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SilSinn9821 [2019-06-22 05:13:00 +0000 UTC]

Hello again from ProjectComment , this time for this Big Comment Contest idea. Usually, we reserve this natural pattern to snowflakes. But here I see you are applying the concept to something very really different: fire. I am not sure how to dub this: Flameflake? Fireflake? Heatflake? I leave it to you to coin up a proper term for this kind of visual treat. Which, by the way, also resembles a flower. Maybe it resembles more a flower than a flake. A fire flower, to be precise. Maybe this is how a real-life fire flower should look like in a real-life Mushroom Kingdom. Not that fancy, cartoonish render as found on those Nintendo games – this one is the real deal!

Alright, enough expository banter and let’s go to the real details that matter: symmetry and colors. The flower (ehem, flake) itself is unquestionably symmetrical across all twelve axes of symmetry: the six axes centered along the six “molten dendrites” (which look like glowing bushes to me) and the six axes centered along the six “scorching petals” sandwiched between pairs of dendrites. The brown trunks growing beneath the dendrites & petals also follow a synchronized symmetry, although in this case it is hard to envision the symmetry because of the square frame surrounding the fire flower ahem flake, which makes some trunks look longer than others (had you chosen instead a round or hexagonal frame, then their symmetry would be more apparent). The symmetry that graced this flower/​flake and its trunks, however, slightly falls apart when it comes to the glowing embers swirling around the flake/​flower in a counter-clockwise sense: some of the embers are slightly shifted in position relative to the trunks, the dendrites, and/or the petals. The stark differences in the “sparks” are more apparent near the tips of the dendrites, on the thickest trunks emanating from the petals, and between each dendrite & its enighboring petal. This is where you had to be somewhat more careful, unless you intentionally threw in an “invisible wind current” to mess up with the sparks/​embers’ overall coordination.

As for colors: that fiery orange is surely the opposite of the blues that dominate standard snowflakes. The various continuous shades of red, orange, & yellow that you will find in a typical wildfire, a matchflame, the coils inside a broiling oven, etc./など/usw. are present here to tell us that this thing is seriously burning with feelings of natural “fury” (yes, wildfires get really angry & furious: fire & fury could be a subtle subtitle here). Glowing orange & yellow on the “molten dendrites”, and red/​orange/​yellow on those petals (which also resemble some kind of line patterns I have seen in Arabic art & architecture) – I don’t think there were other color options more appropriate to this unusual manifestation of natural art. Also, I like the way that you limited the darker, red hues to the bulkier components of this flower/​flake –the petals & the core– while restricting the slimmer components –the dendrites– to just lighter orange/​yellow hues, thus balancing the whole act of violently-vibrant coloring.

You thought outside the box and came up with the most unique thingy I could ever imagine in symmetric art. Actually, something defiant relative to the laws of physics: whereas symmetry brings a notion of perfect order –more feasible in cold environments–, heat is often seen instead as a representation of entropy –or chaotic disorder– that could be the opposite of symmetry. Symmetry vs. entropy – order vs. disorder – cold vs. heat. Yet here you brought order (symmetry) to heat – at least to the flower/​flake itself, because the tiny embers/​sparks seem to obey instead entropy for the reasons I stated above when I pointed out some lack of symmetry on them. It was a nice treat to my eyes, and in spite of the small flaws concerning the sparks, I applaud your unique effort here. Thankee!

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lulu-illussions [2019-06-16 17:40:48 +0000 UTC]

Hello, commenting on behave of ProjectComment ´s Big comment contest.

I think that combination of shape and colour on this showflake is very interesting. Usually, snowflakes are cold, but this one seems like made with fire and even your description compares it to forest fire. I think that it´s interesting to sometimes experiment with unusual colour palette for usual things. Fire colours make this snowflake look original and eyescatching.

As for the shape, I like that it resembles traditional snowflakes, while having those sparks-like fireflies around (sorry, dunno how to call them). I think that they look very nice, like tiny sparks flying off the burning fire, which gives sense of motion to the picture.

Overall, the colours are blended and shaded very nicely, making it look like burning.

The only tip for improvement is about background. I think that those red tails coming out of the snowflake aren´t completely symmetrical. It would be complicated to describe, so I marked it here:

(click for closer view)

See the green marked tails? The one going from upper left to lower right is corresponding to tail going from lower left to upper right. Most of the other tails look more or less symmetrical, but these two don´t. I think that with all picture being very symmetrical, the background should keep this symmetry too.

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DSX62415 [2019-06-16 13:03:28 +0000 UTC]

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For starters, I feel like this is a nice companion piece to the "serated sky" one you made, with the points being more smoothed out and the black background acting as a sort of night sky touch to differentiate the two. The shades and gradients used don't hurt either to help sell the point of "opposites".

My only gripe is that I technically feel as if the red in the background could be spread out a little more thrown in with a possible soft blend.

All in all, a great piece.

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TheDarkEmperess [2019-05-11 16:22:07 +0000 UTC]

Cool. It  looks   similer   to  the  scene  in  Peter  Pan: return   to  NeverLand.

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yourshipsux [2019-05-11 12:17:13 +0000 UTC]

loving the colors and the detail, the patterns look really cool!

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ThePurpleGriffin [2019-05-11 11:31:05 +0000 UTC]

Awesome job with the colors!!  

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Maralene [2019-05-03 04:06:18 +0000 UTC]

I love it!! The colors and tint of work great together!!

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Izvin [2019-05-02 16:19:48 +0000 UTC]

Autumn glory. leonine grace and unfazed woodwitch... Something like that. It looks mature, solid, mighty and just amazing.

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