Grand Space Opera 2D Entry: Elizabeth Campbell

#79

Hello Elizabeth. About lights and focal points I think like Nathaniel. The girl carries the action in this image so she must be the focal attention point. In your final post, that was the first I saw, I was thinking for a moment it was a giant frog looking at a girl. Then I realize there was something not working there. She is in a clear space and she take all the moon light. The frog in first place must be half in the dark with just some metal flares around and some reflects from the ground. As you said “…we must lose our fear of being wrong” so in this cases I use to take the layers and darken, lighten, contrast it a lot without thinking to much, losing the fear (finally we have the magic undo). There some interesting things should appear. Also the trees behind the girls could be a little more dark close to the ground enphasizing the light in the leaves above.

I like your atmosphere. It has some poetry sense of wonder that you can improve with some adjusts. Your are almost there! Keep going! Good work!

#80

Ok well I darkened up the frogs area and I hope he still doesn’t look like attack of the 20 foot frog anymore. I added larger foliage around him and got rid of the old front leaves (I really hated them) Im finally trying to make the girl look like the focal point now. Ok so I know im learning a lot but I am very frustrated with this thing.

#81

You’re very frustrated with this, and you’ve learned a lot. You might want to put this one aside and use what you’ve learned to do another painting. You’ll feel more refreshed by working on something new rather than frustrating yourself with old problems. Just a suggestion.

#82

So here are two different ones with the foreground dark. Personally I like the lighter one. I need other opinions.

#83

the lighter one looks good to me

#84

Hello there!!
You have made a lot of progress since I peaked last.:thumbsup:
I concur the Blue the lighter is the better version, I think the frog looks great, I just want to know more about the girl, she is the central figure in the piece which leads you deeper in to the work, use her, put some warmth into her skin with some warm colors, everything that you have made in this work seems to be built from the cold hue side using blues, try selecting the hot pinks oranges, and greens, that would in my opinion bring her to life. The leaves are excellent leads into the frame as well.
-D-

I got to get busy my scanner will be here on friday.:bounce:

#85

I will try using some warmer colors. Thanks Impenetrable. Thanks nate

#86

Well this is it. My final coloring has arrived. It’s not perfect but it is far better then what it started off being. Thank you for all who commented on my thread. Everyone was very helpful. I look forward to the next challenge. If you notice problems please still comment. I may still try to fix it but I will be submitting my final one next week.

#87

I took some of the color back out of the girl. I thought there was too much that I put back in. I will be submitting my final on Wednesday. Everyone is so talented in this website and contest. My hopes are that I can step up a notch with my art. This contest was very helpful to me. :slight_smile:

#88

I think the picture looks good overall. The warm color on the leaves in the foreground was a great improvement.

#89

I tried tweaking the color of the girl again but came back to my last submission. I think the girls color is just right. First I added too much color back into her. I prefer last submission were I took most of it back out.

I will be submitting my final on Wednesday so any last minute comment or suggestions are still appreciated.
:bounce: :buttrock: :bounce:

#90

Thanks Mats G.

#91

I think your done blue…:thumbsup:
Looks great the way it is:applause:
Infinity and Beyond…
-D-

#92

Well here it is. My complete Grand Space Opera Theme! Well in all honesty it may not fit as well as I thought it fit the theme when I started it. I don’t expect to place but I wanted to try out this site. I’m a new member since last October when a friend told me about this site. I found the challenge lots of fun and very hard. It’s been a while since I’ve taken on a challenge of this size and where the other artists are so talented. Thank you to those who posted on my thread. I found all of your suggestions to be very helpful. I am walking away from this contest with a great portfolio piece. I hope to see everyone at the next challenge. I think I will also find out more about sketching thread. (Now that I have time!)

#93

Congratulations, Elizabeth! It came out great, and you are fully justified in being proud! Enjoy the rest, and hope we’ll get to see more of your work up on the boards.

-mike

#94

You did a gret job using the critiques you’ve recieved. I love the piece now. I can’t wait to see your next challenge piece, hopefully I can enter that one and try to give you some competition.

:thumbsup:

#95

Ah! I’ve missed out on the past few posts. Sorry I didn’t post anything during the final stages of your work :frowning: It’s been a real pleasure looking at your processes, and it really looks great. That frog is too cool :slight_smile:

Best of luck to you!

#96

Thanks Blind, Thanks YeeWu for all of your helpful comments!:applause:

#97

Well I guess its official. I figured out how to send it using an FTP site. I’m sure they opened there file to where I sent it and said lots of nasty things about all the problems that I made trying to send that file. I had a hard time figuring out how to use my FTP software. I’m surprised they didn’t write me and say something to the effect of me being disqualified due to my stupidity and abuse of their FTP site.

Don’t mid me! I’m just FTP site Retarded :smiley:

#98

Interesting work… The mechanics very is pleasant)