Ye-tea Home WIP

[erinrew]

Looking for feedback on my WIP. Struggling to think of personal articles that will elude to my Yeti’s personality.

[lpetiti]

What sort of personality does your Yeti have?

[Asyas_illos]

Your yetis home looks like it could use a birdhouse or feeder? But it would help to think of a personality for your yeti

[Cayleen]

@erinrew Baking utensils decorating the exterior? Like a whisk door handle or muffin cup planters? Or maybe they have a little tea garden with cutesy labels and tea pot planters?

[Cayleen]

Oh, I see little garden there! Hmm, what about zooming in on the house a bit and having hanging teapot planters around the front door, full of different tea plants?

[erinrew]

He is a gentle soul who likes to bake and drink tea.

@lpetiti

[erinrew]

@Asyas_illos I like this idea. Thank you.

[erinrew]

@Cayleen Love you’re ideas! Thank you for the suggestions.

[erinrew]

Does anyone else get nervous when you start to add color? I need to figure out a process to help me with my color anxiety.

[Asyas_illos]

@erinrew yes! I actually made a comment to @Lee-White on Instagram earlier today about his book mobile, he had one in color and one just in value like sepia colored and I said I needed to do this because I love so many images in value before they even get color I hadn’t even thought to make duplicates keep one in sketch or value and then another in color! Or just duplicate to try different color schemes!

[Jacy13]

@erinrew It's looking great! I'm loving the purple in the sky. It looks peaceful

[erinrew]

@Asyas_illos Good idea... unfortunately I did not do that with this one, but so think I will start.

[erinrew]

@Jacy13 Thank you Jacy. I work on it a little bit at a time to help cope with my nervousness in laying down color. Kind of like dipping your toe in a cold pool.

[erinrew]

This is my latest version. What’s working, what’s not? Thanks in advance.

[ambiirae]

@erinrew I really love the concept and the color of the sky plus the smoke but I feel the wood colors and house colors are too muted. I find I want to look at the sky and smoke more than the house

[Asyas_illos]

I agree with @ambiirae there’s so much contrast in the background I feel like you should bring some of that darkness forward a little

[K.Flagg]

I love the smoke design! I would lighten the background instead of darkening the foreground. If you darken the foreground it will be to saturated I think.

[Asyas_illos]

@K-Flagg oh yah even better

[erinrew]

I lightened the sky a bit. I don’t want to go to light with it, but is this better?

[Asyas_illos]

Yes I think it looks better with that little difference!and I just love the smoke detail, beautiful.