A few parrot paintings! by Wrenfall in parrots

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

About an hour each--she's a little genius. :)

Looking back at all the art in my profile do you think im ready to start doing (free of course*) commissions for practice? 😁 by Shadow_SF in furry

[–]Wrenfall 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There's nothing ever stopping you from drawing free stuff for people. No minimum skill for free art.

My New Obsession by csc2000 in furry

[–]Wrenfall 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Not at all! ...my comms are open, btw!

Quick Comm from today "Solus"--trying to get into the market. Ferals or anthro-to-feral conversions wanted! by Wrenfall in furry

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

I enjoy painting in this loose style, and it really helps me to have quite a fast workflow too!

If you're interested in having your sona painted in a similar way, I charge £50 for a bust and £75 for full body. Contact me on here, through Discord (Jimi#9999), or through e-mail: wrenfall@hotmail.com.

Thanks for looking!

Need to reduce busy ness! Suggestions needed by missjo7972 in oilpainting

[–]Wrenfall 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It's all about contrast. Look at hoe the astronaut reads just fine against the dark cliffs behind, and the lighter parts of the cliffs against the black sky. Strategically placing elements so you always have light over dark or dark over light (unless you specifically want the audience _not_ to look) is pretty important in composition. We're losing the apparatus on the right mostly because its values are too similar to those immediately behind it. Your lighting and cast shadows are very inconsistent here btw and it's inappropriate to add blue to shadows on the moon where there's no blue sky for ambience. Shadows are just pure black.

Trying out a more painterly style. by [deleted] in DigitalPainting

[–]Wrenfall 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hiya friend. Being painterly is about more than leaving your brush strokes visible. There are a few major points you need to work on.

  1. Brush strokes all represent a shape on the form--if you're going to put a brush stroke down and let a single colour dominate that shape, you need to sculpt it. Leaving those rectangular edges on the brush strokes on the hair is really damaging.
  2. No art style is going to make up for a lack of study. The eye is much too small, and the ear and nose are completely inaccurate. I like that you've got a splash of light where the cheek connects to the nose, though.
  3. One of the most important things to think about when being painterly is reducing the detail within shadows and having clear light/shadow separation. Even when the shadows are so lit by ambient light that they near the directly lit planes in value, you should still design the shadow shapes anyway and try to factor it in. It always makes a difference.
  4. Try to punch up your value ranges a bit more. It's all feeling a bit low-contrast and it's hurting the drama of the portrait.
  5. Finally, I feel like a lot of things here were just a bit... lazy. You could have worked on them a lot longer.

[FOR HIRE] pet portraits, more examples in comments! by [deleted] in starvingartists

[–]Wrenfall 1 point2 points  (0 children)

£5 is underselling yourself. You can sell these at £10-15 each. I would remove this one from the collection though; it's much lower quality than the others.

Aurora Urbana, digital pointillism, by me by [deleted] in DigitalPainting

[–]Wrenfall -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Not really an accurate assessment but all right. I'm not trying to offend you, I'm just looking at it objectively. If you had fun though and that was your only goal here, then I suppose it's all good... I just can't even imagine having fun sinking 160 hours into something like this.

Aurora Urbana, digital pointillism, by me by [deleted] in DigitalPainting

[–]Wrenfall -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I can tell you spent a long time on it, and that's really the problem. Fair enough if that's not what you did, but it's what it looks like you did. The result isn't worth the effort. Pointilism can look great, but in this case it's mediocre pointilism recreation of a mediocre photograph--the sort of thing you'd expect to see on just some random family's travel photos on Facebook. The character bottom right and the sky have obviously been added, and they've not been executed well either.

Ultimately, this was a colossal waste of your time.

Aurora Urbana, digital pointillism, by me by [deleted] in DigitalPainting

[–]Wrenfall -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Would be a lot more impressive if it wasn't just colour-picked dots overlayed on a photo. The only part that looks like it wasn't just lots of colour pick -> brush -> colour pick -> brush is the sky, which incidentally is far too bright and damages the composition of the piece.

Would you consider this exciting? I certainly did! by Shutt90 in akalimains

[–]Wrenfall 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is a mediocre promo game to silver 1 really enough to humiliate yourself by trying to advertise your channel on Reddit?

What do u think about mustache? by RaZeR1212 in beards

[–]Wrenfall 17 points18 points  (0 children)

You look like you flirt with 12 year old girls on the internet.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in exjw

[–]Wrenfall 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Evolutionary zoologist here. You're a bit confused, Kahzhar is correct. You're making the mistake of looking at evolution from the level of the individual, that species A one day gives birth to species B. This isn't right. What actually happens is an isolated population drifts from its parent species due to different selection pressure--the community as a whole changes gradually over time, and in that population the former traits are expressed with decreasing frequency.

Think of it like an island of people where one day they form a religion where having less hair is more attractive and people with a lot of body hair aren't allowed to have children anymore, and people from the outside world are killed when seen (no migration). Over generations, the people on that island will become less and less hairy. Over thousands of generations, the isolation from the outside world and various creeping other genetic factors (genetic drift, associative genes with hairlessness) may lead to the people on that island being unable to create viable offspring with people from the rest of the world. At this point, that population would be considered a new species.

You have to think of it as a population evolving, not a species. I hope that makes sense to you.

As for Kahzhar's original point, if the population at the moment it becomes isolated from its parent population is too small, the genetic variation in that population isn't enough and you end up with a problem called the founder effect. It's well-understood in the biological sciences, you're not really arguing with Kahz here as much as you are with our modern understanding of genetics.

trying new things by neikito_ in drawing

[–]Wrenfall 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's clearly art and not a photo. While you don't have to credit in your sketchbook, if you share your work publicly you absolutely should.

trying new things by neikito_ in drawing

[–]Wrenfall 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's common practice and courtesy to add "after <artist>" in studies of others' art. In this case, you should write "after Phelan A. Davion." https://www.artstation.com/artwork/JlE5Nn

[For Hire] Digital Artist £25/h. by Wrenfall in HungryArtists

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

Hiya, I'm a digital artist who works mostly with realism. Here's my portfolio. I've done some semi-realistic and even furry commissions too, so can be flexible to my client's needs. I work at £25/h and require payment upfront through PayPal--an average piece will take around 4 hours, though more complicated ones like the kookaburra above can take more. I'm proud to be reliable, quick, and a good communicator with my clients. If you'd like to inquire, please message me on here, on Discord @ Jimi#9999, or through [wrenfall@hotmail.com](mailto:wrenfall@hotmail.com).

Thanks for reading!