Before I get to where I am now. I'm going to outline how this painting has progressed oer the week. And yeah, I can be brutal to myself.
So, I start out with a blank canvas, a photo to refrence the figure off of, too much time over break, and the ability to paint until 2AM every day.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v238/DaElf/KaikAi1copy.jpgThat's where I was after 5 hours of work. That is not real great, and there's a ton of problems off hand- too many to complain about here. They're obvious enough, to anyone. The forest is horrible, the water is too chunky, the figure undeveloped. So yeah. more work.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v238/DaElf/kaikai2copy.jpg3 more hours of work. Forest looks much much better, if not a bit cartoony, but hey, if I wanted photo quality, I would have left the photo as is. My main complaint was that I over did the dress, making the entire figure looking chunky, posed, and very plastic. It also looks sickenly flat, which doesn't fit against the depth created by the foreset behind it.
There's a few odd things going on in the forest that I don't exactly like. In the left corner, there's a little impossible space where a tree far behind the one near the water comes up in front. It might not be that big of an issues, but it hinders the trees from realating, and it makes the leaves look flat, and one dimensional. There's also some weird bright orange reflected in the water that I do not like.
So, back to work!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v238/DaElf/kaikai3copy.jpg3 and a half more hours, and it appears that there isn't much difference. but it's the small things that make painting finished that seem to finaly come together. The figure is no
completly longer flat(Cold use some cooler colors on the far side to reenforce the motion), and the dress has regained the motion. I worked some of the facial fetures, finaly making the form work.
But there still are things that undouptedly annoy me. The shadows of her skin are sickenly purple, making it look bruised, and definatly NOT healthy. Her facial features are still not completly defined, save for the eye sockets, which fall under the purple skin problem. Oh, and her foot is too small. Oh, and her hair looks stiff and mis colored... It's just gross.
Now, the ground she is on annoys me. The way it is painted doesn't hold up against the extremly bold way that I have painted everything else. The streaky, brushed out paint falls shrt of bringing the attension to the front, no mater what bold colors I use. Granted, the forest is extremly interesting, and even though I know I might had to repaint it, I don't want too. I'm sure I can find some way to make the forground hold up against it.
This is where I am now. Fighthing with painting blonde hair, skin tone shadows, and flat foreground space. I'm probably going to start painting later tonight, and I'd really like some idea of where to go from here, and some hints on how to add those finishing touches. Keep in mind, even though it might be obvious, I don't want an anime figure(But I'm perfectly aware of some minor anotomical problems), and I haven't used black in over a year. I'm not allowed(Painting teacher took it away).
So Anyone have any suggestions on where to go from here? This is the last week of winter break, and I have some friends expecting to see something awsome when we come back to school.
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