Posts made by djly

I agree with @MichaelaH - there seems to be some dead space at the bottom right but like the composition of the full character on the left.

I love the textures you brought into the piece - from the airiness of the clouds to the harder formations of rocks/mountains. Nicely done!

@thousandwrecks - really nice work and neat to see your thought process.

I was recently looking at Alphonse Mucha's work because of the recent Three Point Perspective episode where Lee White mentions his work. Your work reminded me of a more modern take on his style. Perhaps you could do a more modern ornament around the framed circle using the swans?

Here is an image search of Mucha's work so maybe you can see what I'm talking about: https://www.google.com/search?q=alphonse+mucha&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj3m9zPhLXjAhVN7J4KHZU0DLwQ_AUIESgC&biw=1920&bih=969#imgrc=hNoGYxAawe9STM:

Good luck!

I like the first one for framing but wonder if you might be able to replace the third building from the left with the horizon view of buildings in the second. It might give some nice depth and variety in shapes?

@StudioLooong - love this concept!

My only feedback is the frog steering the ship and the muscle frog are a bit difficult for me to read. Perhaps when you get to tone, this will be more obvious but also wonder if in the line work you might want to bring them further into the foreground.

I hope this helps!

@Squirrel-Size - it was so wonderful to see the development for "The Moment Before" challenge and I'm so excited to hear you are pursuing this project.

The storyboard is unfolding so beautifully. I might wait until the next stage to provide any feedback, but just wanted to let you know how much I love your project.

I love the idea and hope to see the final result!

Thank you for posting this schedule, @ShannonBiondi !! I think it will be a really helpful tool for me to utilize.

I think illustration/art should be treated as any big undertaking or project. If you aren't meeting certain milestones, it's helpful to see where you might be getting hung-up or not progressing as you had hoped/planned. Also, if you plan on going forward professionally, I would imagine it is good practice to get use to meeting different deadlines.

For me, I try to have two dedicated days to just solely focus on tutorials/reading books. The rest is practice, practice, practice. I have also fallen victim to investing to much time in watching and not "doing."

@Heather-Boyd - on my screen the non-night mode seems to be showing the color effectively with the ground a tan color.

I'm sorry, I'm not sure how you'd go about fixing it but did want to let you know that on my screen it seems to be appearing correctly.

So cute! I love this idea and bringing the style to more of a kidlit take on Godzilla.

The two pieces of feedback I have for the piece: 1) I think I might look at the anatomy of your Godzilla a bit firstly giving him a bit more of a neck. Secondly, it sort of looks like his shoulder is coming out of his mouth the way you have it drawn. And so, maybe by giving him more of a neck and shoulder this will help? 2) There seems to be some tangents between the tail of Godzilla and the spiders legs. Maybe you could make a bit more or less overlap so it doesn't look like the legs are just cutting off in the shadow?

I hope this is helpful, good luck!

I love the character and the pose. The line work is looking really nice as well.

I think it was mentioned already, and you mention it in your last post, but I do think having the arm a bit higher would help. It is a bit difficult to read here that he is swiping his mouth. Maybe you could also have a bit of blood dribbling onto his coat?

As far as hair, I like the first as I think it helps with balance composition.

I hope this helps!

@Kasey-Snow - oh I see, that is frustrating! Perhaps someone here with more experience than me on what publishers look for would be helpful. I don't think it is a huge issue but just wanted to provide the feedback.

I'm not sure if you can control any of the html/css coding, but if you can, maybe that would be a route if it something you end up wanting to fix. It seems like this is a fairly straightforward tutorial: https://www.w3schools.com/howto/howto_css_thumbnail.asp

Again, I think it looks fine the way it is but just wanted to put it out there.

@Aleksey - it'll be fun to see your updated version to compare!

@burvantill - hmm, perhaps it is just taking some time to get back. Sometimes emails get buried. You could just follow-up and let her know you were just checking-in and still interested in the project, see if there are any other questions that you could help to answer. If you're still interested, that is...

@Aleksey I love the textures you've created in the comic.

@animatosoor - thanks for the warm words!

@nyrrylcadiz - Yes, it is quite sad that plastic into the ocean is a reasonable transportation method into the ocean. haha, I hope it at least stirs-up some nice ideas for you.

@Kasey-Snow - sorry to just get back to you, sick kiddo! Your site is really coming together nicely, I really like how you changed the mouse-over to a lower opacity. The only other thing I might add is taking another look at the thumbnails and seeing where they cut-off. I know some are not a "square" but maybe you could crop so you are getting the best piece of the image?

For example, on the dragon in the kidlit page (below), perhaps you could focus in on the top portion or head of the dragon, right now we are cutting off on both the tail and the head.

Feel free to take it or leave it, of course! Again, really nice progress.

These are great, thanks for sharing your experience. It looks like you are learning a lot and so interesting to find out more about residency programs, such as these. It would be nice to hear your final thoughts on the program when you're finished! Thanks again!!

@Kasey-Snow - I personally like the subsections. I think it might make it easier for someone to come to your site and looking for a specific genre. I do think for the Portfolio landing page it may help to have all the titles the same size and maybe you could kick back the opacity so that the titles are a bit more legible? Just my 2 cents, I hope it is helpful.

@nyrrylcadiz - I'm really liking how this updated illustration is coming together.

Hmm, as far as other ideas to get her back to the ocean, here are some ideas: 1) maybe she pays to get on one of those duck boat tours; 2) ties her to a plastic bag (plastic always ends up in the ocean ) ; 3) tries to get her a ride on a salmon migrating into the ocean?

No hurt feelings if you don't like any of these ideas but I hope it helps spark an idea. Good luck!