Dave's Digitals

Thanks, Crank. I was able to throw some more values around today. Trying to bring the woods to life, and also added some more to the characters as well.

This is cool. I love the framing of the character in the background.

It's odd too. Very visually interesting!

Once again, it has so much texture and depth. Good work Dave!

Thanks, Dom. Didn't get much time to work on this today, but did do a little though. But for some reason, I'm not sure I'm liking the girl or how she's coming along. Something about her keeps feeling off, I just can't figure what?

Well, let me try this again. Think HAL might not have liked my first attempt? Might be have been the file names of the pics, which were assigned by my camera? Or possibly their size? ... Anyway I dabbled with the image above a little more, but not enough to post an update. But I thought I'd share this little creature with everyone. Just found it this morning on the side of my office, where one of my contractors is doing some work for us. It was tucked down into one of the wall blocks they are setting, which only has about 2 1/2" to 3" slots. I was able to pull her/him out and had animal control come by to pick it up to hopefully find someone who will give it a good home.




Hard to see, but this is the block he/she was in.



Close up

Looking good Dave! To me the first thing I notice regarding the woman was her mouth/cheeks on the right feel a bit out of proportion or exaggerated too much. Hope this helps!

Thanks, Crank. I did make some adjustments to her face, mostly trying to give her a softer look/chin and took some of the bridge off her nose, etc. Stepped away from her for a bit to work on the rest some more. But didn't have too much time to work on it. Still working on values mostly.

Sorry Dave I haven't commented on this sooner....before you started putting values in. I find that her right hand is in a strange position...I don't think you would see that much of her fingers in profile..curled around his head to the front. Makes his head more two dimensional then 3D. Or that she has really long palm.

The face looks good now and the background is wonderful though it needs to have less contrast than you foreground figures....fog or bright sunlight.

Haha... no worries, Lori. It's never too late with digital art! Even after a signature.

Funny you mentioned her hand. After working all day, I put it up on screen to look at while I was eating, and the hands were really bothering me. So I spent just a little time shrinking them both, and I did try to lower her right hand some. I thought it was arched too much. She's supposed to be reaching over and petting the one side, or ear-back. (I do this with my pups, and your palm usually rides somewhere along their center or spine.) But I will work on it some more if it's still not reading correctly with these adjustment? - I was also adding some more contrast, which I tend to do slowly as I work up the pic. Not sure why, just always have?

Thanks again. Here's the update.
Edit: Forgot to mention I was also fooling with the idea of adding some fur near the hands.

Dave - I also reach around to pet the off side of my cat's head but I think the viewer would see more of the wrist/thumb when the hand is in this position. Maybe you could get your wife to be a hand model for you, either on one of the pups, or if they fail to cooperate perhaps a stuffed animal.
Make sure she signs a modeling release or that you pay her the going rate

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