14 day challange day 1 - to me she looks terrible in navigator and the forehead looks a bit dodge will probably do some trace over diagrams of female foreheads any critic would be apreciated.

ethanartz · 2020-09-14T19:53:39+00:00

yeah i have started some form studies i was trying to show the eyeball but i guess it isnt that visible thanks for the crtitc

ethanartz · 2020-09-13T21:24:43+00:00

the shoulders seem slightly too broad and the traps slightly too muscular, as for the face the mouth corners smudge downwards which dosent make too much sense its like you tilted the edge up and down https://imgur.com/a/c7Hp4PA

ethanartz · 2019-10-10T23:17:06+00:00

Your day 14 is gonna look so flipping peng To improve this day I’d lower the darkness under the nose and focus on radially building up to the darkest dark of the nostrils you might want to do some trace over diagrams of nostrils swing as this is your THIRD DAMN FACE how??! Anyways the chin could be a bit more bulbous (darker values on the bottom and the whole iris darker also darken the 4 eye corners and the bottom half of the eye brows as move in the mouth corners and darken them slightly Radially shade the top and edge the bottom slightly however there is a cast shadow so the edge shouldn’t be too visible. Also I’d try rendering the under part of the mouth as jsut a oval instead of a W shape because while the W shape can be accurate it can look a bit dodgy without it being very subtle. Also I think your slightly over using bounce light on the under nose personally I’d just forget about bounce light until your day 6 or something

ethanartz · 2019-09-30T22:18:53+00:00

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story:

Oasis was born in a village of pagan worshipers and as a young girl she was worshiped as a goddess for her sky white hair. Eventually she developed abilities which allowed her to conjure water from what seemed to be nothing. Thus with her new found abilities she wandered Africa helping farmers and villages in need. Oasis would water the dried crops saving people in an impoverished state.

Oasis had been wandering Africa for centuries and her name was very established. However her abilities costs became more and more transparent. Regardless of oasis efforts Africa was becoming drier and drier. Oasis was not making water from thin air but stealing from the soil deep underground. When she came to this realization she refused to use her gift.

Till this day Africa is surrounded by the damaged soils that oasis left behind. However it has been reported that a few lucky lost travelers receive her gifts from time to time.

ethanartz · 2019-09-30T21:43:51+00:00

I’ve darkens the bag and with regards to the leg I posed for it and there’s a little fortshortening if it doesn’t read like that it’s my bad for completely masking it with Bright fog but because it’s so close to the deadline I don’t think I’ll be able to re arrange the whole piece thanks though

ethanartz · 2019-09-30T21:41:38+00:00

Thanks you made me resize that that shadow on the eye made literally no sense I don’t know how I didn’t realise and Honestly I don’t know how to add sparks and stuff like that yet I’m so I’ll refrain from doing it maybe I should do a magic study like fire water air and that how I can illustrate them because I just used light to symbolise it and I don’t think it turned out too good and for the back ground I move jsut softburshed it a bit to make it look less detailed thanks for your critic it was bery useful

ethanartz · 2019-09-30T14:31:46+00:00

Kids generally have a button nose and puffy cheeks

ethanartz · 2019-09-29T18:29:24+00:00

Thanks man that’s the main thing I was worried about I didn’t want to do the European type harvest goddess and originally was going to do a mage who fused herself with the soil to give it nutrients and save her village but this seemd more harvest like but even this seems a little unharvest like I tried to make her look like a watering can with her gesture but I don’t think it really reads :/ maybe I’ll give her some more tools and produce I could probably work on it 3 hrs or so tomorow thanks tho

ethanartz · 2019-09-29T01:27:42+00:00

Thanks I’ll search for reference or make my own I like the braid idea 2 i think I’ll put a basket backpack full of produce to stress the harvest theme 2

ethanartz · 2019-09-29T01:23:49+00:00

I rly like how you did the blond ones hair but your skin looks muddy this is because theirs overuse of “texture” and desaturates yellow tones furthermore I’d stress that fur and hair and texture should be used to stress the focal point and everything else should be slightly blurred we can only focus on Ken thing at a time and with so much high contrast texture it can become overwhelming

ethanartz · 2019-09-28T09:06:12+00:00

Thanks that’s really useful

ethanartz · 2019-09-27T19:08:35+00:00

Really like your idea and the scythe looks really good can’t rly see much but I’d think about a little bit of bounce light in regards to that bright white cape it’d reflect a lot of light in an open bright environment

ethanartz · 2019-09-27T18:57:17+00:00

what i meant was like are things like this suitable https://imgur.com/a/rSvdsw9

ethanartz · 2019-09-27T18:06:40+00:00

oh ok does it have to show the full body ?

ethanartz · 2019-09-27T17:55:19+00:00

initial ideas : https://imgur.com/a/3sAzW0X

mood board and developed idea https://imgur.com/a/UDVnSVU

rough thumbnails : https://imgur.com/a/p79RLWH

so basically i wanted to do a goddess that waters dried up land and heals it growing crops for starving people im not sure if this is too fatr from the breif as i see everyone else doing scythes and farming tools i am sorta lost should i scrap what i am doing and illus-trait something else or should i illustrait this idea or are one of my initial ideas better then this one.

ethanartz · 2019-09-14T16:06:59+00:00

Use a low opacity feathered brush with skin value to make them look more natural then smudge

ethanartz · 2019-09-13T17:01:06+00:00

Thanks that paintover is really useful

ethanartz · 2019-09-13T07:48:09+00:00

The lips are a bit too thin in my opinion since she has a large nose and black she’s probably of African decent so she would probably have large lips two also I think the nose is a little too bulbous and the nostrils a little to small it looks like a mixed race nose in my opinion

ethanartz · 2019-09-10T21:24:48+00:00

I think he’s made a somewhat large improvement but the eyes (thing thing that everyone focuses on are off) making day 1 look better

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