02-25-2021, 01:20 PM
Quote:Thank you Skeffin for that link! I was kind of lost on how to continue and structure myself and I gave it a try. I have drawn a lot of elipses and boxes over the last days, I hope my motivation will keep through all 7 lessons. Did you already complete them?
I think I got to the lesson animals, and after that just stopped. I need to go over the lessons again tbh but I've been putting it off myself.
Also your jellyfish painting could do with the values being pushed - if you turn it to grayscale, everything is quite low contrast. Did a shoddy paintover where I upped the value contrast so things stand out more. A good thing to do when doing thumbnails is to do ones where you only use 3 -5 values spanning between black and white, so you know it looks good in grayscale. Colour is secondary to value by a long shot.
Also the colours used were all similar levels of contrast, whereas generally you want to vary them. Areas that are focal points should be the most saturated, and greyer colours are your friend ! they help tie the whole thing together and allow your more saturated areas to really pop. With that in mind in the paintover i toned down the bluey purple of the sky, but kept the bright reds and oranges of the jellyfish and the very bottom of the sky where you still see some sun. On second thought, you may have been wanting that contrast between purple and orange in the sky but you could still do this with a less saturated purple and you'd still get that nice colour scheme. Also those trees in the background won't be heavily saturated as they are so far away. They might get a tinge of the orange from the sunset, but they wouldn't be that bright purple colour you have going on. Colours aren't exactly amazing in the paintover but its 3am here so....
I like the concept a lot, it kind of reminds me of stranger things cos of the bike, the forest in the distance with the fence, and the fantasy element