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[Frost Blown Hill]

Icy Clouds

Like staring at clouds on a lazy summer's afternoon, this image can conjure up many different interpretations within the design itself.

This piece, while quite basic in concept has certainly given a good view to how it can expand from something quite small, almost reminiscent of various parts of one of the symphonies in Fantasia, by Disney.

I can certainly see some icy flowers in there and perhaps even the beginnings of a crystalline dragon of white and blue, slowly emerging from an icy chrysalis of a cave entrance...

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EchoRun responds:

*grins*

Yes, I like how much you can see in fractal images too. I have a few saves that look like a real mess but the longer I look at them the more I see, just like looking at clouds...

Thanks for the review. :)

[Jeff]

Great shadowing

A lovely little piece that has so much more than a casual glance will allow you to take on board - I love the fact that the character itself puts the colours into perspective and focuses the whole piece, while the background remains in soft focus.

The shadows that it casts are brilliant, again the soft focus comes into play wonderfully , although a little work could be done to get the angles right - the light source will probably be coming from off centre of the character, otherwise you wouldn't get this amazing background colour. Rotating it slightly would certainly bring an extra dimension to the work.

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[Loneliness in Blue]

Interesting texture

The texture of the background reminds me of a pastel effect. It's a nice blend of the blues, but I would suggest that you spend some time making it look more blue - lose the white, it doesn't help the situation ;)

Of course, I think it would look better if you got rid of the tri-colour effect all together and made it just blue.

The three buildings to the character's right look a little too uniform for my liking - architecture is rarely like that, so throw in something different ;)

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Insanimation responds:

Yeah, I see that you mean about the buildings. Thanks :)

[Seaside Sunrise (Colored)]

Basic

For my liking, this piece is just a little too basic - there is not enough detail in the artwork for it to really catch my eye, as I prefer something that's going to jump out of the page and scream that the artist has really put some long hours into this to create. Sadly, this one has a very quick and simple feeling about it.

The shading requires more work - there would be some sort of halo effect around the right hand edges of the tree canopy,a s the sunlight reflecting off the leaves would give a scatter, which would immediately improve the detail for the better. Perhaps making the piece a little bigger would also assist, as with a slightly bigger canvas to work with, you can find more inspiration for additional detail?

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[Mike (colour)]

Psychedelic

I think I used to have a pair of shorts in these colours ;)

A wonderfully abstract explosion of colours. The wonderfully bright summer shades, combined with the patches of black look quite surreal and I love the depth that you've managed to encapsulate in the image with the way that the image appears to run off down a tunnel into the top right corner.

Did you create the background separately and then work the black over the top, or did you do it the other way around. The blue and cyan circles on the left look as if they were purposefully drawn after, but then the arch in the middle at the bottom looks like the detail is just picking out background colouring at random. Superb!

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NEVR responds:

Done in Photoshop, I put a black layer over a white layer and cut out the details, which resulted in the black and white version of this piece. Then I painted in the colour underneath and played about with it a bit... blurred certain bits, etc.

It's really very simple in theory, but it took a while because it was all drawn with a laptop touchpad.

[Colin]

Just like we used to make :)

When I was at school as a kid (We're talking almost 20 years ago now, WTF?!) we used to do pictures like this - coloured background in wax crayon, then paint over the top in black poster paint. Next day, take a matchstick, or other blunt wooden implement and scratch out the detail you want, which is then picked out in many colours.

But this is much more! It's got a reflection, it's got degrees of focus, between Colin himself and the background and it's got a hell of a lot more skill than a seven year old can produce in school :P

Man, you're one underrated artist - do you do any otehr styles, or just the psychedelic shadow puppets?

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[dreamy cloud]

Doctor Who

Kind of reminds me of the time travel sequence in either the Tardis in Dr. Who or in the more obscure Bill & Ted films :P

The cloud-scape has too much purple in it for my liking. I think that the addition of either more colours (less black and white), or thinning out the purple for a more blue approach will make it more cloud like.

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kiwi-kiwi responds:

I originally went for the blue approach, but I settled for this one in the end because I liked the outcome more.

As for the Doctor Who resemblance, I guess this would look a whole lot better if I added some depth, thank you for the idea.

[Carrot Clock's Father's Day]

Nice

Not a bad image of the two Carrot Clock, particularly the look on the face of the the son - very excited / loving.

I'd have suggested that there is more that can be done for the image, with a lot of work required on the background, to make it look more like a 'family day out' image and then give more emphasis to the characters themselves by this.

Shouldn't the hands be orange? I thought that was a rule of the clock crew, to have hands the same colour as what they were?

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[Dark Ram Demon]

Hmm

Well, it's a good attempt at the drawing of the sheep's skull, as it's a very diccicult shape to master, with all the holes and contours.

I think that the shapes of the wings need some more work - 'lightning bolts' don't tend to work, and it would look better to have a draconic feel to that sort of wing, as it tends to be the demonic wing of choice.

Decent work on the shading and a good use of the red, though I would suggest perhaps using a little less, just to pick out the highlights.

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[Star Fairy]

Not your best

A shame that you got a little carried away with the background of this piece - a few too many stars and perhaps a little over eager with the spray can tool. Still, let's not dwell on this too much. Perhaps darken that area down a little and pick out one or two, using a corona effect around them, to make use of the background.

The shooting stars look good, as does the fairy. A nice try to pick out the gossamer like wings that this creature has and a good use of this corona effect. Perhaps using a moon would assist with the lighting effects in this piece?

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EchoRun responds:

Ah, such is the over enthusiasm of a gal with a new toy... *sprays stars everywhere*

Thanks for the review.