Comments on: Brave, a digital painting for Illustration Friday

By: blog post about blogs about illustration | Starbright Illustrations

blog post about blogs about illustration | Starbright Illustrations — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:55:09 +0000

[...] know that I try not to miss their weekly art challenge. I’m really quite pleased with how my Illustration Friday entry for this week turned [...]

By: happy chinchilla

happy chinchilla — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 05:33:04 +0000

Great illustration.
I really enjoy seeing how everybody works, so thanks for showing your process.

By: Adam Foster-Fahy

Adam Foster-Fahy — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 18:59:27 +0000

Thanks for including the steps with your illo, I always find this so fascinating. I think that the moment your illo started developing problems was when you used such heavy blacks on the previously subtle palette you had there. Digital black is such a flat, oily nothing of a colour that it sucks the life out of things around it. If you do end up doing some more to this why not lay down a few flat colours across the whole image, low saturation and low opacity to bring the tonal range up a few notches before you carry on. I think that you have a strong light source in an interesting composition, and that the largely monotone background really helps the splash of colour on the character’s face dominate the scene, but the jet black smudge that has crept over the rest of the pictorial space spoils it a little.

By: Justin Segal

Justin Segal — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 07:57:09 +0000

Nicely done. It sets a great mood — love them sharp teeth!