About 5 days ago I made this WIP, then slightly updated it couple of times.

Would it be ok if I crop it, chande colours to night ones and add some waves, clouds and lightnings?

Edited by Finlal - 27 October 2014 at 1:36am

"Only new pixels allowed".
That's what I'm asking, actually.
I wouldn't ask if it was complete picture, but since it's only a WIP, it's discussible.

Assuming I can complete the challenge in time, I'm planning to make an animation within the 200*200 size limit where the whole scene is dark and then momentarily lit up by a lightning flash. Would it be okay if I expanded past 200*200 to have a second panel that shows the exact same thing, only paused on the fully-lit frame?

If not, I guess I could just have a link to an image or work something out with the animation.

Edited by Crimso - 27 October 2014 at 3:30am

I'm not sure I exactly follow what your idea is, but everything should fit into the 200 x 200 canvas. Nothing more.

If it exceeds the size limit, then the answer is no.

I haven't done much art recently, so I might attempt to this challenge. Might be a bit rusty though :| Going to edit this post with my progress for the next couple of days, as well as document some of my processes and thoughts with you all. Anyones welcome to share their thoughts about how they make art too :)

I kinda like the emotion that be can depicted by storms. And I want to play with this. To state the obvious, storms are ominously dark in atmosphere, they're frightening with their powerful winds, and on seas, their large strong waves. Not to mention the quick bursts of lightning that never provide light long enough to give you a little more comfort, creating short bursts instead, in turn creating shadows that weren't there before on an otherwise overcast day/night. Not to forget that lightning is accompanied by loud, thumping thunder that seems to come at you from every direction. It really is a fitting mood for something in a horror, or to depict the raw emotion some people fear.

I want to try and touch on the feeling of being alone. So I want add a human to my piece, this should help create a sense of scale as well as help viewers to connect to something within the picture. The emotions I want show from the character are sadness, a bit of angriness, tension, fear all from being alone, and if possible I'd like to also show positive emotion in courage to try and survive.

Aight, end of my random rant.

Started off by searching "Stormy seas" on google images. Here are my References so far:
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Edited by Damian - 27 October 2014 at 2:45pm

Ah, my favorite theme. Gotta do something.

hmmm, I attempted this, even did a WIP. But I don't think I'll have the time to finish :(

In my opinion, you allocate too little space for the storm and too much for not so relevant things. You could expand the window and just make things like chandeliers or carpets be partically visible from the sides.


Edited by Agent00X - 29 October 2014 at 10:03am

I hope this will help. :)
http://yarr.me/c/723/4/cabin-pron.jpg

UPDATE



Using the forums is great! I've put some more lines to where the bricks will be. Let me remind you that this is going to be a stone brick hallway, not a wooden one. I haven't put where the individual bricks will lie yet. I've added curtains for the window, a curved roof, and a carpet. This doesn't look perfect, but all I need to do now is find a good palette, and begin coloring.

My WIP so far

WIP so far. Thor smacking the Midgard Serpent. Not sure if i'll finish on time.

UPDATE



Should really get to the window, carpet, and curtains now.

That looks very nice fawful.
Just know that I, at least, had to zoom in just to see the BG colors.
At 1X I only see one.

@fawful, that's almost worse on those dark BG colors.
Looks like you do need some monitor calibration.

ps: What's up with your siggy? Need those removed?


Edited by jalonso - 01 November 2014 at 4:52pm

Way better contrast overall tho you might have gone too far in the contrast as I see on my monitor which is a Mac and so its lighter than Window screens.