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Published: 2018-11-23 10:56:13 +0000 UTC; Views: 244; Favourites: 18; Downloads: 0
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So...this happened and I'm diving into an other crazy long painting...sorry guys. lol. Any feedback would be awesome - this is the stage where it won't kill me too much to change everything ;DThanks for all the feedback everyone has already given!!!Β
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The hands are looking really small for the body? But the face looks great!
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Thanks, god I always do that! lol..thanks for the help
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Of course! 
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Cool !Β welcome back, and nice to have you back
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Trying to stay here. Ugh. I keep hoping things will calm down and I can come back to posting on here like I used to and it just keeps not happening. -.- One day, maybe.
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Maybe try keeping a schedule? like once a week?
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Things have just been so crazy and unpredictable between my different work schedules that it's made it impossible to be reliable. I was trying to do Wednesdays but things kept coming up, then Fridays or Saturdays during the day but then I had other things to do . . . IDK. Things just seem to come in waves for me, hoping things will settle down, now.
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Oh I know what you mean, I've been really good with DA for a while but last few days i've been completely absent!
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Yeah, I go back and forth. I'm not working as hard, now, so I'm trying to ease back into it some. It's hard.
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What I've been trying is, stop caring about numbers!! lol...thats also hard
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lol Since it's for my business I kinda have to care . . . ugh. But I've kinda resigned myself to the idea that I'm never going to get commissions from the internet.
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I'm trying to make it as one as well but I think concentrating on the art is more productive for me, I don't know where to start with the social media worldΒ - it's hard to get started!Β
Have you tried doing different series? like a set of 5 or so of different themes ? Just an idea
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I hear that. Expanding social media is hard, honestly. Some sites make it easier than others but they all kinda suck in some way. <<
And yeah, I've done stuff like that. Different subjects, too. It's my prices. It is what it is. lol
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I think the main thing is the effort that goes in to it, I'm just going to stick with DA and instagram for the moment. Twitter and YT are just when I feel like it.Β
Yeah I hear you. Would you do something like a book?
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True. It's deceptive how much time and work actually goes into it. lol
Perhaps, though I don't have enough content that I'd want to put in it. It'd be something I did down the road, definitely. Would you do one?
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Absolutely!Β
Oh yes, I really want to make a book. I'm working on one but not making any progress as I suck at writing.Β
But you have lots of art, it could be an art book? with like tutorials or tips etc
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Oh, I thought you meant an art book. lol I've actually written 2 novels, though I haven't spent a lot of time trying to get them out there, though I've wanted to. Nothing about my art, though.
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omg thats amazing! Why not combine your talents?
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I've done some art of the characters before so I've tried but yeah. lol I need to go back to both of them to edit but I haven't had time. One was for my husband, the other I wrote as part of a series but they both need more work, I think.
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So cool that you write as well. all the best!
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Looking good. The shadow balance looks strange but I assume that it's not intended to be final. I get a warm fuzzy feeling from looking at this because you honestly get the feeling that she is surrounded by lots of trees rather than having just a couple placed here and there to create an illusion of a forest. Also maybe it would make more sense if more of the side of the rose was showing, considering the angle. Currently, it looks like it's mainly facing the viewer head on, and that's unlikely given the orientation of the branch.
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oh so good, that's what i was trying to do - make the environment really more integrated with her, unlike my last "Forest Guardian"...I think there will be many of these.Β
The roses and branches on the whole are just stand ins - not staying like that at all. Both sides will have leaves and flowers, buds etc...but yeah that one that is there looks so weird because not only has the whole painting besides it been warped and resized all over but also it's totally not the same style - it looks like old school tattoo art XD
I was hoping the lighting would be more direct in this one, that you can tell where it's coming from - I mean I'm ttrying ..But yes, nothing is finished here
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Wow, the whole concept of a stand-in is so alien to me! I generally sketch everything in detail and then paint them in according to the outlines set by the sketch, very rarely deviating from what was in the sketch. So the whole concept of drawing a placeholder that basically says "I want a flower here but I'll figure out the specifics later" is something quite mind-blowing from my perspective. Maybe I should try that sometime. It might well be that you are not going to know the orientation of small pieces before you have figured out the orientation of the big pieces first, so it might be hard to figure out the orientation of every single small detail when working with a sketch.
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oh it's very, very useful to use stand ins. It gives you composition planning etc...and saves time.Β
That is exactly why I use it
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I need to learn to do that as well. Recently I've started getting paid work as a graphic designer and it often involves having to combine a photo of a person with some food-related photo from pixabay that matches the color scheme of the person's clothing and doesn't go against the rules of the diet she's pitching. I've learned to turn the topmost picture into a smart object, then turn it half-transparent, after which I can scale and rotate it as much as I like without damaging the quality of it. This allows me to find a crop and orientation that plays along with the other photo, after which I use a layer mask to reveal the key parts of the image beneath. Using the transparency trick allows me to check how the images are "playing along" and if I can't find an effective crop or rotation, I'll discard the food picture and search for another one that works better. It's much easier to work with pre-existing materials rather than having to paint everything from scratch and having to deal with infinite possibilities. The results are often visually very appealing, even though they are much faster to produce than hand-drawn things. I think the same idea could be applied to painting too by putting elements on different layers, then scaling and rotating them until you find something that clicks. I can generally recognize when something is visually effective but I might not know what to try straight off the bat.
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Sorry for the late reply!Β
Oh congrats!!Β
yes, I'm familiar with that process with using opacity and masks it's soooo useful! I've used it with photos as well. But it does work really well with paintings!Β - but again, I only use it super rarely
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