Comment 75757
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Thanks so much, Ark, for the input!
I probably won't change her too much now, but I wanted to know so I could apply the tips to the one currently in progress.
Although the face overexposure bugs me, too, so I may have to go in and adjust it. While I'm there, I could play a bit with the tones, but I want her to be somewhat green in skin tone, too.
I think you're right about lightening the green of the clouds as well, to bring out the contrast. I will have to see if I can still do this.
As for the skin texture - she's not meant to be a nymph nor an elf. She's the essence of the forest itself. A spirit, as it were. I thought about giving her a bark texture when I started the painting, and I may still do so, but I have to make it one that will show up in the card printing size, too, which is something like 2.5 inches by 3.5 inches, so quite small.
So I will have to work on this one when I'm done the rest of the deck (in something like 5 years), since by then I should have a much better grasp of the media, too.
Again, thanks so much!
I'm so grateful you took the time to do such an in-depth critique.
I probably won't change her too much now, but I wanted to know so I could apply the tips to the one currently in progress.
Although the face overexposure bugs me, too, so I may have to go in and adjust it. While I'm there, I could play a bit with the tones, but I want her to be somewhat green in skin tone, too.
I think you're right about lightening the green of the clouds as well, to bring out the contrast. I will have to see if I can still do this.
As for the skin texture - she's not meant to be a nymph nor an elf. She's the essence of the forest itself. A spirit, as it were. I thought about giving her a bark texture when I started the painting, and I may still do so, but I have to make it one that will show up in the card printing size, too, which is something like 2.5 inches by 3.5 inches, so quite small.
So I will have to work on this one when I'm done the rest of the deck (in something like 5 years), since by then I should have a much better grasp of the media, too.
Again, thanks so much!
I'm so grateful you took the time to do such an in-depth critique.Comment ID 75757
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If she's a spirit, why don't you make her atherial looking by giving her a transparency and glow? If you double her colours, and put a gaussion blur on the higher of the two levels, it'll give a glow that's very soft. If you then put some green underneath the glow (without loosing the details) then you can make her look slightly transparent and still bright. IT's a thought.
One - she's not separate from the background.
Two - she already has the Gaussian-Blur glow. It shows up pretty clear on my own monitor, but I think some monitors don't pick it up too easily so it gets lost.
and Three - I'd have to check, but I think I've already flattened the whole image (or almost the whole image) since when I was making it it just kept getting too big for my computer to handle without jerky movements.
I think I actually like the texture idea best, though. It will be really cool if I can get her skin to have the texture of bark without changing the colours too much.