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bardicsidhe — 'Til I Find Myself Again
Published: 2010-05-12 05:29:32 +0000 UTC; Views: 3002; Favourites: 107; Downloads: 0
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Okay, so this is one 'scenery' piece that got way, way out of hand. While I was sketching one of the ideas the nice folks at the Vale offered me, I got way too involved in the background, which suddenly didn't fit the characters in the foreground, so I dropped the figures into another file to finish later.I'm enchanted by ~Kyomu 's landscapes, and I'm trying to teach myself to use a much more limited color palette to get that really fresh look that's just saturated with light. I want to have picnics in his pictures. If you haven't visited him, you totally should.
Meet Breakwater. Breakwater has amnesia.
Breakwater is constantly losing his keys.
It kind of sucks to be Breakwater right now, really.
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Wow! This is fabulous! I love those clouds and especially that color palate! I'm impressed with your ability to take sharp brushes (at least they look sharp), and still produce smooth gradients and soft textures (clouds)!
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This is really spectacular! The lighting especially is really marvelous. :3
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Thank you so much!
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this is really a cool piece, I really like the pastel color scheme (something that usually tuns me off but is working well here) and Breakwater really pops as the most saturated, dark value element. really a nice thing going on.
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Thank you! I was really inspired by the artist I listed in the notes - somehow they take that light color scheme and make it look like it's vibrant with living light, rather than just washed out. I wanted to try something different, too, and restrict myself with the color palette. I tend to go way overboard in spite of my best attempts to avoid it, and the background ends up looking amateurish or cartoony.
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Wonderful scenery! The clouds and the grass look so amazingly real, one could feel the wind passing over them!
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Rillers wants to ride one of her lovelies bareback there! Pretty!
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That is stunning. Just...wow. I'm so jealous of your ability to create such amazing landscapes and Breakwater looks totally at peace there, regardless of the amnesia.
Gorgeous.
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Wow! That looks beautiful. I can almost feel the wind.
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Absolutely gorgeous, I love the soft greens against the bright blue, and the stunning scenery.
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Thanks so much, *jordanpopz ! I'm glad you like it.
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I agree with the comments above. This is absolutely gorgeous. I cant get over the difference in your style here and the warmth and comfort that the landscape has. It really does look like you could just picnic in the soft grasses, and I love that. I also really like how bright the colors are. They just seem so healthy and green and growing. It's fantastic and I love it. I'm also really taken with the sky, which I think is the strongest thing in the pic, for me at least. I love the clouds and just want to stare at them all day. They have a very 'in your face' quality that I love. Very pronounced and not at all wispy and vague.
One tiny critique that I could think of was to maybe add some shadow from the clouds onto the ground? I know you weren't looking for critique but it's just something I thought of that could really add something to the pic. Even though it looks beautiful as it is!
And ittle bitty Breakwater. He's sho cyoot!
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Like I told Feetz, I get the biggest, biggest grin when I see your comments. You guys make all the work worth it.
I love painting clouds. I like experimenting with different shapes and colors, and when I saw ~Kyomu 's clouds, uh... well... if it's possible to lust after clouds, I totally did. I wanted to learn how to paint like that.
You're right about the shadows. I tried to add them but I didn't hit them right. I think I got gun-shy about making them too dark and quit before they worked. I rarely consider a painting 'done,' since I save PSD files like a total pack-rat, so you bet I'll be digging back through and taking another crack at it.
Thanks again, Bloo!
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Wow, Scy. Wow.
Wow.
Wow.
I can't even think beyond that right now. Just. Wow.
Your backgrounds have always been like eye sex, or candy, but this is just AMAZING.
Good freaking christ woman, I want those clouds. They have to be my absolute FAVORITE part, the sky as a whole I mean is just perfect. I want to live there in that sky, I wish I could fly, and if I could that would be the sort of sky I would want to fly in everyday. I want to lay down in that grass and just stare for hours at that sky.
This Scy, is gorgeous.
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Feetz, I just live for your comments. You and Blue both, you make every bit of effort worth it for the satisfaction of the comments alone. That's exactly what I wanted to accomplish. ~Kyomu 's stuff makes me want to wander in it, from the clouds to the grass and the shadows under the trees. I love stuff that hasn't been over-rendered, where you can still see the brush strokes in it.
Thanks so much, Firefeet!
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Oooo, wow, thank you, Los! It's been a long time since I saw that film. 
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Preeeetttttttyyyyyy.
Seriously. It looks like something out of Studio Ghibli film, and those films are aaaaallll about the scenery porn. Awesome job, Scylla! <3
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aaaaallll about the scenery porn
omg you are so right, Studio Ghibli is.
Thank you, DT!
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I am ridiculously proud of producing lickworthy art.
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no but srrsly. i like what you did there.
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Pretty damn awesome!
Poor Breakwater, I can relate..
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thank you! Do you lose your keys all the time too?
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Yes. In fact, they are missing now..
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Gorgeous. 
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I got so obsessive with the grass. I kept finding excuses to paint more layers. 
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Just wow! I love this pic! I feel like I could just jump right in there merry popins style! The colors are so soft and flowy withot loosing their neissary structure and I believe you nailed the lighting. It remindes me of a greener grassier dances with wolves setting. LOVE IT!
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That feeling of being able to jump into the painting is what drew me to the guy I linked in the artist notes. Thank you so much! Lighting and light reflection are two things I constantly struggle with.
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I wanna have a picnic there, too! We totally should. Especially with the added attraction of random friendly unicorns wandering by to beg an apple.
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Oh my god is this good! I love the green you've used.
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Thank you so much! I admit I sampled some of the greens from the original I was studying, because I wanted to get the light right, and I seem to have trouble with that on my own. My greens are always way too bright. Day-glo grass, lol.
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Awww, thank you, Alo!
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This is...ridiculously gorgeous, breathtaking and inspirational.
I love it! :3
Poor Breakwater...
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You know what? I replied to this comment WAY BACK using my Palm and I am peeved that it didn't stick. Thank you!
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hehehehe XD No problem! :3
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