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This is my first go at digital art! Well, anything more than a basic sketch that is. I picked rather randomly at previous work I've done and decided to color it. Now that I know quite a bit more about using photoshop, I'd definitely do a few things differently. I've worked quite obsessively at this for the last few days. Glad it's done finally! I'm really happy with it. A big thank you goes out to everyone who's put up tutorials for photoshop. As a beginner photoshop is a bit daunting.

Since backgrounds are my weak point I would ask that critique is focuses there; on the sky, grass, mountains, and tree. Please give me tips, I'm very new to photoshop and I'm sure I don't know many techniques available.

Probably took about 35 hours to do, including all the research I needed to do to learn about photoshop.

This is the digital art version of... [link]

It is not okay to use or modify my artwork in any way, without my permission. Thank you!

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oh wow it turned out great :D

the only suggestions i could say is, you put so much detail in the foreground, the background hills look really plain and rushed.

other than that, it looks great. i love the details in the hair and dress! red turned out great ;)

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"Do what you want, is that what you wana hear? Well I can't let you do it, because if you die on me, I'm guna have nightmares." <Cloud
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It's neat to see you colouring in photoshop; you seem to be doing quite well at it. (Better than me, certainly!)

The fade on the vines is gorgeous. It's good that you used the stock grass brush in a very dynamic way; it doesn't look 'cheap' at all. You did a very effective job of making it look like decent grass texturing.

It's noticeable that the background's quite faded out. This is good in a way, as it draws attention to the character, but in another way it takes away slightly from the 'realness' of the piece. The tree is the main thing; it could be a bit sharper than the background but still faded enough to draw attention to the main character, and it would have a bit more perspective to it that way. The shading on the character is well done, especially near the hand and chin areas.

The hair is very dynamic. The only thing that jarrs slightly there is the accidental white dot closer to the bottom; those are just little somethings to watch for.

The wings are gorgeous; it's great how you've managed to capture so much of the original pencil detail. Lots of very cool little details here; the lights and strange spike fruits really add to the completeness of the whole piece.

Keep up the great work! If I could suggest for the next one, if you do a new lineart to work with, I find it's a lot more fun to colour since you're not reliving an older piece that you've already dealt with.

Cheers;
-Sephren

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