<3 I love this so much

Oh my this is so beautiful gorgeous

you can almost feel the love and patience of the mother for her overactive son :D

Pshew, overactive ha ha. He does look a little bit like one of those.

Very nice concept and beautifully done

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Cute <33

Lovely.

OH. MY. GOSH!

This is too adorable for my brain to process... and your painting skills are just too amazing. I can't even begin to understand your understanding of light and colors. U_U

I am learning slowly @____@

It is so daunting! It makes me feel a lot more at ease knowing that you are learning slowly... Not that I want anyone to learn slowly, but I know there is nothing wrong with me. LOL

Nope. Not gonna say it......ok...aaaw, adorable.

I just love the lighting in this. You've got some sort of witchery going on with your ability to paint light and shadow :B

The witchery is just starting out from a middle tone and pushing shadows darker and darker and pushing highlights lighter and lighter. I find it always makes more sense when I start from a middle tone instead of trying to go from straight white. It also goes much faster. I get form 'wrong' a lot but at least it's there, if you know what I mean?

I try to start from a middle tone with acrylic, but my problem is I get my shadows and highlights, and then when it's time to add color, I either glaze and it still looks too gray, or I lose all my values by having to use opaque color D:

That's so strange to me because most of the painting is my own black mix and white, so by all accounts it should look mostly grey. It IS mostly grey, though it's always warmer or cooler depending. Do you use a black?

Also I've slowly been learning over the past year just when and where to use glaze and opaque. The lighter orange is glaze. The really strong red brown along the line of shadow between the light source and reflected light is several layers of opaque color, as that place specifically is where you're going to see your most saturated colors. I think it's that extra punch of intense color in the deep shadows closest to the viewer that makes it *seem* like it's not all grey, when really it's mostly grey.

Yeah, I start off with a neutral gray (or a slightly tinted gray), and then go to town building value with pure black, white and grays. I just hate spending so much time building value and then losing a lot of it when it comes time to add color.

Ah ha, I see. What I do is start with a monochrome scale where I intend to keep most of the painting that color. So in this case it was a prussian blue/vandyke brown mix that became a kind of blue-grey. The vast majority of the 'grey' still shows through, so I'm not trying to cover it all up with color. I built the entire image with this middle tone with more or less blue or brown so the warm/cool could play off of each other. I then did a single pass with a glazing-liquid heavy orange on the tiger, brown-orange on the cub, and built up the lights with pure white-yellow and the shadow with pure warm browns and oranges. I'm kind of a freak for economy, so if I can do it in as few colors as possible and with as few coats of paint as possible, I will :P

(It's me again; I've come back to jabber at you about painting some more.)

I remember when I first took a painting class in college and I remember using too much white and feeling like there was nothing I could do about it and I just had to not make these washed out paintings, and now I'm like: white white white white! All I have to do is slap a pure-color glaze on top!

I've noticed that certain colors make really shitty glazes for taking that wash-out grey look away. Pretty much any of the traditional colors, really. If you want to beat the grey it helps to use that skittles-colored phalo-kind-of-neon-bullshit HA HA HA. Yellow ochre and the like is kind of washed out to begin with and makes for a poor glaze. I mean, if you want to just slap a glaze on and have something high-chroma. It's a fine glaze if you want muted.

TOO.... MUCH..... CUTENE_

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GWAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

*EXPLODES*

!!! this is amazing!

Aww that is really adorable, love the lighting

very beautiful...

V.

Reminds me of a short TV series I watched a little bit ago, called 'Unlikely Animal Friends'.

Worth a watch, if you're interested. Someone posted it on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQ0vigBvhoQ

What is FA's comments doing today, forreal....

So cute

That little tyke is amazingly adorable. Beautiful work! :)

Aww, this is adorable and so well detailed!