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kinachuku — Hunting for Frogs
Published: 2012-06-25 18:17:11 +0000 UTC; Views: 1927; Favourites: 14; Downloads: 14
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This piece was inspired on Huckleberry Finn and Christopher Robin from Winnie the Pooh.I would like some critique/feedback on the background since I'm not too happy with it c:
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Comments: 37
Your art tells such beautiful and sweet stories!!
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Aqw look at that racoon it is so cute 
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Wow,very moody with children's book style proportions but an impressionist farsight!
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I don't really get what you mean but thanks anyway
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Sorry about that!
I meant that the style and color are in tune with what one sees in children book illustrations but there is like a certain impressionist painting school spirit dwelling inside your piece
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Really great concept, and really creative. Your style is awesome and I love your choices of colours. The way the trees frame the picture and the perspective the road and the shading creates is really nice. Lovely picture!
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It's lovely. loving the background and colouring askdj;asd
but the perspective is off it makes it look more like they're at the end of a hill or something
the whole thing over all makes me think of picture books <33
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Thank you!
I'll try narrowing the hill down if that'll help
And thanks. The feeling of picture books was kind of the thing I was going for!
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I agree with the lack of proper depth with perspective. it just looks odd.
Ways to look into correcting it is look for images of photos where they have this perspective and try to see what you can do differently.
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Okay thanks. Do you think it would help if I changed the colours? Because now the 'further' trees are a lot darker than the trees that stand nearby. Should I change that? Could you explain a little more please?
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the only thing i can point out without finding a photo reference. is the river doesnt change in size as it moves back into the background. Like how your path is consistantly changing your riverbend should change alittle too.
The darkness isn't the problem. Its how you sketched it that makes it the issue. Find a photo that resembles this actually ill help you find one if i can.
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Thank you. I'm going to look for a picture and I'll try narrowing the river down a bit when I'm getting my hands on my drawing program again
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Here is a pathway that matches the size of your child. i think the issue is the size of your child.
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Hmm. The problem is, I can't really make the child and raccoon smaller or bigger since I drew this in Open Canvas. Maybe if I narrow the river down and make the path at the end bend more to the left it'll help... hm.
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It's not a matter of fixing the issues in your piece. It's more a matter of understanding why they are issues and fixing them later. So dont focus on just tweeking something. If you have to redraw the whole thing.
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Do you think I have to redraw the whole thing?
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Only if you want to. If you not satisfied with it. Redraw it.
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I like how its done.
The boy looks a bit brighter than the raccoon
I think how its drawn and the perspective is good, however I think the river should 'narrow' in the distance like the path, but this way is still looks good and is creative.
Overall I think its quite good. Maybe the raccoon is a little to 'soft'
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I really like this! The way you did the boy is great, love the colours you chose, I think the perspective is a little off, I think the vanishing point feels a little to close, other than that lovely work.
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Thank you!
Could you maybe give me some tips on how I should make the vanishing point better?
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no problem, its great work
well, im not entirely sure, it just feels kind of too close...
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It's cute but it lacks the proper depth for your perspective.
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Could you give me advice on how I could create that depth?
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Well lets try and break this down. The focal point of the picture is the boy and the raccoon. Now the boy is being looked at dead on where as the background is a mix of front view on with the trees. The grass, road and stream are being looked at from an angle in the sky. They do not really mesh.
the other part of it which it looks like you did a little of is making things smaller the farther away they are.
funny enough this look is fairly common in old children's books
For more information i would look up tutorials or research in to perspective drawing.
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Do you think it would help if I narrowed the stream down at the end so it fits well with the path?
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That would help for the background but the big thing is settling on where the "camera" is and what does the "camera" see.
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Ah ok. I understand. Thank you!
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