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Published: 2017-07-08 01:31:59 +0000 UTC; Views: 682; Favourites: 18; Downloads: 2
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Wow, this took a lot longer than expected. So without further ado, here's the my project list for 2017.
This goes clockwise from the outer left image. 1. New Dawn. A series of multplie interconnecting stories set in the future. While there are a couple, the main one I'm focusiing on first is "Exploration" which is the one with Tala in it. It's set on a newly discovered planet, which needs to be catalogued, researched and scouted out for terraforming. One, problem? This planet seems to be proving the impossible, possible very quickly.
Recommended if you liked: Eureka, Startrek, Firefly, and Bablyon5.
2. Elementally Challenged. Noah Hayes has one of those families, the one's where when the parent's split, the kids don't really talk to each other? So what could be better than spending a whole summer with estranged older sister, mom, and new step-mum? Probably not having a water elemental posses his sister's body, leaving him to go through her magic books, and save her, while not hurting the elemental, who seems very determined to stick it out for the summer.
Recommended if you liked: Gravity Falls, and Harry Potter.
3. RWBY Poster Series: I plan to try and make a portrait of every character in RWBY before the next season starts, finishing off with a portrait of Monty Olm. Most of the character's will be done in order of first full appearance, unless otherwise requested first.
Recommended if you liked: RWBY! (duh)
4. Series 6, Jealousy. Based off a assignment called "Series 6" given out at my school, where you do 6 pieces on one theme. I never finished mine (as my theme ended meaning I had to do around 5 versions of everything for every piece) so I'm going to redo it on the theme of jealousy.
Recommended if you liked yuumei 's piece "Selfish"
5. Joue la Joue (Play the Game): People snatched from multiple dimensions must compete to create, and keep, the peace. A ranking system is stacked against them, and who is behind this mysterious game?
Recommended if you liked: Tournament Anime and/or Film/Game theory.
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This is artwork is absolutely amazing and very detail piece. I absolutely loved the Backround!~ Q^Q
But....The lines is a bit.....sketchy which I kinda noticed and probably some of the sharp eyes to those line. and the shading and highlighting is quite...dull? and gives a lot less dept to the very piece....which you can change by adding more bright and more dark colors and not using the medium color tones alot more. by doing this you can probably gives the piece a much more dept to it and gives a bit of realistic feeling.
An example of it is this:
www.artinstructionblog.com/wp-…
As you can see the more dark and more light colors which harmonize the piece overall. and gives a much more realistic piece.
As for the background the only problem is the crystal. The same problem on the shading. I would also recommend adding a tiny bit of dark colors and adding bright and light colors. To give a more crystalize look!~
But the Overall piece is quite detailed and a wonderful artwork!~
Q^Q I hope this comment is helpful?? ;w;
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Sorry for the late reply. Thank you for helpful critique and the link. I will try to improve the tonal contrast in my piece as well the line art.
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Hey there!
Your art piece is gorgeous! I honestly can't believe I've been staring at it for 5 full minutes- I'm especially awestruck but the beautiful gems on the bottom left (how did you do that? magic??) and the incredible realistic water (once again, how???)
Although your anatomy is pretty on point already, I'd like to share a few quick tips;
1) Use a different color for the face shadows; I personally love this chart for picking tones that work together well!
i.pinimg.com/736x/60/19/2f/601…
The shadows you're using now are kind of gray which makes them look a lot less lively
2) use some sharp shadows/highlights! It looks like you airbrushed the shadows and highlights and while the airbrush is a super nice tool, sometimes it works better to first lay down hard shadows/light and then blend some parts, just like they do here; pre00.deviantart.net/719d/th/p…
But aside from those two small things, it looks utterly amazing! Great job!!
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Thank you for the compliment! I sketched out the crystals from reference, then I copied the first batch (just the line art) and repositioned them before colouring them. The water took ages. I'll try to vary up my shadow colours as the shading of the skin was one of my main issues with this piece. As for your second point, you're completely correct, and currently I'm trying to wean myself off of the blending tool and the airbrush tool.
sorry this is so late btw.
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ProjectComment brought me here.
It is a great idea to show your followers what's coming in the near future. Especially in a concepted piece of art that was made for that purpose. It deals as a preview at the same time as it can deal as a standalone piece of art, since advertisement is art itself.
I like the round shape you chose and devided it into two rings that are devided by lines again.
Did you try to fit the background colour to dA's background? They change it every now and than and it will not fit anymore after a while. I got the same problem with a piece of art I did once that has to have the same colour.
I don't see a problem in some colours going across the edges of the outer circle, but there is a blue dot in the upper part of the middle devider and there is a blue dot in the upper left corner of the whole picture. I don't know why you kept them in, but I don't think they are positive for the whole picture, since they are more on the line of being disturbing.
