05-26-2024, 10:54 AM
TrashPanda: Great input, and I appreciate the paintover as well, very helpful! I love what you stated in regards to composition, I'll keep this in mind when coming up with new sketches and concepts. I just revised the painting heavily based on your paintover and I'm happy with the improvements, so I really appreciate it!
darktiste: Thank you for your support as always! You've made some great points, and I'll definitely incorporate thumbnailing for my new illustrations when I get the chance. I actually use this technique for most of my freelance work but don't incorporate it much for my personal pieces strangely, I think it's because I generally have a clear idea of what I want to do but thumbnails can help improve on that foundation so I agree with your input. With that said I think the mermaid image is done now, just posted it below!
JosephCow: Thanks! And yeah sometimes I make drastic changes as I work on the image, almost as if it's taking on a life of it's own. I try to be more careful of this and it doesn't happen as often as it used to, but in this case I just felt the values were stronger with the lighter tones. Great feedback and suggestions as well, thank you for that!
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Thanks to everyone for the awesome feedback, I feel the image improved greatly since receiving the critiques and implementing them, so I'm very thankful. I made some final changes to the illustration and I'm officially calling it finished. Looking forward to creating a new mermaid for next year's challenge as well, learned a lot with this image and will definitely be applying what I learned to new illustrations! Below is the final image:
darktiste: Thank you for your support as always! You've made some great points, and I'll definitely incorporate thumbnailing for my new illustrations when I get the chance. I actually use this technique for most of my freelance work but don't incorporate it much for my personal pieces strangely, I think it's because I generally have a clear idea of what I want to do but thumbnails can help improve on that foundation so I agree with your input. With that said I think the mermaid image is done now, just posted it below!
JosephCow: Thanks! And yeah sometimes I make drastic changes as I work on the image, almost as if it's taking on a life of it's own. I try to be more careful of this and it doesn't happen as often as it used to, but in this case I just felt the values were stronger with the lighter tones. Great feedback and suggestions as well, thank you for that!
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Thanks to everyone for the awesome feedback, I feel the image improved greatly since receiving the critiques and implementing them, so I'm very thankful. I made some final changes to the illustration and I'm officially calling it finished. Looking forward to creating a new mermaid for next year's challenge as well, learned a lot with this image and will definitely be applying what I learned to new illustrations! Below is the final image: