More freelance.
They have 120 credit for that much overpayment.
Lucky for me the overpayment occurred when it did.
Coasting into Soc Security payments made easier.
15 days away.
On to color
color done
Marty exploration of layering more neutrals in BKG:
Tone down purple by adding a layer (set on OVERLAY) of yellowish gray...
Marty exploration of layering more neutrals in BKG:
...knock back BKG with a layer (set on MULTIPLY--thank you, Tom Moon) of darker blue'ish slate gray (halved the transparency to keep it from getting too dark)
Does this look any better?
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Really cool! And that's great good fortune on the overpayment...sounds like it came at just the right moment.
I love Elfs. Elves. And you always draw such good ones. Did they choose the pose on this? I like some of the flow of the thumbs even better...he looks very powerful, a lot like the Elric book cover by Michael Whelan I posted on Tumblr the other day!
I saw that. I'm not sure I knew you were an Elric fan. I was always in the Elric is scrawny and weak that the earlier artist depicted. I loved those books when I first read them. Jack Gaughan
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These are all such little masterpieces of composition. Enjoy how you pick an appropriate background for each picture and integrate it beautifully with the foreground figure.
Thanks Tom. I'm still incredibly bugged by color.
I think the color looks pretty dang good. And I really like the way you make it feel like a set with actual lights--I don't know if it's just a (semi-lazy?) use of Photoshop lighting fx or what exactly, but his raised hand really feels like it's moving toward something with an almost fluorescent light acting on it...which is cool and puts us in the scene! I like the way the pose looks in the final, too. Maybe not different, but feels less stiff.
Thatnks Marty. Makes me feel better about the work to have some comments. I just keep ladling photoshop at it. I could continue to work on it. I always turn the in with the note that I'm ready to edit. But the guy usually says 'fantastic' so we're done at that point.
I really like that you've gone with a clearly defined limited palette. But I wonder if that isn't providing a small obstacle to finding complete satisfaction here...? That purple is great in the Rune Wheel(tm), but maybe it's grabbing our eye a little too much when used in the big swath of bkg? Esp'ly to the left of the figure?
Maybe try giving it a little overlay of a midtone neutral? Something from the zone near yellow (the purple color's compliment)? Then maybe a multiply layer of slate-y blue? Again, close to grey but with a tint of blue?
I'm trying to learn this stuff, too--that's why I'm trying to be specific!
Here, I'll show you:
My jpg's came in lighter than yours, which is unintentional.
Is this the thing that's bugging you? Finding good neutrals to let your colors pop where you want them to pop?
BTW, I love the handling of the little jaggy up-n-down shading on the ground where it fades into the blackness beyond--really works!
I only colored the BKG space and a little of the foreground book area--al just big swipes with a sponge brush. The dang translation from multiple saves has washed the thang out too much...but maybe you can still see the effect?
Marty , this may be one of my moments when color blindness keeps me for appreciating what is happening in your example. You saw some purple that is leaping off the page and you put it under a unifying 'glaze.' I thought about doing that as a final step to fake all the colors into a type of unity. Then I didn't. We'll see what reaction I get back. See if they want to change the purple. I'll find it via color picker.
I understand that translation to blogspot being iffy. So this was more washed out than you expected? That's really all I see is that you've desaturated a few things and made it 'washed out.' If you made some color changes, I may not be able to see them. Not being able to see when you reduce the red in purple for instance.
The streakiness is using adjustment layers that I use the pen tool to hatch the adjusted color with. It can look good. Just like the occasional permissible hatching that sometimes goes on it oil painting. Certainly fits what I'm doing since it is bottomline just a colored drawing.
Thanks for taking the time to give me some notes like this. I'll study it some more.
I do see what you've done. It looks better, more in control and in the same type key value. Which I thought I was getting better at.
Elz! No, no--any perceived improvement "in control and same type key value" you see is due to the (unintended) wash-out effect. I just knocked back the purple in the BKG, pure n' simple. It did make the BKG a little darker (which tragically, inexcusably obscures yr great cobwebs), but not by much.
I love what you did! My quickie color mod was done in response to yr very strong comment above: "I'm still incredibly bugged by the color." Thought we could search for an answer to yr dissatisfaction with the color...but if you don't see any change, I guess we're running up against the barrier of your personal color perception situation...?
Anyhow, I found it very instructive to play around with it. So thank you for involving me!
I like doing that sort of thing myself. You probably like painting into your students work. I like to help light bulbs come on in kids brains. Do you students have their work done digital so you can easily do non destructive notes on their work?
Good, glad you also get something from this interplay of ideas that we call The Tuesday art Group Web Log (or "Blog")!
Some students work digitally but I'm not set up to work that way, so no, we don't work back and forth via pixels. I do a lot of drawing for them, tho'--sometimes in their sketchbook, but only rarely on their actual drawing.
They're fussy that way.
One of my college teachers, Ralph Borge, told me it bugged him when his instructor would come around draw corrections right on his drawings. So Ralph always took a piece of tracing paper and laid it on top of our drawings to make his corrections on.
You have to be sensitive to it. Instructed sketch assignments should be disposable and appropriate for painting and drawing into. But it can anger the artist. I used to have a couple of paintings where Jeff Watts had dabbed on them. His dabs were of course the best part. It makes you study "Why is that better?"
Enworld got back to me and said fantastic job. I could live like this. Doing art I like doing for easy to please people.
Sounds like a wonderful gig Ellis. May it continue forever for you!
Maybe a year or so. Give me a body of cool work.
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