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(01-05-2024, 08:28 PM)FallowGround Wrote: This one has very 'don't talk to me or my son ever again' vibes and it's really fun.

(01-05-2024, 03:50 PM)Lege1 Wrote: If there is anything I have gotten from this round, it's that I simply love to just draw and paint, especially on my terms. 

(01-08-2024, 06:34 AM)darktiste Wrote: I would pick the painterly version anyways just because the hatching for me here  doesn't work in favor of creating a smooth snow feeling. Depend if you want realism or a graphical approach.

The thing with the style idea i gave you was that it was suppose to be monotone so no orange no yellow no brown.

So basically it like in the post 6 but i gave you the way to adapt it to any monotone scenario

One thing for the sweeper hold by the big snow men is that it not centered

By the way you kill it even those the participation is low you have pump out decent quality and good quantity of work.

I also want to note how you have play with subtle texture but manage to not go over board on relying on those texture brush to carry the piece

Thank you Darktiste and I went ahead and put together a monochrome version for you above. I appreciate the good words on participation and the broom is definitely wonky. I don't like relying on brushes to make the image but would rather paint in a lot of my own textures and effects. Glad you like the painterly version. 

(01-08-2024, 06:40 AM)JosephCow Wrote: These are so good Lege, I'm kinda jealous how easily you come up with this stuff. I feel like I'm just like uuuuuh i can't think of anything...

I like the snowman one the best, I think the final version without hatching does look the best, but I like how the hatching looked in the drawing so I think there's definitely a way to incorporate it. Maybe with more flat colors so it has more a of a comic book vibe.

<<<Thanks on the good words and I just make it a point to have fun with what I'm doing. In my strong opinion the problem should be having too many ideas. I'm glad you like the Snowmen piece, I like that one too, and I also like the sketch version of it. If the sketch version was re-done as an ink out and colored like a 90's comic style, it would definitely look super cool; I could do it, but not really wanting to redo the same image in a different style. If that's a look you all would like then I could strive for that approach on the next image I do, instead of doing the painterly thing. Then the question would be to keep the black lines or show them in color, or keep mostly black lines and do some color line work here and there.