March contest! Dungeons and Dragons Rascals

Kevin Longueil

@Braden-Hallett Your work is so goood! Not sure if you are looking for feedback or not? for me your first version of the older lady was perfection...her expression and form seemed really perfect to me...especially her expression. New one is great too of course - just sharing the thought - feel free to ignore.

braden H

@Kevin-Longueil said in March contest! Dungeons and Dragons Rascals:

for me your first version of the older lady was perfection...her expression and form seemed really perfect to me...especially her expression

I've been thinking the EXACT SAME THING! Sometimes I get it perfect in the study stage with a few nice little blobby shapes and I lose it once I start to sharpen things up with line.

She needs a makeover for sure. Thanks for the feedback. I am ALWAYS looking for feedback

jdubz

Sometimes I get it perfect in the study stage with a few nice little blobby shapes and I lose it once I start to sharpen things up with line.

Ugh the struggle is real. I feel like that's one of my major frustrations right now. Trying to bring back the organic quality of
the blobby/sketchy/scribbles once you begin finishing has been a real bear to tackle on the regular.

jaepereira

How big are you working @Braden-Hallett ? Are the judges getting lenient on the square image shape requirement?

braden H

@jaepereira said in March contest! Dungeons and Dragons Rascals:

How big are you working @Braden-Hallett ? Are the judges getting lenient on the square image shape requirement?

I'm working on an 8x10. I think the only requirement (other than the poses) is that the file be under 500KB. I don't remember anything about requiring a square aspect ratio

braden H

Slooooooowly gettin' there. I'm gonna try and get it finished today. This has turned into a slowvember kinda thing!

HeatherBouteneff

Love this! Trying to decide what I want more, strudel or a battle llama!!

K.Flagg

This is really awesome. I wasn’t sure about how much storytelling you could do without it really taking away from the character design but you did it so well. Nice work!

braden H

@HeatherBouteneff said in March contest! Dungeons and Dragons Rascals:

Love this! Trying to decide what I want more, strudel or a battle llama!!

You want the strudel. Trust me, lol

braden H

@K-Flagg said in March contest! Dungeons and Dragons Rascals:

This is really awesome. I wasn’t sure about how much storytelling you could do without it really taking away from the character design but you did it so well. Nice work!

Thanks! I think the rest of the random doodles fade back nicely

braden H

I'm gonna put it away for a bit now!

ValD

just wow. It looks like Sammy is so ready for the adventure ! When's the book?!

erinrew

@Braden-Hallett This is amazing!

APHOTICMOTH

Copy pasted the before and after into PS, that way I could really see all the little changes. Every change added so much more depth. Even adding more love the distant background. I really like the addition of the little balls/tassels on the old ladies shawl.

braden H

@ValD said in March contest! Dungeons and Dragons Rascals:

When's the book

Knowing me? Probably never, lol

braden H

@CLCanadyArts said in March contest! Dungeons and Dragons Rascals:

Copy pasted the before and after into PS, that way I could really see all the little changes.

I really do make small incremental changes at this point! I suppose they'd be hard to tell apart without looking at them side by side sometimes

APHOTICMOTH

@Braden-Hallett I could see a lot of the changes, but I love flipping layers on and off to really compare it. I love works in progress, and seeing how they evolve. I wonder if we can post GIFs on the forum, I've never tried. Would be neat to put all the iterations into a gif.

braden H

@CLCanadyArts said in March contest! Dungeons and Dragons Rascals:

Would be neat to put all the iterations into a gif.

That sounds like woooooooork It WOULD be kinda cool to see, though! I may look into it!

APHOTICMOTH

@Braden-Hallett Kind of. In Photoshop if you open a bunch of individual files, you can go to file > scripts > load files into stack. From there click "Add open files" Every file that is open in a separate window will appear there. There is a box on the bottom that you can click for it to automatically try to line things up, or leave it unselected. Click ok, and every file will be loaded into a new single image in separate layers. From there you can make a timelne, and use the layers as the frames.Making simple gifs like that goes really quick when you get the hang of it.

braden H

I got some nice critiques about the colour (yellow blue and red primary palette is HARD to pull off). What do you think of this for colours (I may tweak still!) I think it's less contrasty in a good way