Group run through creative environment design week 6 art and feedback

[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.

[braden H]

@Erin-Cortese Colour's a thorn in all sides.

I'm partial to option 1. It gives a nice sense of moonlight. If you really dial up the warm light behind the clock it would make a nice warm contrast in all the cool.

I'm less partial to option 2. The red's nice and cool, but it makes me feel like there's a big ol' spotlight somewhere off camera.

I think the values are working fine

[demotlj]

@Erin-Cortese I agree with @Braden-Hallett both in that color is also my Achilles heel and also that #1 is my favorite. It feels more unified and sets a nice mood.

[Coley]

@Erin-Cortese I also like the first one. Colors are harmonious.

[Coley]

this is worthy of slowvember! slowly picking away.......opacity turned down but I am reinforcing lines and re-drawing things, mostly things on top and right hand side are re-done at this point. slow and I feel like a pain posting it in a way but it makes me feel like I am making SOME sort of progress..........dealing with a busy life and kids studying for finals and I am having some eye strain lately that is a real pain in the butt for getting this sort of work done Will keep picking away at it.
I intended the horse to be a regular horse (went from horse to unicorn back to horse) but now I wonder once I sketched it and you could see the lines of the window through the horse if it might be fun to play around with the horse being a dream (translucent/see though) .........so I will toy with that.
and yeah I guess I am putting characters in an environmental final lol but I thought that's eventuallly where I am going so am plowing ahead with that

[braden H]

@Coley Nothin' wrong with working on a thing slowly I think it's shaping up nicely!