ElissaKarminakria

I have other plans for the time being but I'll consider it in the future :)

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I chose to comment your piece because of the soft color and peaceful feeling I felt while watching it: well done. This is exactly the kind of things I would like to see when opening my book to jump in another chapter! I like mountains, I love the stream we seem between them, it helps state they are mountains. Without the stream, it would really be just random green shapes. I like the softness brought by the white lines and your choice of colors. I’ve searched a bit in your gallery and I see this is a regular thing in your art: keep it, it’s great! Another thing that is your trademark is the name writer around the piece. It’s alright but I’m not sure why you chose, in this piece, to have the casted shadow brown: it feels odd when all the piece is light (and also in your style: most of your pieces I’ve seen have a white casted shadow for the name and it would work much better, it would remind the white outlines… Well, I think!

About your piece, I understand you did it in a short time, for a daily challenge, which is very nice. I’m not able to draw landscapes and you rendered nicely the mountains. That being said, I wonder why you did a plain sky? In your mountain cells you allow yourself some variation in value and hue so maybe you could add a bit of variation, at least a small gradient in the sky to add just a bit of depth: lighter around the skyline, darker on top. Also, speaking of depth, I believe you tried to do atmospherical perspective with the white bits in the distance. But atmospherical perspective, basically, fades the far-away elements in the sky: that’s why a lighter sky around the skyline is needed to have it work. Here, your far-away elements are lighter than the sky. Also, the whole line/row of mountain should have equal atmospherical perspective (both center and borders of the row have the same amount of ‘perspective’ since they are at the same distance from the viewer).

I hope this helps a bit with your future landscape projects!

I wish you a nice day,

Elissa

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I was drawn to this piece by the vibrant green color and the funny outfit. You managed her clothes really well, I love the denim texture on her overalls! I appreciate how much effort and details you put: the rim, the stitching, the neck strap, well placed folds. Those big eyes, with contrasting colors, catch viewer’s attention. Well done! The pose is playful and works really well: one only wonders what is going on underneath this overalls…! That’s part of the fun of this drawing, of course.

Some improvements you may consider for future works:

-from her nose ring I can see you are able to shade metal very convincingly but you did not the same on the neck strap, maybe lack of time, maybe by choice, or maybe you forgot (I forget a lot of things myself!).

-there is a tangent between her back shoulder and her face: this could be avoided with a stronger and bigger casted shadow from her face down to the armpit, even on her arm down to the elbow (or by changing the pose but that is lot more work!). On the whole I feel you are a bit shy with casted shadows (for example, there should be one under the shirt). On the other hand, some of your casted shadows are misplaces, for instance, I think less shadows below the underwear would show better how tight it is stretching on the flesh (and we want it to be stretching, because of the storytelling of this piece, right? :D).

-I am not sure the background compliments your drawing, it is rather a distraction because it is too busy. It looks like something you could totally drop, or change: the strong texture clashes a bit with your soft work and your lack of hard edges in the way you do shadows and highlights. The frame is not even necessary since the hair and tail are already framing the figure very nicely. A geometric background (triangles, dots, without a frame and with tones already found in your drawing would support it instead of competing with it, if you do want a background.

Of course this is only my point of view, feel free to disregard it :)

I wish you a pleasant day,

Elissa

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