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Published: 2018-08-05 21:51:10 +0000 UTC; Views: 2567; Favourites: 218; Downloads: 23
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Back from the dead, huh? Yeah right... Well, recently I redirected my main focus into 3d modeling and a bit of concept art so illustration had to step down. Ofc that doesn't mean that I will stop doing it at all. I like it too much to stop. Just need more time... :>
ANYWAY, here's the Druid. With dedication to Dyrli-Du~
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Hello I'm here from PROJECT COMMENT! to give some hopefully meaningful critique on your piece.
Alright lets get started.Β
First I love the concept and stoy you have going in this piece great work.
You need to work on your shadows, I see a couple of problems. One is that you only shade using black, while black is fine here or there, you really want to be shading using a very dark color, something in the 2-3% range. while this may not seem like a big difference, using that color will add a vibrancy, a feeling of life, that you just can't get with only black shadows. When chosing what color to use, I recommend either the color used for ambient light, or in cases like skin the color of the subsurface scattering of the object. Your other issue with shadows seems to be a complete lack of cast shadows. These are an important tool one should be using to help control the values in the piece.
And that leads into the next thing, your values seem out of control. From a value mentality, you don't really seperate the foreground from the mid ground, or the mid ground from the background. Rather it just feels like a smooth fall off of light starting at the rock her hand is on to the pond behind her. Rather what you should be doing is using clear siluettes to seperate each part and give the piece depth. For example the staff she is holding has a very good siluette on the back side. it is noticably darker then the pon and has a clear edge, however the front of the staff almost completely loses its edge so it merges with the background and you lose depth you could have had. You have a very similar issue on her pauldrons, in both cases the pauldron is almost the exact same in value as the background so it is hard to tell how far sepearted they are from their background. On her right side I would darken the pauldron and lighten the rock some in overall value and you will quickly see the two seperate from each other and the piece start to have more depth. Getting to the hand holding the staff darken it a bit, once againt he value is too close to the value of the back ground.
SOmething I notice a lot with your shadows is you have no shadow edge, it just kinda falls off slowly. You need to more clearly define what is and isn't in light, there should be a bit of an edge between what is in shadow and what isn't, umm IDK if I can make what I'm saying here super clear without a picture, so i'll link a video that will hopefully help.Β www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcCJ2Cβ¦
So yeah overall looking really good, but a bit of a better understanding of value control and careful use of shadows could push your painting to the next level.
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Very thoughtfulΒ and complex critique. You're right I messed up the values pretty badly and I definitely need to work on them. And yeah, I've been watching Marco Bucci for some time now but I guess I need to rewatch some of his videos at least few times ^^
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Glad you found it useful.
Marco Bucci has a ton of great advice.
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very beautiful work. I love all the details and colors.Β
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Wow, really nice piece this one! This brings me lots of reminds from my warcraft times, having a druid that reminds me a Lot to this one. I would say that the most i love from the image is that peacefull aura that you puf on it, giving the drawing an special final result. Magical!
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I'm glad that you got that feeling out of it. It means that my goal with this piece was accomplishedΒ
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Reminds me a little of that one guy from Overlord.
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The elf guy. i think his name was Oberon.
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Oh, I thought you meant the anime. NeverΒ played the game, so I wouldnt know
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Ooooh, I really like this piece! The athmosphere is really calm and soft, exactly the type of lighting in which I could fall asleep, tbh. I love the details of the plants the most: All the leaves and vines, even when they're not detailed they add a lot. I strive to include my characters in backgrounds like these someday
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Thank you for kind words 
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Haha, will do! You only get better by practicing
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Who knows what is she dreaming about...
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