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Published: 2005-06-03 19:14:41 +0000 UTC; Views: 1240; Favourites: 7; Downloads: 7
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**edit**Combining older works in my gallery to save some space. Plus this one looked better together to show the characters' complete oppositeness ... Is that a word?!These are the final images for the "Gold-Tree & Silver-Tree" story. The drawings were based on Aubrey Beardsley's Art Nouveau style ... then I got stuck on how to make it look modern. The tutor simply suggested changing the black to grey.
Never thought of that
So I did ... and that led me to the dark red because, frankly, I think grey and dark red look quite stylish together ... or very '80s. Either way, I came up with this and quite liked the effect. Hopefully it still looks a little dark (as in creepy). The idea is that these illustrations may start off being influenced by Art Nouveau, but they develop to become something more contemporary.
And yes, before you say it, I have fallen in love with gradient shading
So sue me.
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Nah - it's just old. And I was in college, so it was all about the experimentalism. Plus I was trying to go all Art Nouveau.
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Stumbling is good
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nice one! grey! although i feel like the red at the bottom of her skirt is too dark, it's drawing away all the attention from her top half...
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Hmmmm, you may be right. Ooops. Ah well, they're up for a re-vamp as we speak
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I like the actual picture but(I bet you knew this was coming!) I'm not keen on the colours. Sorry!
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Grr. Yes, there's great division over this colour scheme; some like it, some hate it. It's a bit like Marmite
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Reminds me of the style of animation in Disney's Hercules.
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OHH I love what you've done here 
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I really like the colour scheme you've got going on here, very interesting indeed. The linework seems quite traditonal, but the colour modern. I like the fusion very much, oddly so perhaps. The way the red in particular fades as it goes north is very nice, as well as the flowers in her hands. I like it.
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Thank you - I like the colours, too, but I now think that it works best in this image (red on grey) rather than the others (grey on red). Grr. This is not the time to change, what with only a week left until the deadline, but it has to be done, or I'll never sleep ...
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I really like this one, very reminiscent of the illustrations in your modern fairy tale book. If I saw this in a book Id be impressed
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Ah, cool, well that's the idea
(I really like this one, too ... I think the red on grey background works better than grey on red. Maybe I need to change a few things ... again 
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Yeah you'll soon get bored and play Guild Wars...oh wait that's me...
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lol... and i just commented how i hate the combination. that makes me un-stylish, dated, and tactless at the same time! 
ah, i knew i should've sticked to "i like your drawings"
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Criticism is good, mate - it encourages me to try different approaches. But 2I like your drawing" will do just as well
I think I know what the problem is with the colour scheme: it looks good with red on a grey background (like this), but grey on a red background looks awful. So changes must be made ... damnit.
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