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temiel

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Artist // Professional // Varied
  • May 31, 1986
  • United States
  • Deviant for 21 years
  • She / Her
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Call me Temiel or Tem - whatever you like best. Meow :3

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Favourite Visual Artist
Kinuko Craft, James Jean, Iain McCaig, Junji Ito, Jody Lee, Susan Jeffers, Herbert Draper
Favourite Movies
Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, The Fall, Amadeus, Secretary, Princess Bride, Disney animation
Favourite TV Shows
Carnivàle, Breaking Bad, Parks & Recreation, Hannibal
Favourite Bands / Musical Artists
Corvus Corax, Loreena McKennitt, Nightwish, Capercaillie, Mediaeval Baebes, Déanta, Lúnasa
Favourite Writers
Hugo, Nabokov, Jacqueline Carey, Margaret Atwood
Favourite Games
Any of the Civs, Sims 2, KOTOR 1/2
Favourite Gaming Platform
Tabletop!
Tools of the Trade
.3MM mech pencil, Photoshop, Micron pens, Copic markers
Other Interests
Tabletop RPGs, illustration, comics, world music, horror novels, weird religious paraphernalia

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HRF, I'm SO sorry it took me so long to respond to this-- I was away this weekend and didn't have a chance to write as much as I wanted to.

Weirdly enough, when I started this one I didn't really see it as "stepping out of my comfort zone", but in retrospect, I really did. OPAQUE PAINT ON TOP OF A SKETCH INSTEAD OF UNDER?! MULTIPLE GLAZING LAYERS?! WTF IS THAT??!! :XD: I'm glad you like it-- I'm just very pleased that it ended up looking REMOTELY like I imagined it looking in my head. :phew:

What you're saying about the half-tints sounds like what =Cacodaemonia said when she mentioned there's not a lot of gradation (particularly on the skin) between the green shadows and the more rosy areas. I mentioned to her that I kind of rushed this one toward the end, just because I didn't want to have to leave it for a whole day and then come back and hate it the next evening and want to restart it all over (DAY JOOOOB... :shakefist:). You're definitely right about there being a lot more color variation on the shadows in the original. As I've mentioned, I'm still slowly getting the hang of lighting and how it works. The response I've gotten from this one indicates that I should probably incorporate a lot more reflected lighting from the environments, which I have to admit is something I've never really considered a lot (in fact, I think I was looking at one of *shideh's walkthroughs recently and she mentioned reflected light, and I read that and realized I'd forgotten it even existed as a concept! :noes: BIG failure. :XD:).

Thanks so much for the really in-depth crit. I always appreciate them, even though I don't usually put the full Crit Request up just because I don't want my watchers to feel obligated to do them if they'd rather not (I usually figure if people see something worth mentioning, they can call me out on it in a plain old comment). :hug:
The Mockingbird's Bower
Yes, you're totally right. A couple other people mentioned just those things-- the green in the shadows, and the sharper edges-- and they're certainly things I know I need to work on since I'm so brand-new at this whole... opaque painting thing. :XD: Thanks for the tips!
The Mockingbird's Bower
I approve of your two stars for originality. I ARE UNCREATIVE. :slow: :XD:

Seriously, though, you're totally right about my horrible ears. In the original painting the figure's head was at a different angle, so I didn't really have a proper reference for the ear (well, I could've found one, but I'm lazy :roll:).

Thanks about the hand positions-- the reason I picked this painting to refer to was totally because of that really delicate hand position, I'm totally in love with it. :heart: I'm glad I replicated it okay!

Also, thanks for the tip on the darker folds picking up the green-- I'm only JUST getting the hang of proper environmental lighting and how it effects the lights and darks on a figure (I keep telling people, how did I make it through art school with such obvious deficiency in stuff like lighting?! :noes:). It's definitely something I need to keep an eye on in the future.

P.S. re Satine-- I'm actually really glad she reminds you of her, because even though when I came up with Rian I wasn't really thinking of Satine, Rian reminds me a lot of her! When I was making her soundtrack, I put "Sparkling Diamonds" on there, because it's so unabashedly a Rian song to me. :3

Thanks a lot for the helpful crit! :hug:
The Mockingbird's Bower