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Post by Nixie on Mar 23, 2010 4:07:57 GMT -5
Fan art for Las Lindas. Sarah and Rachael are chillin' with a giant strawberry. Because they can.
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Post by Kristal Rose on Mar 23, 2010 6:08:42 GMT -5
Wow, that's gorgeous. I'm just now eating a fruit salad with strawberries. ..and yay, it's my birthday!
Hmm. My two favorite names.
One of them looks kinda getting sick.
Too bad it's not desktop ratio.
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Post by Nixie on Mar 23, 2010 12:36:16 GMT -5
Bottom one is sighing after sipping soda, not getting sick.. ^^;
Happy birthday! *makes you a thread*
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Post by Tenjen on Mar 23, 2010 15:08:06 GMT -5
<3
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Post by Kristal Rose on Mar 23, 2010 22:27:43 GMT -5
Ooh, I do get a thread. I suppose the distinction between relieved and defeated sighs is subtle. Chin out for happy or expectant, head tilted for romantic.
Things like the strawberry leaves and all of the gray gal look like sculpted out of smooth plastic. You do that fine, but isn't that look a bit dated and inappropriate for the subject matter?
Composition is quite nice. I'm not sure the pallette of the gal below synergizes the piece though, or even fits (Though I suppose that may be her color in any scene.) The strawberry leaves tie the two palettes together, but I suppose color and placement alone gave me an unintended interpretation of upper cheerful and lower dismal.
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Post by Nixie on Mar 23, 2010 22:33:58 GMT -5
I designed neither the characters nor their clothing. That's what Rachael always wears.
I like the shiny look. All my old stuff was too dark and blurry and too high contrast... Bu tI have been getting a lot of "It's too shiny!" comments, so maybe I should tone it down. Ugh. I've been using shiny highlights as a replacement for cell highlights.
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Post by Kristal Rose on Mar 23, 2010 23:18:10 GMT -5
What about earthy, like your field here? That's not shiny. Glad I'm not the only one saying something, and looking like a lone wet blanket.
Do you have any examples yet, since back in the Sonic days, of appropriating existing spec chars?
Most importantly, have you even figured out what specialties you want to seek work in first?
There's a huge difference between providing CSS for sites and sketching scene visualizations.
My recommendation is that whatever you choose, it be something involving lots of people with lots of networking and horizontal latitude, meaning you can slide from storyboarding to visualizations or expression editing or something. In other words, a complete multimedia studio, not some isolated department, or a small ad agency or web designer. Otherwise you run the risk of getting stuck in something less than ideal and specializing in a less approriate track. It happens to more than half the planet. If you settle on less than your dream, that's what you get.
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Post by Nixie on Mar 23, 2010 23:47:33 GMT -5
The field is the ugliest part of the picture. I honestly don't care for earth tones or textures.
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