Nice to meet you. Trying not to quit my dream as life unravels all around.

Doing pet portraits, with real physical paint! It's been so long since I touched a real brush, and it feels mighty good. I also went into a real life art supply store

I would try to identify your light sources, and if they are on-camera light, make sure they are the brightest thing in the scene. I did a quick paint-over of your illustration to show you what I mean, I hope you don't mind:

Are those lanterns lit? I would make them the brightest thing in the scene.

@Nyrryl-Cadiz THanks for the feedback.
What do you think about this pose?

Anyone know where I can find the demo that was referenced in this post?

@deborah-Haagenson said in Our SVS Virtual Studio APRIL 2020:

I recently completed my recreation of the digital painting Will Terry demoed to us in his 3 Day Event a few weeks ago. It was a great learning experiencr to complete this. I feel I now have a process to follow that I feel comfortable with.

Pose #2

Looks great to me. I might think about opening up the grandma's pose to make a stronger silhouette with her right arm, maybe add a bit of overlap between the characters too.

I feel like #3 gets the point across the fastest.

I feel like I'm on the verge of overworking this thing, and also losing my mind. So I'm just putting this out in the world, but does anyone else feel like it's hard to know when you're done?

@Mary-Toth I think the waves look great and the composition is very good. For me, the shading on the ship is not turning with the form quite right. I would have that shadow edge follow the contour of the ship more.

Are those lanterns lit? I would make them the brightest thing in the scene.

Doing pet portraits, with real physical paint! It's been so long since I touched a real brush, and it feels mighty good. I also went into a real life art supply store

To everyone doing pets, what's your process? Digital or traditional? Mailed original or downloadable scans?

@jenithornhill I think the sandbox looks good. you can use those lines as a guide to make the window converge to the same vanishing point.

@jenithornhill the figure and snowman look good. I would check the perspective on the background, mainly the horizon should be around the level of the window, so we should see some land back there above the fence. The window looks a little lacking in perspective too, compared to the sandbox. I dont think we would see the shadow of the fence since the light is from above. All easy stuff to fix.

Nice to meet you. Trying not to quit my dream as life unravels all around.

Thank you all for the feedback. I'm pretty happy with the finish.

@Griffin if the background lacks intertest, seems like the easiest thing to do would be to the add something interesting back there. Personally, I like the balance of the composition and didn't want to make a static, centered comp.

I'm a little keen on 2 because foreshortening.