Spectacular 2D Entry: Deryk Hopley

[derykhopley]

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my concept, still need a title...
was thinking of a huge battle scene in around the floating city but i think this is just as spectacular

debates...
1:is this spectacular enough??
2:lanscape or potrait, personaly i prefer portrait though my lanscape view seems more balanced...
3: to give her clothes or not to give her clothes. flowing silk like dress or figure hugging armour??
4:lighting, bright sunlight or stary night

[MVDB]

I'd go for no clothes, makes her more strong, cause she don't need an armor.
I guess she has more companions in this fight? Also women? Keep it up! :thumbsup:

[derykhopley]

thanks their will be a couple of other flyers around the city just doing their thing

[derykhopley]

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added a few more flyers they might move around in the final image and i might add more. now its time to start colouring. Decided this will be at night the lighting will be more interesting i think...

[Pawlack]

Hi

debates...
1:is this spectacular enough??
Yes it can be spectacular, make them attacking those bulding, some actions of defense, what do you want ;)
2:lanscape or potrait, personaly i prefer portrait though my lanscape view seems more balanced...
I see you are creating portrait in landscape :D:D
3: to give her clothes or not to give her clothes. flowing silk like dress or figure hugging armour??
NOO CLOTHES :D
4:lighting, bright sunlight or stary night
Sunlight, or night with lot of artificial light

;) Good luck

[derykhopley]

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well iv changed my concept a bit... i like this idea better the two have just been caught out in a storm what will they do???

still need to adjust the lighting on the front chick and colour the back one

[elmasfeo]

nice concept, maybe the storm idea is not very clear, I guess they are small fairies and those are raindrops? ...I think you will need something more in the background....to show the scale, or just to make it more spectacular....I don't know...
The skin tone and her figure are very well done, good job:thumbsup:

Good luck, have fun!

[Zephyri]

Hi, really rather original concept this far in this challenge.. I like the idea, though I think elmasfeo is right about a sense of scale. Maybe you could have some giant leaves in the background, or even an ordinary everyday object like a watering can, there's enough floating cities to last a lifetime in this challenge all ready.

I'd watch the anatomy if you stick with this, I'm no huge expert myself, admittedly, but her legs on the one closest to us look a little rubbery. And maybe have the raindrops not looking quite as much like comets blazing, rain falls with only its own weight propelling it, so it's more likely to look like a distorted raindrop. Other than that, I'd really encourage you to stick with this, with the little tweak here and there, it could be really neat!

[derykhopley]

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trying sugestions from elmasfeo and zepyhri i quite like how its turning out... il going to put more drops and some splashs on the leaves...
question the leaves are from a pic can i use them or do i have to create them myself???

[derykhopley]

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update... i love this background still need to work on it some more but im realy happy with the progress so far...

[xric7]

nice concept.love the pose a lot.:bounce:
cheers.:thumbsup:

[derykhopley]

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well i think im almost finished still need to work on a few areas like the like the back chicks feet and a few touches here and their...

what do other people think any areas i should work on???

[CryingHorn]

Hey this is looking great, I have a crit on the left girl's leg, it looks a bit overwinded, anyway looks interesting, good luck! :thumbsup:

[botched]

I like the image in general, especially the leafy areas of the background. You may want to experiment a bit with the overall color tone. Right now, the image looks a little flat color-wise (specificially the grey tones in the upper left and in the highlights of the hair. Perhaps pushing the whole thing to either the warm or cool side might work for you.

[beelow]

You may want to work out the flesh tones some more to gib\ve it a little more transsparency, Maybe adding some purple and vermilion red to the skin will help, using the purple in the shadow, holla, will check back lata!:thumbsup:

[derykhopley]

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tweaking colours... i think i looks better any comments???

[TheFirstAngel]

The skintone looks much better now. try get yourself good references for hands and feet, they actually need still a bit of work. if you're worried to make changes, simply add a new layer and paint on it, so you can always go back til you have a version that works. since it is raining, you can add hard specular highlights on skin as well as hair, means, 2 highlights, a soft one from regular skin/hair and a glossy one from the water.
judged from their size, your poor fairies better search some shelter or they're risking to get splashed to death... ;)

Keep up the great work, very nice work on the mood and the light yet, once anatomycal issues are nailed down, you're going to have a kick ass piece. keep it up!:thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

[derykhopley]

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Fixed up the hands and a few other anatomycal issues. going to work on the specular highlights now... thanks the1st_angel

[derykhopley]

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Final colouring... critique :)

[derykhopley]

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All Done...

The Story

The sisters myra and Veloise have just been caught unawares in a deadly summer shower will they survive...

[THECLYKE]

very pretty


you should add more like in the concepts i liked those alot...

keep it up man

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