06-06-2014, 09:17 AM
After the critique session for CD Arena is over i felt the need to explain some stuff.
I am thankful for the critique and i know a picture has to speak for itself but... I feel like I need to get some thoughts of my mind - even if it sounds like some whinerly defense.
1) yes it is an S in the RedRose - that typefont is called Fraktur and if you bought any german book 70 years ago it would have an S like that. I have chosen the font because the fairy tale books of my grandma looked like that. And i assumed the typefont is common knowledge.
2) yes - time ran out - my tablet was not working and i had to communicate with the wacom service for 5 days till it worked again. But I really put hours into this and is not some 2 hour thing. even if it may look that way. If you think i make pictures like this in one or two hours you seriously overestimate my abilities. i can do copy studies in short time but not work from imagination. But time challenge was one of the reasons for the style. but i did not simply used every photoshop filter i found.
3) the other reason for the style was that the challenge was "poster". i first went for a more illustration like version - and then someone pointed out that "poster" is defined as bold and simple work - so rendering like in an illustration was out of scope - that is why i went to that form. i should have put faces on the girls though.
the following wip-shot was the last save i made before i went into the cutout style. till then the fur studies made sense. after it of course not.
![[Image: composition_by_wolkenfels-d7l61mh.jpg]](http://fc08.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2014/156/d/b/composition_by_wolkenfels-d7l61mh.jpg)
I am thankful for the critique and i know a picture has to speak for itself but... I feel like I need to get some thoughts of my mind - even if it sounds like some whinerly defense.
1) yes it is an S in the RedRose - that typefont is called Fraktur and if you bought any german book 70 years ago it would have an S like that. I have chosen the font because the fairy tale books of my grandma looked like that. And i assumed the typefont is common knowledge.
2) yes - time ran out - my tablet was not working and i had to communicate with the wacom service for 5 days till it worked again. But I really put hours into this and is not some 2 hour thing. even if it may look that way. If you think i make pictures like this in one or two hours you seriously overestimate my abilities. i can do copy studies in short time but not work from imagination. But time challenge was one of the reasons for the style. but i did not simply used every photoshop filter i found.
3) the other reason for the style was that the challenge was "poster". i first went for a more illustration like version - and then someone pointed out that "poster" is defined as bold and simple work - so rendering like in an illustration was out of scope - that is why i went to that form. i should have put faces on the girls though.
the following wip-shot was the last save i made before i went into the cutout style. till then the fur studies made sense. after it of course not.