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Will be moved to scraps later. Just doing some more fanart of RagamuffinWerewolf's comic, Jezebel Holler. Read it here: http://jezebel-holler.smackjeeves.com/ This is just one part and expludes much of the forest, a character, etc.
Train design borrowed heavily (aka digitally traced) from here: http://mainlinesteam.co.nz/ka942.html
Train plow heavily borrowed from here: http://miriadna.com/desctopwalls/im.....he-station.jpg
I hope to make this my first digital painting. Also working with a lot of tools to get perspective right. Stretch, skew, rotate, etc. Lots of fun!
Lemme know if anything jumps out at you as wrong. Right edge of the plow, me thinks could be pushed down a bit. Hmmm...
Peace and love!
~Red
Train design borrowed heavily (aka digitally traced) from here: http://mainlinesteam.co.nz/ka942.html
Train plow heavily borrowed from here: http://miriadna.com/desctopwalls/im.....he-station.jpg
I hope to make this my first digital painting. Also working with a lot of tools to get perspective right. Stretch, skew, rotate, etc. Lots of fun!
Lemme know if anything jumps out at you as wrong. Right edge of the plow, me thinks could be pushed down a bit. Hmmm...
Peace and love!
~Red
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It looks good Red.
I'm trying to avoid specific things because overall it looks good, and I spend waaaay too much time critiqueing art if I make it, if I applied the same process I'd spend the next hour looking at the image down to the pixels.
One thing is on the mid right where the train meets the plow it kinda goes all bendy into it.
(Don't tempt me to use my super detailed eyesight and perfectionist tendencies here.....)
I'm trying to avoid specific things because overall it looks good, and I spend waaaay too much time critiqueing art if I make it, if I applied the same process I'd spend the next hour looking at the image down to the pixels.
One thing is on the mid right where the train meets the plow it kinda goes all bendy into it.
(Don't tempt me to use my super detailed eyesight and perfectionist tendencies here.....)
Keep going! Just on tracing, look up tutorials on how to use references. From the ones I've read, they don't say that referencing is bad, just that tracing is. The reason they give for this is because it doesn't teach you how to manipulate the proportions to create something from the references that is accurate, but not a copy. Also, it's immensely practical too, as there are very few pictures out there that will exactly fit what you're wanting to draw. =)
Yeah tracing will definitely not become a habit. This was mainly just to get some lines down so that I could paint on them, which is the big goal of this piece for me. I actually did play with the proportions and perspective of the line art quite a bit with the transform tool. This wouldn't match up too easily to the original picture, and I drink try didn't want it too. It don't have that "towering" feel I wanted because the picture was too static.
But again--definitely not making tracing a habit. That would suck to get decent at digital painting and then be utterly unable to really draw anything. :/
But again--definitely not making tracing a habit. That would suck to get decent at digital painting and then be utterly unable to really draw anything. :/
Oh, I wasn't trying to shoot you down or anything! It was just some advice I got from artists that really helped me to move forward. It helps with confidence when you know you can sketch the proportions out without closely following your reference, but then again, you need to closely follow them for a bit in order to learn! Besides, the sketch layer here isn't super detailed, so you can quite easily build upon this initial reference with more of your own ideas. =)
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