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ooooohh very nice! i really like the painterly style. great choice of colors, and very cool how you wrapped the skies around them like dresses biggrin

i see what you mean about the contrast... personally it doesn't bother me, but if you want to maintain the same range of values then a few options come to mind:

one would be to reduce the contrast on dusk. particularly the light skin on her torso next to the dark sky is what's creating that more. perhaps lightening the darkest areas of the sky juusttt a bit with some deep blue or indigo, and then toning her skin to match that ambient light color so it looks more incorporated into the environment. i actually like the dawn one a little bit better because it doesn't seem to have that independent light source.

another way would be to add contrast to dawn, using some much darker blues in the upper area of the sky and changing the gradient so that the lighter tones are more biased towards the bottom as you've got it in the dusk one.

or you could do some kind of combination of the two. personally i like the first option better because i really like how dawn is turning out so far.

nice work, keep us posted on your progress biggrin

rice says

very nice ro! i actually love the skin colors chosen for the pieces it really brings them out more, the celestrial hair is well balanced but i think the cloud hair might be a bit too fluffy and big maybe try thinning it out a bit more she looks like my oc shampoo! hahah you know the one with the big afro puff!!

rice says

mad ju don't know my shampoo!? lol its the afro samurai!

Oh, your latest one flows so nicely! I love the shapes you've blocked out; they feel pleasing to the eye.

Heheh, TF2...I know all about that distraction razz

these are lovely rochan whee