Portfolio pieces WIP- help please

RobinCampbellArt

Hi- @Nyrryl-Cadiz
From the original Mango Legend sketch, you moved into painting your work well...the ghost girl is perfect. I like this image a lot. I just went through a portfolio workshop and the faculty that gave feed back asked us to think about showing characters in series, usually three. I saw a second sketch of your character in a field. Ideally there should be a third. I hope you post a third series sketch for the Legend of the Mango set.

I’m also wondering if the aim for your portfolio is for getting picture book work, if so you should be thinking about open areas where potential text could go in all your images.

I love your painting style....are you working digitally? If so what kind of brushes are you using.

Looking forward to seeing more of your stuff. Love it

Nyrryl Cadiz

Here’s another update!

Nyrryl Cadiz

@RobinCampbellArt Hi, Robin! I’m very glad you like my art. Thanks. I do have a third piece for the Legend of the Mango series but that’ll have to go in the back burner for now. I was adviced to beef up the variety in portfolio. So for now, I’m more focused on adding numerous scenes preferably Filipino culture inspired. Yes, I do aim in getting into the children’s book market. I also agree on leaving space for the text in your illustration. I try to incorporate that in my pieces. However, some of my next pieces may or may not have that space though. Hopefully the illustration itself can carry the story.

As for my brushes, I use fairly simple brushes. I only use four actually. I hate using a ton of brushes. They’re just too tedious and impractical for my taste. The brushes I use are:
Hard Airbrush
Soft Air Brush
8B Pencil Brush
Chalk Brush

I look forward seeing your work too.

@Nyrryl-Cadiz
I really like this composition! And I especially like the way you're able to express age without breaking style. It's such an important skill, one that I definitely need to work on, so it really shows how much work you put into your craft. Can't wait to see how you color it!

Nyrryl Cadiz

@Alicja-W thanks!

Nyrryl Cadiz

Hi, everyone! Just doing some color comps. I was told to use more vibrant colors in my piece so I’m going all out.

MichaelaH

I like the strong colors

Nyrryl Cadiz

@MichaelaH Thanks ! Any comments?

Elizabeth Rose

Wow girl! You are a power house! Keep it coming! I love watching your work come to life

Coreyartus

I am amazed and stupefied by how fast you are cranking these out!! All of them are lovely!! Very nicely done!! These are going to be great additions to your portfolio!!

Nyrryl Cadiz

@Squirrel-Size wow thanks! I’ll keep ‘em coming.

Nyrryl Cadiz

@Coreyartus thanks! I’m very glad you like them. I’m not really that fast. ️ I just have a lot of time on my hands right now especially that I don’t have school anymore. It has freed up a lot of time. Personally though, I don’t think I’m being as productive as I could be. I get easily distracted by youtube and games. All this free time is new to me LOL. I’m still getting the hang of illustrating full time. Hopefully, I can get my act together soon. Thanks again for the input.

Nyrryl Cadiz

Hi everyone! Here’s another update. I’ve started the coloring process.

Nyrryl Cadiz

Here’s an update. Almost done. Any input?

Nyrryl Cadiz

I added a few more details. In the story the Bird is supposed to be singing this hypnotic song, should I add notes and stuff? I want to but I think it will be over kill. Should I do it? What do you guys think?

MichaelaH

It looks so good, I like how the other figurs really look like stone statues...

Nyrryl Cadiz

@MichaelaH Thanks! In the story whoever hears the song of the Adarna falls into a deep slumber and if the bird’s droppings happen to fall on you, you turn into stone. The 2 figures are supposed to be the older brothers of the young prince. They initialy tried to capture the bird but the fell victim to its song.

@Nyrryl-Cadiz
Just a small thing that I'm noticing: The contrast between the birds eye and the rest of its body is high, and it's the first place my eye goes to. If you choose to lower the contrast on the eye I think it would allow the colors in the wings/shape of the bird to be noticed first.

Nyrryl Cadiz

@Alicja-W hi, Alicja! Thanks for the input. I’m fine with the eye though. I’ll stick with it for now. Thanks again! I really appreciate it.

LauraA

Wow! I've just gone through this entire thread and really like all the drawings and compositions you've got going. I really like how much work you're doing, all of it high quality. On the last series, there was something I liked better about the first color drawing than the second, and it improved in the third when you added the texture in the background. It's something about the bird's tail, perhaps the white outlines or how local and strong the colors look compared to the draft.

Maybe to suggest the song you could open his beak? If you need a musical symbol, I might put in a few swirly lines, but not typical music notes, especially not dark ones.

Anyway, I'm just trying to leave a quick comment because I realize that usually I don't feel confident with my comments and therefore don't leave them--and that helps no one!--so take it with a grain of salt.