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Published: 2011-07-16 14:24:38 +0000 UTC; Views: 2000; Favourites: 97; Downloads: 7
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Is it done?Obviously, not. I still need to hide the lines that are showing over the fire / water. I'm talking about the background in collaboration with the characters.
ANY advice is awesome. Please and thank you!
I know there's a whitish line on the edge of the rocks, that will be fixed next update. As will the lines and everything else unless I scrap this background and do a new one.
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o.o I can't wait to see the finished product. ^^
I think you should have highlights in the background and over Zuko and Katara - like star and moonlight. 
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That is a good point. I hadn't thought too much about the moon or anything :3
I think that would be a plan. Thanks~
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Yaaaay I had a good idea. ^^ No problem.
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I wouldn't stick with the cliff in the background personally, the colours are too close to that of the fire and greatly reduce the impact that could be created through contrast. The brown on the ground was a great choice, since it offsets the blue nicely, but perhaps choose a more distant forest look for the top half of the picture, using dark greens and purples to draw more attention towards the vibrant orange. I suggest making the grass go up till about 1/3 of the piece, adding some depth by making the blades smaller the higher they go and a little less defined near the edge of the woods. Making the background darker around the center would also help definition,
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Excellent. xD I will try something along those lines, originally I had the cliff in mind, but it doesn't hurt to try a couple other things.
Thanks. :3
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Firstly you can set your art when you publish it, asking for critiques.. That way people who see it can do so.
Secondly my advice would probably have helped you earlier on, but I didn't think about it until I saw this one.
Their poses needs a bit of work 
Just personal opinion.
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xD I've posted five of them now. I'm more looking for the background, not the people. Thanks, though!
Zuko is difficult to draw. Katara is easy enough, and I wanted her arms to be spread as they are.
And I know I can - I just don't feel like it.
I'm not changing the poses.
I've been working on drawing the both of them more. He is more difficult, but for some reason I start with her first. I think I'll have to start with him first next drawing.
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Which is why I said it would have been more useful for your irst post. I can't really say anything about the background though, because I'm not very good with backgrounds myself.
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It's more of a firmer contrast between them than anything else. I don't need an example, thanks. ^.^""
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Something more like this.
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Oh my gosh, this is getting more and more amazing every time I see it!
I can't wait for the finished product!
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Any tips for me? I need to figure something out for the background. Maybe firmer lines? I fail at backgrounds xD
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Ah, I fail at backgrounds too. xDD
Actually, doing a bit of smudging and blurring on the background can help bring the crispness of the characters forward. xD and it gives us artists an excuse to be lazy.
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xD
Horray for laziness.
For sure I need to get rid of that white line on the edge of the cliff side, maybe sharpen it and do it all myself. I like the high-contrast look. This piece has been a huge challenge for me and my usual style :3
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Yesss, laziness is good for the soul. :3
A little idea on my part (but don't take me seriously, I'm an anime artist and therefore my backgrounding advice is obsolete), maybe if you used photoshop's "replace color" option coupled with the selection tool, then you could fade the white line to an orangey line to help bring out the cliff face against the forest...
...but maybe it wouldn't look right. After all, I'm a terrible background painter. xD
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I don't really know too much about various special colouring techniques. I've only recently started working with the burn and dodge tool, and using textures a little more too.
Though I don't think that would work, seeing as it's a texture overtop of the cliff, to then I burnt and dodged the colours until it turned into that.
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Haha, I never use fancy tools. Just my brush presets and my tablet, sometimes the smudge tool. P: Maybe that's why I suck at backgrounding. xD
Personally, I recommend avoiding the burn and dodge tools because they give a lot less breathing room to work with color schemes...
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This is actually the only time I used it. xD It was mostly because it worked for the contrast look. Lots of layering and opacity adjusting.
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Thanks! Any advice is cool too :3
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Hmm...I don't see anything really wrong with it. The only suggestion would be to make the fire a little blurry? Just a bit...but even just like this, the picture's awesome!
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How pretty!
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