Charlotte's Works

This is absolutely fantastic work, Charlotte! You did this in Artrage? Wow, I love the shadows and light in it.

Only crit would be her left (our right) shoulder. Looks to be popped up too high.

Thanks Dave - I took a look at the ref and yes the shoulder line should have been more of a straight horisontal line without the dip between/from shoulder strap and/to shoulder...

Some sort of "speed paint" for a new FB avatar - I don't think I'll use it though. Was going for "kinda cute" and ended up with "kinda creepy". And dull... Ho hum.

I think it is both cute and creepy Charlotte!

The dandelion hair looks great! I really like the face too because the character looks just as likely to give you a magical gift as bite you!

The election is over so I guess there's no point in having a dandelion avatar anymore I'd forgotten about that - I keep starting new pics without finishing any of them...

This weekend I started this year's christmas card. Figured I'd better start before it was too late seeing as I always take so long to finish anything. Last year the xmas card was sort of red so this year I'm going for sort of blue... (Guess next year's will be green ) It's still early stages and I'm not sure how to get the spruce and the moss to look like I want... (the only thing pretty much finished - I think - is the pot). Anyway I'm currently working with postcard size (but 300 ppi) as I haven't decided whether I want to make it bigger in case I ever want it for anything but postcard sized postcards...

Nice start, and cool idea on creating your own Christmas Cards. Look forward to seeing it completed.

Digital Dave wrote: Look forward to seeing it completed.

yeah, me too Hopefully in time... I still haven't figured out how to best paint the spruce but I think I might be able to handle the moss... maybe...

Charlotte, what a creative idea to do your own card. Nice start. Not sure what the moss and spruce are going to be. Is it the green in the background going to be a branch on the ground/table? Right now the only real issue I see is the image appears split in two down the middle by the candle and the flower. If you are putting words/greeting then they could be used to breakup the split. Looking forward to seeing more.

uhm, seems I sorta er... got side tracked. Again. Anyway, I've tried several times to paint the spruce (yes the green in the background) but it never looks right and I'm back to the issue of the colours greying out the more I paint. Darn you ArtRage. Considering giving Painter 2015 a go (tried Painter XIII and didn't like it but perhaps I was unfair? ) Anyway yes the spruce and the moss is the fluffy blur in the background for now. Not too concerned about the "split" since I hope the other stuff (moss and all) will tie it together a bit, but yes if I ever get back to it I suppose there should be writing too...

Anyway, in light of the brief discussion on bird evolution over in the Random thread, I figured I might as well show another thing I've been working on. Which I'm also stuck on... It looks rather crappy right now and I have no idea to move forward. Probably need to practice painting birds from refs, anyway...







(the leafy background doesn't look so bad if you view the image stamp size but oh I hate it at full size lol)

I think it looks good.

The depth of field works really well.

What have you used for reference? Hoatzin are an example of a modern bird with clawed wings. It might help as a photo reference and for lighting maybe.