03-27-2023, 10:05 AM
Her fresh fish eyes are lovely, just missing the dorsal fin on top of the head now :P
Value grouping version B with the darker woods works for me but it suddenly makes me want to see some highlights on the lower vegetation from the light reflecting off the water. I'll revise my position once you have the bright flowers on the floating leaves though, as this is going to change the balance.
Sketches of hands: I could say that some look a bit made of rubber, but as you said it helps more to investigate why they do. Were you a rubber tree in a previous life? Have you been working mostly at Disney? I'm out of clues... It takes an accomplished teacher to trace back to the roots.
Tracing. You probably know that old masters traced using a special optic device through which they saw both the model and their canvas. I do some tracing once in a while when I want to untangle complex things, especially, yes, foreshortenings. However, each time, I fail to learn from the exercise because it doesn't let me comprehend the volumes and structure.
Comics are even more of a special case because the panels have to be readable fast, and many foreshortenings gain in being hugely simplified and transformed based on structure rather than actual aspect. Furthermore, a comic being thousands of images, the reader has plenty of time to adjust to the author's particular simplification tricks, and I think it works fine in the long run.
Value grouping version B with the darker woods works for me but it suddenly makes me want to see some highlights on the lower vegetation from the light reflecting off the water. I'll revise my position once you have the bright flowers on the floating leaves though, as this is going to change the balance.
Sketches of hands: I could say that some look a bit made of rubber, but as you said it helps more to investigate why they do. Were you a rubber tree in a previous life? Have you been working mostly at Disney? I'm out of clues... It takes an accomplished teacher to trace back to the roots.
Tracing. You probably know that old masters traced using a special optic device through which they saw both the model and their canvas. I do some tracing once in a while when I want to untangle complex things, especially, yes, foreshortenings. However, each time, I fail to learn from the exercise because it doesn't let me comprehend the volumes and structure.
Comics are even more of a special case because the panels have to be readable fast, and many foreshortenings gain in being hugely simplified and transformed based on structure rather than actual aspect. Furthermore, a comic being thousands of images, the reader has plenty of time to adjust to the author's particular simplification tricks, and I think it works fine in the long run.