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xKzan — The Lighthouse
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Published: 2019-04-27 18:43:09 +0000 UTC; Views: 1027; Favourites: 90; Downloads: 1
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This piece was inspired by the novel To The Lighthouse by Virginia Wolf. I tried to depict the feelings of the character James Ramsey, who in the narrative wanted to visit the lighthouse. Since this visit was the main motivating wich moves the whole plot of the novel, I chose this scene to represent in a literature club which I participated in and should illustrate something that represented the story..
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Hi!
Just a quick pointer, I disagree with the previous statements that it is too bright for a night scene. What will tell the viewer this is a night scene is the temperature of the colors chosen. See how you chose brown for dirt or cute orange/pink for hair? That choice of color is too warm, you need to find the cool counterpart, usually it is just plain old blue or moving towards blue on the color wheel.
One other suggestion is more compositional - when we see a functioning lighthouse, we tend to follow the beam of light with our eyes and the current direction is leading the eye away from the image and outside of the canvas. Pointing it towards the character could be better in terms of focal point.
Other than that, I love the mood of this image and the emotion behind it!
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First, thanks for the compliments, I'm really happy you like it~
Also, thanks for taking time to help me with this piece. Currently I'm studying some theory and I can pretty much see some of color mistakes you pointed out more clearly now. Regarding the composition, what you said is something new to me and indeed is helpful once I can see some mistakes I couldn't before. I'll try to focus on what you ponted out and improve even more.
To finish, the corrected version you did is reeeeeeally amazing! Omg, I could not imagine this piece so cool like that~ See something like this is truly motivational to improve more and more.
Thank you so much for the help<3
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its like minimalistic yet detailed at the same time, nice
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This is nice! I think you've managed to convey mood, while still keeping things clean and simple. As Meekochan said before me, I think the piece is too bright for a night scene. Something I might've done is to add a light source in the foreground - for example a lantern on the rock. Doing this would enable you to really go heavy on your shading and contrast without worrying about losing visibility. Doing so would also enable you to create some nice colour contrast between a warm lantern light and the colder lighthouse light/moonlight.
Hopefully this was helpful for you. You're definitely on the right track, so just keep practicing and use plenty of references which encapsulate moods you want to convey in your pieces. Good work, and keep on creating <3
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Sorry for the late reply, time is like my worst enemy right now. Thanks for taking your time to check my gallery and to help me to improve too. I can see your idea with the lantern would create much better result T-T, maybe in the future I could try to re-do that or at least draw something similar to it. Of course your advice was helpful and also thank your for the compliments, it really help with my mindset to improve step by step.
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Hello fellow improvement club member! *waves*
Quick observation: The lighting looks too bright overall for what I'm assuming is nighttime with only the moon and lighthouse as light sources. But if it were very accurate, visibility goes way way waaaaaaaaaaaaaay down. Unfortunately I don't have much experience with this kind of situation so no concrete advice comes to mind. In the meantime, try taking a look at other similar light settings (photo refs or illustrations from other artists) and see if there are any patterns you notice.
Or, since your intention is on creating a deeper mood, up the contrast between dark area and light spot, whether they make logical sense or not. For example, maybe make the background mostly very dark but have key elements be very visible (with some unexplained lighting. I don't know...I'm just thinking of photo shoots and films where the camera crew has a bunch of lights and mirrors everywhere for what I assume is visibility sake.)
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Sorry for the late reply. Thank you so much for taking your time to help me with this one. I'll keep in mind your advices and look for some references to understan how a scene like this would be more accurated portrayed. My notionsof shadow and light are a little bit simplistic right now, although I am really wanting to improve on that subject. Maybe in the future I will draw a similar scene in order to try to apply what you pointed out and see if it improve at least a bit. Again, thank you so much for the help!
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to Improvement-Club please, give me a critique about darkness and light in scenes like this, where the light source is few in order to create a deeper mood. Thanks in advance.
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