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7d

Wow, thank you a bunch for all of the information and resources! I'll be taking notes and implement some of it right now :smile:

5d
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Critique Part 1

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I cannot fit as much work as I wanted to in one post. The rest of this week I will think on it and make notes, and attack the second part of the critique this coming weekend.

Disclaimer : Any examples I draw or paint over here are not what your art should look like. They are attempts are to show you a theory, tip, or hack to give you a brainwave and motivation to improve your skills. A white knuckled grasp at the next ladder rung. Only you can decide what your art should look like.

General Critique

I think all of your design and characters are really cool. The mid-evil money squirrel is my new spirit animal. They are thought out and have personality. I am going to show you how to give some pop and wow to all of them using value pattern theory, and counter change. And also color counter change.

I want to do it with examples because I think it will be fun. It really seems to hit home when people see their own art pushed to something they didn't know to look for in the first place.

WHAT YOU KNOW YOU NEED - GO READ
At first I thought it would be necessary to illustrate a certain point that you already mentioned - your composition and perspective. I am not going to cover perspective and composition theory since I referred you to those resources that can explain them faster and clearer than I can. I will also be referencing them from time to time - perhaps.

Remember this forever -
THE MAGIC IS IN WHAT YOU ARE NOT DOING. (So go do that thing DUH)

SHADOWS
Your composition and value patterns suffer the most. I dont know if the black lines are helping you with that - but more on that later. You are first and foremost not having a consistent key light source. The main light. It is all over the place on some of your surfaces as seen on the read head's portrait draw over about 'light value chaos'.

Your shadow area darks, are too dark when they don't need to be and do not take advantage of bounce light to make rich color. They are creating a contrast that is not helping the mood - which is what we want value to do - work for us with purpose.

PRINTING
I mention this a couple of times. If we dont need the contrast in a certain area - bring it down a notch. All of these dark ass purples, black and blues are going to come out black on a color printer - unless you go to a twelve color printing service. Most people use four color printers at best. These will come out too dark for printing. You want to work in TTRPG, make sure that the CMYK mode is on and applicable to your printing needs. I dont care how you do it - just check it. Paint in RGB, then adjust in CMYK mode for clarity. If you do it the other way around you will not take advantage of screens to show a richness of a digital portfolio. So, do with that what you will.

If I think of anything else I will edit it in. So lets get on with it.

HORNED LASS
The horned lass has got the sickest drip. I cant express to you how cool this fit is. I wish I could come up with that kind of stuff.

I am going to paint over the knees, the leather, and maybe the face and hair since I did the magic in the markup below. I will also redo the value counter change and color counter change as an example to give you a more pleasing illustration for a full character pose like this. For now here are the markup notes.

RED HEAD.
Overall - very busy. Tons of potential though. She has a bit of a wonky eye, and the face cheek sort of rolls up into her nose with the way it is lit. This one has the craziest light sources every where going in every direction. Then some brown corners which I am really confused by.

I just kept going and going and going and ran out of weekend. I want to illustrate a point I think - and not really do much more of a demonstration on this one. I got to a point with the key light and composition theory and stopped myself so I could think on it more with what I want to show you - mainly that the value counter change method can be used with gradients. Then the way you keep a key light consistency using NOTAN theory. I have a few videos in mind I might edit in and post here to illustrate the theory more clearly. It is just a tool to help us design with 'cearly's mood' theory quickly and not get lost in the sauce of rendering.




That's all for now-I will update this post and a second one perhaps because these have the potential to show you some real differences with some simple tricks.

Ta for now.

3d

Alright! So I've decided to start by reworking the tiefling to put your critique into practice. I've opted to make it more painterly and to eliminate the lines later once I've settled on the colors and values. I'll be adding an actual background rather than just a colored block. Might as well make this a good portfolio piece if I re-make it!

First, I've fixed the horns and the jaw. Rings were added to the tail to balance the jewelry like mentioned. I'm noticing that the contrast may still be too strong on the tail, so I'll fix that in my next post. As for the feet "fuzz", I'll make this texture clearer once I get rid of the lines. I thought that hooves on a humanoid without a switch to some fuzz would look odd, so I was aiming to have some light fur covering this area and the tail. Do you think that I should make the fur longer?

I also redid all of the colors by keeping in mind to not overdo the darks. I've also tried to go in another direction for her spell and to make it into something more "tangible" to look at. Since I want this to be the focus, I also adjusted the values to put more contrast nearby the magic. For the light vs shadows, I've tried to keep it simple: A weak ambient light coming from the top right, its complementary shadow from the bottom left, and the strongest light coming from the spell.

About the jewelry in the hair and on her person that look like a "bad gold"; My goal was to make them glow with the same color as the spell, as if even her equipment is enchanted with the magic she's using. You were right though, this wasn't clear at all and the lighting on them was weird. I've added a bit more luminosity for them on the equipment to try and clarify that. Trying to find the balance between making this clear, and not stealing the attention away from the spell. I've also darkened her potion for this reason.

Thank you again for the detailed critique, I'll be waiting for your feedback! :blush:

3d

holy cow! (pun intended!) This looks amazing! I can't wait to get to this! Thank you so much for responding and re-posting! SUPER RARE! --

The face looks sooo good, and i'm looking where I should be!!! And Wowza on the wing now that you can see it! Such a cool shape!

It's got my brain going and I'll show you how to use those darks to your advantage for form depth in rendering as well as the value and color composition!

Sorry for all the exclamation points!