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 Post subject: Looking for Feedback on a Picture Work in Progress
PostPosted: Thu 01-18-2007 5:01PM 
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I have a feeling I'm opening myself up just to take flack with this request, however I'm inclined to ask for suggestions on the picture I'm currently working on.

I have done all the work strictly in flash so far, and am planning on finishing it in Photoshop once I get all the line art in.

The picture is for a widescreen background, and I've encountered a drawing block.

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very nice, i have never used flash but very nice

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flash sucks hairy transvestite balls.

but... the design does look cool.
when you say you have encountered a drawing block,
you mean you're out of ideas for what to do next to it?

i think it needs some sort of depth added.
maybe float the scroll work
or (even better) add some negatives in the white space you have.

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robertd wrote:
flash sucks hairy transvestite balls.

but... the design does look cool.
when you say you have encountered a drawing block,
you mean you're out of ideas for what to do next to it?

i think it needs some sort of depth added.
maybe float the scroll work
or (even better) add some negatives in the white space you have.

I agree. It looks like a great start on the foreground, but you could add a lot to the background to make it jump out at you a little more. Right know if just looks like doodling on a white board.

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Yeah, the Gray area was the part which I was having trouble deciding what to do with. I like the idea of putting negatives in the background, and I know I want place shadows to give the illusion of the image floating off the page.

The last thought that had crossed my mind was showing a reflection of the back of the design (the inverse of the front) as if it was reflected in water. It's something I've done before with fairly decent results.

However both of these I wouldn't work on in flash, and if I'm going to perform any further line art, I'd rather draw it before importing it into Photoshop.

Since the theme is centered around Hearts and Celtic design, I was wodering about throwing in some Ivy, Ice, Roses, etc. to fill the "white board" open area.


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how about crescent cutout shapes ( ) on either side, filled with gray (with a slight blue tint) smoke,
then highly reflective chunks of ice falling through the smoke, cutting a tunnel in the smoke?
and maybe even a light source coming from underneath,
letting you show whatever prismatic effects you want from the ice.

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Whatever you do, give it some sort of popping (for lack of a better word) effect. The drawing as it is right now is too flat. Like someone said, it looks like doodling. Give it some sort of 3rd dimension. I recommend one or more of the following:

Shadows-
Not just embossing or single-light-source-flat-surface shadows, cause that won't help. Cast the shadow onto some sort of monochromatic surface as the background with a texture, like chipped ice, or clouds/smoke, or even some sort of crystal. Just don't give it too much color, or it will detract from the design already in place.

A Second Drawing- Create another drawing that would complement this one on an entirely different image, and stack them. It would take some work and experimenting to get them to work together perfectly, but if you take 2 separate, fresh ideas, bring them together, and tinker with some details to help them match up, you can put together some interesting pieces.

Change The Colors- Perhaps your drawing block is coming from a dead end path. Change some environmental variables about your drawing to cast a new light on it. Make the background dark instead of light. Try other complementing colors for the lines. As someone else recommended, invert the colors of the image. Modifying something as simple as perspective can inspire a completely different path for the art.

Good Luck, and more importantly, have fun with your work.

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The design so far is just a sketch, reflections and shadows will be incoporated once I begin polishing it up in Photoshop.

What I am hearing is that it looks fine for a base and start adding the spiffy, then see about adding a second design to compliment the current.

I'll mess around with it some this weekend, and post what I have on Sunday night to see what the opinion is then.

Thanks for the comments so far. Keep them coming, I appreciate the feedback.

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