Rotohail's "Reclusive" SketchBook

[Rotohail]

Why don't you play with some colour notes? Do you know the work of Yan Kyohara or Pedro Kruger? Maybe they work will create on you some spark of new things to try out. Maybe Even Amundsen and Mike Azevedo you already know, they are good inspiration of problem solving in painting and character design. Hope to see more things from you, you inspired me bro! Don't lose your steam! :D

Color notes? Like accents? I'm trying to keep my colors simple because is the main thing I'm trying to learn currently, I'm trying to stay within triads or split-complementaries for the time being.
Not a clue about the first two but I'll check them out! I see stuff from Azevedo and Amundsen from time to time on Artstation, I think Amundsen is overall my favorite pick, superb line control, shape/form, gesture and color in all their characters, while still keeping that realistic edge. The thing is though, they are too advanced for me to understand how they approach what they do lol, can't wrap my head around it yet. Gotta keep moving forward!

Yooo that Halloween image is so great, I love it! You should widen the bg a bit so that it's not touching the edges of the clouds and letters and maybe add one more small element coming out of the frame on the right the same way the pumpkins do. A little bit more work and you have a masterpiece :D

Sounds like a spot on idea! I'm terrible at designing frames lol. For now I prefer to leave it like that, and hopefully in the future redo it completely to see what can I improve.

i like the bulge on the squire, very hot; howloween is cute. the bent squire leg is kinda strange, also thanks for all the tips in my sb :)

HA! Well that dark line sure must go, but hey! Tastes. Yeah the legs turned out kinda off, need to work on that. No problem! I see you are doing great so far.

Here is the redline. Green shinbones are where I see them, red shinbone is where it seems to be:



I like how peaceful the scene is. The guy may be slightly annoyed by the fairies or concerned by something they say but also amused.

I had imagined the Howloween rendering much darker, especially the clouds, but I understand the characters must remain salient.

I like the (apparently) simple brushwork on the small raven study.

Oh yeah now that you mention it it does feel like it bends a bit too much, oh well, gonna have to practice those views. That was my idea! Ha ha, I'm glad you got the same vibe, like I was in between making him annoyed or amused! Those things are mischievous, but playful. Hmm, I guess I could go darker but honestly I never push it enough. I think to practice that I should focus on inking and using dark shakes to define stuff. That probably will give me a slap.
That's mostly my lack of control ha ha, I need to seriously improve my brushwork! I keep reminding myself to slow down and not scratch too much but is not coming together yet, but thanks! Anything you liked about it well, it was a fluke.

So I've been since the start of the week sick lol, it had been a while since I had one of these, fever, dizziness and stomach ache, all in one perfectly wrapped "fuck you!" lol. I tried a page but it wasn't turning out too well, so I moved onto this one in between yesterday and today . Leaving a WIP for now. Need to clean and color the main stuff, hopefully during the weekend. I tried to go safe on this one, back to my comfort zone. Next page backgrounds again.