other which is good!!! Sometimes it's good to get hung up on details if we figure it out in the end

[Heather Boyd]

@Erin-Cortese

I think that's better - just watch where the pole comes down -seems to disappear and merge with the tree trunk at the bottom.
Small thing -your foreground leaf is relatively the same size as the one above the lines. But the placement is not great, I will move it inward.

[Coley]

@Erin-Cortese thanks

[Erin.Cortese]

@Heather-Boyd I’m hoping to do a bit of a cheat here - no matter where I draw the bottom of the pole it will be too busy with the trees at the bottom, so I’m no going to draw the bottom of the pole . It will be dark and the pole is in the distance, so I’m hoping it will look natural not to see it. The placement of it is not great though, so I will definitely move it inward.

[demotlj]

@Erin-Cortese I think having that pole in the back makes the wires look a lot better. I can't wait to see the next step.

[braden H]

@Coley if this is a study I'd focus on how the values and composition make the piece feel. If this is going to be a finished piece, then detail away

[braden H]

@Erin-Cortese I think that works nicely, now! Having that power pole fade away behind the tree's will look pretty awesome.

[Heather Boyd]

@Aleksey Are you still working on this penguin farm? How is your progress?

[Heather Boyd]

Not sure what week to add this one too so week 6 it is!
A step by step to final. Improved on colour and thought I would put my pinterest to better use and tried some of the techniques out for applying colour.
If you have a favourite -let me know

[ArtofAleksey]

@Heather-Boyd im taking a break from that because of my residency. I got to the rough sketch phase and stopped.

[Erin.Cortese]

@Heather-Boyd These look so good! I like them all, but the 4th (far right) is my favourite. I was planning on being done with environment design after my subjective is finished, but seeing these makes me want improve my exercises and do a coloured sheet of thumbnails.

[Heather Boyd]

@Erin-Cortese

Aww your sweet- let me know if you want me to inspire you with more work lols. The 4th one took me the longest - but once I found that colour it was happiness exploding (second colour I chose). I may consider building my final around one of these. Thanks

[Coley]

@Heather-Boyd I like far right one the best too they're all interesting though, great work.

[demotlj]

@Heather-Boyd Very cool.

[Erin.Cortese]

Colour is still a thorn in my side , I would love some feedback on these colour studies. Which one works better? Are my values ok? These are just the local colours, no highlights or shadows included.