January snow wip. Feedback
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@peteolczyk I really hope you do finish this piece for the contest. Would love to see this entry. But I totally understand if time is an issue. Looking forward to see this piece moving forward
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@peteolczyk I adore the render on this and its a massive improvement to the one before. Everything from the textures to the expressions and the bright lines is awesome. Good luck with this one!
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@neschof ooo thank you Nicola you’ve made some really good points there. Thank you so much for your help and point of view.
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@Rachel-Horne thank you Rachel for your help. I agree about the distance with the flowers too, I can see it now you’ve pointed it out. Also I can see your point about the intimacy of the scene on the first one. I regret not spending a lot more time on alternative sketches now. Thanks again
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@xin-li thank you for the encouragement I’ll try my best
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@Nathalie-Kranich thank you, it’s a bit of an experiment with textures and line so I’m not sure if it’s all tying in. I might be trying to do too much at once.
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@peteolczyk Well I don't know about you but sometimes when you've really gotten into a piece I find it hard to go back and start from scratch...that's something I struggle with a lot. It's a lovely image.
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@Rachel-Horne yes I know what you mean. Thank you for the encouragement Rachel, I really appreciate it
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@peteolczyk yes, I think it all comes out of the writing! All my drawings begin with words. For the January contest drawing I put a concept and characters around the text of the prompt and as I was working on thumbnails for it, I thought of another image I would like to do. At that point I had to go back and rewrite the characters, because a series of images has a way of putting a check on the development of characters. So I was thinking about your process and how messy mine gets, and I think each step is meant to be a check so going back and redoing stuff is the main point!
So basically thinking through it helped me see that that's why it leads to a sixth step final painting that's stress-free. It's because i've struggled through all the problems along the way, and now I'm thinking that I won't get better at it and that's ok. I think as I use this process, I will be better at knowing what to give up when I go back to a previous step.
Anyway, thank you for posting more about your process. No matter how well I know it isn't true, I always imagine that illustrators I admire can do everything easily the first time.
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@carolinedrawing thank you for sharing your process too Caroline. It seems like I might be the only one who isn’t starting off with a good written process. I sometimes involve the odd word but it’s more ideas generation than keywords, concepts and story. I think writing as a regular thing might be helpful for me too, it’s something I’ve always been weak at.
I’m thinking that the written element explored early on would give the rest of the process a more solid base.
