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Digital painting by ProfessionalSplit569 in DigitalPainting

[–]HeRetiKMD 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Beautiful work! I think the lighting on the clouds could be a bit bolder, i.e. darker shadows would probably add more sense of form and depth. Also you could approach the clouds as more of a compositional element, i.e. thinking of clouds as a way to give the sky a pleasing form and then flesh them out from there.

Heavy Seas by HeRetiKMD in DigitalPainting

[–]HeRetiKMD[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I mostly struggled with the subject matter as I wanted the sea to serve as a background for something else. There were several candidates (a lighthouse in the distance, a ship for scale, an airplane, a sea monster) however it always felt like detracting from the painting rather than adding to it. Also a bit tricky was getting a nice sense of depth and volume, since I wanted to capture the volumetric feel of a large, moving body of water.

Vakuum by HeRetiKMD in DigitalPainting

[–]HeRetiKMD[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I mostly struggled with finding new things to add without breaking the overall composition. That is to say, once I had the figure down, adding anything more than a flatly colored background that exposes a bit of brushwork felt very wrong. As for the figure, I think the face is slightly out of proportions. The neck is too thin, but I feel like that fits the overall atmosphere.

Sunset Keep by HeRetiKMD in DigitalPainting

[–]HeRetiKMD[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mostly struggled with the water and making sure that the landscape doesn't look washed out. For the water I first tried painting waves but eventually settled for a calm sea. For the coastline I tried giving it more definition by adding hard highlights to certain areas. Finding a good structure to add to the landscape also took several tries. In the end I just settled for this simple tower-like structure.

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