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Published: 2009-07-21 08:45:56 +0000 UTC; Views: 1112; Favourites: 20; Downloads: 0
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Better seen from far away. Stand about three or more feet away from the computer and it'll look a lot better.So this is also for my final project. In this I wanted to focus more on textures and creating a more storybook type of feel, hence the bright colors and whimsical feel.
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Absolutely love it! The fish is just too cute and big and awkward not to love!
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this weird enough has to be one of my fav pics from you
idk why, its just so adorable and creative i love it
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You know for years I'd heard the expression "Big fish in a little pond" but never expected to see it put into practice. I'll admit... when I saw the sketch of this one I laughed, now... I'm still laughing. My only advice is that the fish's skin texture seems a little busy or perhaps overexposed and so it looks a little cut and pasted into the scene. I think I'd agree with some of the other comments that tightening up the sky may help out a bit. Otherwise I think this is looking great.
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Yeah, I was completely rushed to finish this for my class, so when if came time to do color I said, "Screw it, Let's make it look like a cheap children's book illustration." And there we have the results. I definitely plan on going back, scrapping all the color and doing something comepletely new and better than this.
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Sometimes its nice to just go back to something we've already done once and redo it on our own time. I know these days I'm doing a lot of repaints that haven't found their way onto DA yet and I wonder if they will. Just hang in there and the storm will die down before you know it.
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i dunno i haveto disagree, i like the little childrens book thing u got going on
and i love the busy texture of the fishes skin
it looks natural to me
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Hee. He's got a 'what are you looking at?' thing going. They eye reminds me of a bubble or a water droplet.
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At the college campus I am going to there is a little duck pond and in it is a koi fish so large that his back and tail find stick out of the shallow water as he swims around. Its cool to see but at the same time you wish he had more space.
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The only thing that somewhat ruins the otherwise incredible illustration, is the way the eye and the sky were painted. Try polishing those two a bit more and you won't have to say "Better seen from far away. Stand about three or more feet away from the computer and it'll look a lot better." anymore
Loving the textures and choice of colors...
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lol, I wasn't saying look at it from far away because of that. It was just something I noticed while I was painting. But yes, I do plan on reworking this piece, this is just what I had done for my class this past morning.
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It's true it looks better from away... but I wanted to pick on that line 
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Soooo Cute! i love that fish! this may sound weird but i especially like the eye that is furthest from the viewer.
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lol, it's not weird. I like that eye too :3
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At first I thought there's a huge fish on ground but it has a pond where to swim. Anyway, this is a great work. The size contrasts are very fascinating but I'm not sure would there be a need for more contrast on shapes. Shapes are very harmonic, only round shapes, but actually It maybe good thing to create more storybook type of feeling.
You can add the picture smaller if you want it looked at farther away.
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Well, I didn't want the water to be an obvious blue-green color, and I wanted the fish to pop off the page, which is why there's a huge shadow on one side and everything else is a warm color while he is blue.
And I didn't make the picture smaller because I wanted the texture to be visible. I just noticed as I was working on it that everything pulls together really well when you look at it from far away. Which works out great since it's meant for a presentation where the closest person will be sitting about 3ft away from it.
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This is digital medium and then it's very hard to talk about feets. People see this in differen sizes but the same is pixels. I've had troubles with small details because the picture needs a lot pixels to show them and then the picture become too large to fit on screen with browser for everyone.
The color of bond is great. It fits to the landscape but there's a trouble in you pop off effect because the blue color is deep and then the fish come further and your warm landscape come closer. It's differently than you wanted to be. I hope you notice that. Another detail where's also a problem in depth Is the eye. It's too bright to be a part of the fish. It looks more like a snail on your screen.
All the ways to fix this error would change this too much to keep the orginal idea but I can tell a couple of ways. One would be that you'd color the background more blue and gray, and you'd remove some of outlines. In that case the fish should be warmer and include more outlines than it's background. Another way to fix would be a silhouette fish. So, the light would come stronger from behind, and the fish would be colored only from transparent areas.
Note that pictures are never perfect
Anyway, that's not very bad thing the fish looks like a tunnel because you've used complimentary colors and all the shapes are drawn excellent. The composition is great. So, the entirety is fascinating
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Well it's going to be printed out 5" by 7", so the whole pixel thing will not be a problem. It was originally 300+ dpi and I downsized it for the internet.
about the colors, I wanted the fish eye to come out more than the body as the focal point, which is why the eye has a smooth texture and the colors are more saturated and why the shadows of the body are as dark as they are so that they eye will go to the area of highest contrast, and it's not that bright when looking at it the way you would when it's presented. I've tested it, it's works. Also, fish eyes are very bright until they're dead and I wanted my fish to seem lively despite the fact that he's stuck in a pond too small for him.
And yes, I do know that pictures are never perfect. I would've given up the whole art thing years ago if I thought every piece I did was supposed to be perfect.
Thanks for the critique :3
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