Steampunk Myths and Legends Entry: Mélanie Delon

#21

Lovely work. Melanie! The Lady is coming along quite nicely, no surprise there! :slight_smile: It feels to me like the rest of the background has less of a unified palette than I’m used to seeing in your work. There are so many details, my eyes are skipping around all over the place and not resting on any one thing. It might be effective to bring the colors closer together to settle the piece down a bit. Or perhaps a subtle vignetting effect with the values could help, if you don’t think that’s too cheesy! Anyhow, good luck with the rest! :thumbsup:

#22

I love how this is developing. The early photos look like they are out of focus, yet the main elements are there. And than they sort of refocus as you progress. You could probably animate your progress! Where do the little sad clown robots go in the image? The red lipstick works, it matches with the fabric that is drapped over the chair. And if you changed the color of the red yarn on the floor to a hue closer to that of her lips, I think that would tie in the reds better.

#23

Womball, yes you’re right with the focus, it’s a bit messy at the moment, I’ll fix that :wink:
The little robots will be on the floor, on the left, they will destroy the fabric to make new reel wires :slight_smile:

walrus, yep I’ll keep that in mind, that’s the main problem when you want to do a lot of details :stuck_out_tongue:

I’ll post other steps quite soon :slight_smile:

#24

Well, here is the decorative detail on the piano, the painting is highly inspired by "The Lady of Shalott
" of John Atkinson Grimshaw. It is a kind of tribute to all those great masters, and a way to symbolize her dark future.

#25

I’m starting to work the details, I’ve added more space on the left, not really sure if it’s good or not…
I think, I need to refine the whole thing to see exactly what I want.

#26

wow, the girl is really beautiful, i already loved her :slight_smile: nice touch on the painting and robot!
maybe you can darken the room and give it more focused light from the lamp…its just a suggestion though, coz im sure this image will be very beautiful like your other artwork :slight_smile:

#27

great work Melanie . i think it will be a great piece .
and what about this details ? wow :applause:
good luck for u !

#28

I really love this piece, and look forward to seeing it completed. My one suggestion would be to work on the lighting a bit, perhaps enhancing the shadows in the room and putting a little more light on the Lady. I’d be inclined to finish all the details first, then to play around in Photoshop with subtle gradient overlays to draw the eye to the Lady.

Great work, though, and best of luck in the contest!

#29

haha…clearly he hasn’t seen Melanie’s work. :slight_smile: Looks great Mel!

#30

Hello Melanie, is amazing that you are here. Hope you find the correct composition, I’m just waiting to see the progress of your amazing and subtle work, BTW to learn. Forniture is all Victorian Style, isn’t? :love:

#31

Impressive piece as usual!

#32

Superbe !
there is something of Odilon Redon in the mood of your [i]work.

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#33

m4rxti4n, thank you :slight_smile: For the light yes, the final lighting is not finished :wink:

abourabe, thanks a lot! The whole piece will be detailled this level.

vmulligan, yep, you’re right, I need to push the details a bit more before working on the light :slight_smile:

domoarigato, haha, thanks! =)

davidreyes, well I guess I found it, I’ll post the next steps and the new composition today :wink: The “square format” is not easy to work with, but I’ll try my best :slight_smile: And yes, it is all Victorian, my favorite style =D Thanks a lot!

davidreyes, thank you so much :blush:

visionmaster2, Merci :slight_smile: Regarding Odilon Redon, I don’t know very well that painter (a shame I know), I’ll do some research about him :wink:

#34

I’ve added more elements (again…), texture here and there, and worked on the aquarium.
The doll symbolize her own life, she’s a kind of puppet in a golden cage.

#35

Close up of the doll (which is not finished yet) and the aquarium. I’ve worked it on another file, it was too small to be done on the main one.
As I said, I wanted inside the aquarium the Nautilus, so here it is!

This element is a world inside her world, the nautilus is also trapped in a cage…and we can imagine small people inside the nautilus trapped aswell in a iron cage…

#36

Some posters that will be on the wall. They are about 2 Jules Verne’s books.
The first is “De la terre ? la lune” (From the Earth to the Moon) and the second one is “Cinq semaines en ballon” (Five Weeks in a Balloon)

The whole piece will be full of little details like those.

#37

Hi Melanie!this is so impressive,it’s going to be a masterpiece,other than that,I have nothing to add to this beatifull work,best of luck for you!

#38

Adding more light, and details.

#39

I’ve resized the whole thing, added the little robots and the zeppelins in the background.

#40

amazing work Melanie . i like that little robots
and i cant wait to see the final . keep going :scream: