Crimson Daggers — Art forum

Some warm-up and studies:
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Trying to figure out some colors for this:
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And some 60 sec gestures:
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A 30 min painting , yup:
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soo many studies! this is really inspiring! thanks for that and keep them coming ;)

Thank you Elaeis. I'll keep them coming :).
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A 30 min -theme- heavy armor:
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Trying to design the armor:
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30 min-theme extreme racing :
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I really love that armored girl piece! Armor design looks great so far, too, just make sure to add a strap to secure the plates on her upper arm (normally there's one attached to the last segment). Keep up the great work! :)

Thank you for the tip Elif. I added the straps :).
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30 min -theme-human plant
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Trying to put in some colors :
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32 min -undead giant
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Did some more work on this:
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45 sec gestures:
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30 min-halloween mansion
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I really like the balance and sense of movement in the gestures, and that new illustration is coming up nicely, keep it up :D

That last page is REALLY hard to see , might want to lower the brightness on it on your scanner setting...also how big(/what is your scanner)is your scanner so that you can scan in both pages ?

Thank you Egbu. Gonna keep pushing the illustration.
@ Greatdictator - My scanner is A4 size and the page I'm drawing on are A3 so I scan the page in 2 pieces.
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30 min-carnival of the dead
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Happy self-portrait day! Gonna be doing one today and posting it here and in atrenr's thread.
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30 min -the white moose:
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Some more work on the piece, the rendering is taking a long time:
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30 min-Giant staircase
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self portrait
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45 sec gestures
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30 min-dirty chef
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Did some more work on this. Going slowly( more time than I expected)
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30 min-viking marksman
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Did some more rendering on this and created some masks for the detail on the armor.
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30 min weather demons
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30 min living doll
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30 sec gestures
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30 min -dock crane
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Some more work on the illustration, getting there:
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30 sec gestures:
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hmm dude, i think you worked so much on the last illustration ( lady with armor ) that you kinda lost it. Tbh, i don't feel like there is something coming from it. Let's sum up : there is a female warrior sitting on a cutted tree, with some armor on the ground, and nothing exept grass around her. Sorry, but it doesn't make sense to me. Is it at the end of a battle ? or is she escaping the battlefield ? we don't know much what's happening/what happened ! We only see that she's looking sad but we don't know why ! When you do a painting, everything must have a purpose ! Just the way you light your painting can tell so much, you can use sunrise for the beginning of a journey, or the end of a battle for example, etc ! You light seems a direct sunlight, but unfortunately, it doesn't appear like that, in sunlight, contrast is really strong, and you have warm light/cool shadow ! keep strongest contrast for the center of interest ( face, creature, etc ) ! Also, don't try to render everything, it gives a kindof messy look, especially for something like grass, with tons of texture ! most of the texture happen between light and shadow, and it's way more interesting and realist to suggest texture, especially in shadow ! check out great painting and look for that !