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    • bharris
      bharris last edited by

      @Dulcie Thank you very much! Yeah I am playing with those values now. The hard part is just having it be a night drawing and trying to figure how soft to make things and trying to envision what I can do with the color to heighten it.

      No you're not long winded! I always appreciate your feed back, you're spot on!

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      • bharris
        bharris last edited by

        Any better?

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        • Stephanie Hider
          Stephanie Hider @bharris last edited by

          @bharris Great illustration, so much fun can' wait to see it in color.

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          • bharris
            bharris last edited by

            How is this lighting and color scheme working? I'm struggling with the back two girls and the one in front of Santa; their clothes need to contrast but not take up a whole lot of attention...

            naughty christmas 7.JPG

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            • Bobby Aquitania
              Bobby Aquitania @bharris last edited by Bobby Aquitania

              @bharris maybe " cool " them out like the tree on the corner of the house?

              Edit: I did this real fast, and left their faces shining, which maybe good be a tad brighter, I'll leave that up to you.
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              • bharris
                bharris last edited by

                @Bobby-Aquitania I'll try it. I've been shying away from it because I didn't want to lose them completely, but no other warm colors worked for me here.

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                • Lydia M
                  Lydia M last edited by

                  You can go a lot bolder with this. I just duplicated the image and changed the top to a vivid light blending mode. It darkened and brightened the areas. I'm not say that's the technique you should use to change it, because you'd have to flatten the whole image but it's just to show that it needs more contrast. And watch out for the airbrush. Your shadows are very blurry and kind of "fuzzing off" the edges of your subjects. It's making it all murky. Lee told me that cast shadows are 2 shades darker than the local color and they have harder edges. Form shadows are soft.

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                  • bharris
                    bharris last edited by

                    @gimmehummus I figured that once I started really laying on the color it would saturate it and I'd play with the brightness, but you're so right. I'll deepen those cast shadows. It a little hard with all the light sources to know how dark to go.

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                    • Bobby Aquitania
                      Bobby Aquitania last edited by Bobby Aquitania

                      That window is so bright now, the kids look like they're about to be War of the Worlds vaporized! BWWWAAANGGHHH!!!
                      Just kidding... the jewel tones in the sleigh are nice though, I would keep that for sure.

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                      • Lydia M
                        Lydia M last edited by

                        Naughty kids get vaporized in the presence of Christmas magic. Lol.

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                        • Kevin Longueil
                          Kevin Longueil SVS OG @bharris last edited by

                          @bharris This is such a nice piece! - one thing that I would say critique wise is that the focal point is going to be in the gutter of the book - I think too that it may be a little crowded in the space between Santa and the sleigh - would it be worth looking at to move Santa's side of the composition to the left a bit? - possibly bringing the little girl that is sticking her tongue out to the left also - the other thing I was wondering is about Santa's eye - will he get an eye?.....I think not having the eye leaves the image too open to projections - if you can define Santa's attitude for us it would remove the tension I feel there - for me I want him to be good natured and twinkly eyed in his attitude...but this may not be your intent ....he may be upbraiding the children...not sure though - anyways I really like your piece and it does look good the way it is 🙂

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                          • bharris
                            bharris last edited by

                            @Kevin-Longueil I will add an eye on Santa!Thank you! I realize now that those areas were too close, and it'd be easy to make larger if it was going into a book, but I really don't want to try to move those layers this late in the game.... laziness...

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                            • bharris
                              bharris last edited by

                              I've brightened the colors a lot and tried to warm up the lights. I still have to go over the details and highlights to really paint and define things. Is this working alright? I'm trying not to wash things out with color (I'm a color person anyway) and have a few good focal points across the page.

                              naughty children 5.JPG

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                                • Cali Ward
                                  Cali Ward last edited by

                                  Best idea ever!!!

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                                  • bharris
                                    bharris last edited by

                                    brittanyharris.jpg

                                    All done and sent!

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                                    • Stephanie Hider
                                      Stephanie Hider last edited by

                                      Love your lighting! All of it is so wonderful 🙂

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                                      • Chip Valecek
                                        Chip Valecek SVS Team SVS OG @bharris last edited by

                                        @bharris Looks fantastic!


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                                        • Rich Green
                                          Rich Green SVS OG @bharris last edited by

                                          @bharris Really nice work! Your concept was so clever from the start and to now see it completed with the nice cool and warms tones and lighting - really nicely done! Best of luck tonight and congrats on such a great piece!

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                                          • bharris
                                            bharris last edited by

                                            @Stephanie-Hider @Chip-Valecek and @Rich-Green Thank you for your comments! It was a struggle, but worth it!

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