 That feeling when you get a new skill. I'm still training my brushwork and my speed to complete artwork. After many failed tests, this one is starting to bring together a lot of aspects that I like. A good reason to share it with you. I hope you'll like it. 51 comments
 @davidrevoy really David, you're so good, I'm amazed each time... Please keep up the good work!!! @fla Coucou! Merci et merci encore pour les madeleines ce dimanche; c'était sport mais j'ai réussi grâce à ça à tilter le stock du libraire :blobcheerbounce: Aussi, maintenant que j'ai vue ton avatar, je me souviens trop et ça remonte à loin, Diaspora. Rigolo comme parfois j'aurai réellement besoin de l'avatar des gens en conf 😊 @davidrevoy mon avatar c'est mon chat sur diaspora* : https://diaspora-fr.org/people/ccac722d863119dc Et ouais, se faire un badge avec son avatar c'est un truc qu'on avait fait au fosdem avec @AugierLe42e @jaywink ca avait bien marché  @davidrevoy Hi ! Very nice piece of Artwork ! ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ Oh ME does like this one. Empowered Women, competent and strong within themselves are very Aspirational for ALL of US!  @davidrevoy Very very very cool! I love that it conveys a magical/mystical/fantasy feeling. Love the style of the sword too! ^^ @davidrevoy Speculars! You need more speculars! Let this warrior shine! 😁 Honestly: this is fine. Very well balanced, nice brush strokes. @oliviersaraja Haha, Merci! Yes, I always have this taste for non shiny surfaces. But maybe it's time I consider that not like a taste but as a flaw. I'll try to place more dramatic specular in the future and see how it looks. Thanks for the advice! 👍 @davidrevoy Les cheveux et les jeux de lumière sont magnifiques 😍  @yuki2501 Feel free to comment anything that went immediately to your mind when you saw it. Especially if it is in the type of feedback "oh.... it's too bad xxxxxxxxxx wasn't better done, the piece could have been so much better with yyyyyyyyyyyyyyy , or zzzzzzzzzzz really breaks the suspension of disbelief I need to feel this piece as immersive. " @davidrevoy You're welcome! (In general I'm a sucker for details and rough plain areas kinda kill the immersion for me. Just adding some dirt or brown patches here and there would make me say something like "ooh a patch of arid land in that grass field!" instead of "meh, not enough effort.")  @chengdulittlea It's a "between 2h and 3h piece" because I bypass many steps I do usually (that's the reason of my training, a technique I can consider for future Pepper&Carrot comic pages). @davidrevoy Excellent brushwork and use of color to help draw the viewer around the piece. Negative space is well attended to and quite frankly, beautiful. Facial expression conveys a solemn confidence in the subject's ability to swing that sword and seeing the image makes me want to know more about this character. Great work! @montag Thank you very much for all the feedback; I agree and that's good to think about how scratches on a blade can bring additional storytelling instead of random scratches. Oh yes, her right arm was really like in; "what I do with this one". I'll try to plan better in the future. [edit: autocorrector white arm→right arm] @davidrevoy Très joli dessin. 😍 Juste un reproche, qu'on peut faire à de nombreux dessinateurs : corps féminin "classique". Ce serait bien de varier un peu. Notamment dans ce type de scène guerrière, un corps plus massif et musclé serait vraiment bienvenu. 💪  @davidrevoy @paoloredaelli Thanks for the report (it was already discussed on the comment). Yes, I grew up watching Anime like Knights of the Zodiac: Saint Seiya , and playing JRPG with this stylisation coming back often so I had no questioning about it. But now I see the mistake; I'll paint unified plastron next time I paint this. Thanks for the links, very interesting and sorry for the suspension of disbelief caused by this element. @davidrevoy The serenity of her facial expression appears gorgeously simple. The entirety of this piece feels so easy and light then the bright red of her hair is a pop of color creating a focal point that draws the eye continually back to the armored woman. Very lovely.  @davidrevoy This looks absolutely awesome! The shadowing of the armor makes it look so real and the contrast between front and back makes focusses the gaze so strongly. @davidrevoy well I am not really a fan of boobplate, but everyone to themselves. nice colour mix and composition with the background. @ewanderer Thanks! It's a hot topic on the comments already, I replied to it and I also agree. Thank you for your feedback!  @davidrevoy She looks great. Great pose, and i love the facial expression. Only complaint is in the background. I love the basic structure of the scenery. But the colors are a bit cloudy, and mix into one'another. And backgrounds can be an afterthought to the subject. But this scenery is almost perfect. Just a bit blury on the colors. @Scofisticated Thank you for the feedback! Thanks, I tried a very loose 'brushy' background; but I went maybe a little too extreme on its simplification because I had more feedback like your about it. I'll keep that in mind for my future artworks. 👍 |
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@davidrevoy This looks amazing!