Love the color palette, you've managed to find that balance between harmonizing your character's colors with its environment's and losing it all in a landscape by establishing just enough difference in hues. That said, I feel like the dragonfly has a very clear, defined form while its surroundings remain too soft to exist in the same world. I wouldn't soften the dragonfly necessarily but a bit more contrast and definite edges on your trees' surfaces might unify the composition and really make the whole piece pop.
Esther good job on your environment, i like that you decided to go with more interesting tree shapes. A few thoughts for improvement. I really like what other people have done with the wings of their insects in adding the illusion that they are flapping super fast, it really adds to the energy of the piece. Adding some movement in your dragonfly's wings could help it feel less stagnate. Also the environment looks nice but the scene is a little expected. Sometimes it's helpful to find an interesting cinematic scene and use it as a composition reference.
i'm also loving the environment and those fun trees! i agree with what everyone else has said, and another thought: Right now you have the one spotlight on the ground. usually theres a spatter of light poking through the trees leaves. adding some of that i feel could bring some more believability to your painting.
My thought is more related to drawing than painting. You've gotten better at machines over the semester, but this still feels like you're drawing from a limited imagination. By saying "limited imagination", I m not saying that your imagination has "limits" or saying that you're not creative. You are extremely creative. You create, however, mainly by re-combining the materials inside your head, which are obtained by sketching new things from life, image, or film in your sketchbook. This is educating your imagination, so that it has more material to create with. If you spend time sketching cars in a parking lot, bugs on the internet, or jets in a movie about the Korean war, you begin to own those shapes and ideas, and can use them to create more imaginative designs of your dragonfly, or anything else. This has been called "building your visual library." Here's a link to a tutorial from one of my favorite concept artists about the process:
Love the color palette, you've managed to find that balance between harmonizing your character's colors with its environment's and losing it all in a landscape by establishing just enough difference in hues. That said, I feel like the dragonfly has a very clear, defined form while its surroundings remain too soft to exist in the same world. I wouldn't soften the dragonfly necessarily but a bit more contrast and definite edges on your trees' surfaces might unify the composition and really make the whole piece pop.
ReplyDeleteEsther good job on your environment, i like that you decided to go with more interesting tree shapes. A few thoughts for improvement. I really like what other people have done with the wings of their insects in adding the illusion that they are flapping super fast, it really adds to the energy of the piece. Adding some movement in your dragonfly's wings could help it feel less stagnate. Also the environment looks nice but the scene is a little expected. Sometimes it's helpful to find an interesting cinematic scene and use it as a composition reference.
ReplyDeletei'm also loving the environment and those fun trees! i agree with what everyone else has said, and another thought: Right now you have the one spotlight on the ground. usually theres a spatter of light poking through the trees leaves. adding some of that i feel could bring some more believability to your painting.
ReplyDeleteMy thought is more related to drawing than painting. You've gotten better at machines over the semester, but this still feels like you're drawing from a limited imagination. By saying "limited imagination", I m not saying that your imagination has "limits" or saying that you're not creative. You are extremely creative. You create, however, mainly by re-combining the materials inside your head, which are obtained by sketching new things from life, image, or film in your sketchbook. This is educating your imagination, so that it has more material to create with. If you spend time sketching cars in a parking lot, bugs on the internet, or jets in a movie about the Korean war, you begin to own those shapes and ideas, and can use them to create more imaginative designs of your dragonfly, or anything else. This has been called "building your visual library." Here's a link to a tutorial from one of my favorite concept artists about the process:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnflBERf2zM