In your describtion, you say that you will go clockwise from the outer left image, but after RWBY, you go on with Series 6, Jealousy instead of Play the game. Just to make you aware of that.
Next I'm going to go through each picture now.
I totally like the way you drew those crystals. They look really detailed. The edges, the different colour fragments that make them look a little bit transparent.
The fact that the background is not that detailed is good in my point of view, since things I don't focus with my eyes are always a bit blurred too, but they still got enough detail to picture how it looks in my head. I don't know whether the planet and moons are in the sky, or if it is a view on this planet from space. Either way, it is done very well. I like way you added the clouds to the planet and the vague shapes of continents and islands, even deep and shallow sea seems to be visible. You really put some passion and thoughts into that planet.
I also like about that picture that there isn't a single character or vehicle in it, but you talk about a character and some futuristic setup in the describtion. That's great to make a viewer wanting to know more, because they can't imagine how it will look like. That's great advertisement!
Elementally Challenged, by the way a funny title, since it sounds like "mentally challenged". I don't know if this was intentional, but it seems to fit a bit into the story and the picture.
The picture itself contains the main characters, and I can see that magic is involved. The boy seems to be in despair and the girl looks like she has gone nuts. I don't know if you want her to look like that, but I've also seen on your other deviations that drawing a mouth, especially with the teeth shown is one of your weaknesses, but I'm sure you will improve on that. The angle you drew this person in, isn't the easiest task as well, I think. The hand of the girl needs some improvement as well, but I know from friends that they all struggle with drawing hands. Improvements come over long time of practise, not over night.
I like how you displayed the flying water. I don't know if this is the elemental itself, or if it is just water that is made by the possessed girl, but this doesn't matter. It looks like a fluid and it clearly represents water. You could deform the parts we can see of the girl through the water and even blur it a bit, since looking through water has a lot of visual effects. I recommend you looking at some photos as a reference to get an idea about those effects.
Interestingly this picture gives a lot more information about the story than the left picture, but it is still not uninteresting. Together with the describtion, it sounds a little bit too much, because you read a lot about a problematic situation. And such information can mislead the viewer a bit and since people are lazy, they may lose interest.
The RWBY poster series done looking like a fan in different colours with a very simplistic design with only one part being a small picture that doesn't tell too much (maybe it does for people who know this RWBY story) is a good idea. Things that tell enough, but show just a bit in preview, make the people interested in more. I just don't know why you placed the word RWBY different to the rest of your text. Maybe it looked strange, but the way it is now adds some uneasy tention to it, but only if you looke at it a bit longer. When I looked at it the first time, I didn't even see that. But I saw the line below it that is shorter than the others for no reason. Those two things may add up to a bigger visual problem.
The idea for play the game is wonderful. The mask adds some mystery to it, but explains nothing. Maybe it isn't even a part of it at all, but that would be an even greater part, if it is used that way for advertising. All the tape with "save the world, play the game" on it reminds me a bit of "police line, do not cross" and it is placed there in a way that makes me wander what may be behind all that stuff, especially because two stripes are in front of the mask. This makes the whole thing look a bit deeper and not flat.
The green eye isn't round. Maybe you need to improve on larger circles like that, because the smaller eyes on the picture next to it are much better. Aside from the shape, the eye looks great. I like how the reflection of light looks like. It isn't just a white spot. The idea of green tears that turn into red as they reach towards the word "madness" is wonderful, because it underlines the madness for the viewer. I don't understand why the tears are green at first, but maybe it just looked better than blue or any other colour.
Together the eye, the tears that change colour, and the words really make me being interested in seeing more about that, because I got a lot of ideas about what could be behind that. Well done!
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Thank you for this lovely and long comment, I'm sorry it took me so long to reply to it. 
As for the title of Elementally Challenged, it was intentional. However, I'm not sure if everyone will be willing to take it at face value, and not as an insult. My only problem is, the other title Elemental Choice, gives away the theme of the story (Does Noah, chose the Elemental he knows or his sister who he doesn't know? and other versions of the philosophical train car-scenario, where you have to choose who to save.) Which title do you think is better, Elementally Challenged or Elemental Choice?
As for the green tears, jealousy or envy is often referred in the phrase "the green eye monster" in English. This colour is futher associated to jealous through the phrase "green with envy". I'm not sure how this connection came about, though it could possibly be because there was an noticeable difference between cheap green dyes and expensive green dyes in the medieval time period. However the symbolic connection came about, I had heard it, and I decided to use it, along with red, especially as it allows me to hide the identity of people/experiences whom I base off of, while also giving me a personal note in the red (I had bright, dyed, red streaks in my hair).
Thank you again for such thoughtful critism.
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It looks like you got a lot of stuff on your hands! It's great to see someone working on their projects for both personal and professional means. You seemed to be very productive with your time and I appreciate your dedication. I wish you best with your projects
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