Advice for this scene/landscape?
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Topic: Advice for this scene/landscape?
Posted By: Introduction
Subject: Advice for this scene/landscape?
Date Posted: 09 September 2015 at 10:51am
So I'm a bit stuck on this:
I've been working on this on-and-off for the past month. Someone commissioned me to make this for another person's birthday, which has long since past, but I still need to finish this piece and all. However, I'm sorta kicking myself at the size of it and everything... plus I don't really know how to move on. Tree's have been my bane. I cannot figure out how to get a nice leafy effect going on a small scale, let alone a larger one. Bark texture is a huge pain for me too... I've been looking up how people have done trees here but it's still lost on me, haha. I still have to texture the water, grass, and sand too... I have zero clue how to approach that. I feel like going super simple wouldn't be so great. The squirrel is also something I've had trouble with. I've been good about keeping roughly to Dawnbringer's pallet, but I can't figure out how to shade the squirrel without making him blend into the tree. I'm not terribly keen on outlining things too as I haven't outlined anything and that'd make the squirrel stand out too much. The pink blob that is the character is something I already know how to do, so I don't really need advice for him unless there's something odd about him aside from his monotone blobiness. I just haven't detailed him yet because I've been streaming making this piece and I needed to keep the character anonymous so the person this is for doesn't figure out who it is... also said person is fairly well known in my social circle, so I can't let anyone who watches me know either, haha. Advice, C+C, comments, whatever all super appreciated. I've been feeling bad about not finishing it and I want to try and get it done before the end of this month. I'm really fortunate the person who commissioned me has been super chill about this... Thanks! |
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Posted By: jalonso
Date Posted: 09 September 2015 at 11:37am
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It looks like a decent base overall.
The raccoon already proves you can handle it all. Search the gallery for tree examples and conquer that on its own ignoring everything else since the tree you say its the toughest part. Once you're ok with that everything else will fall into place. Sometimes taking a bigger scene and working on items seperately can make the project manageable. skeedles has great examples in his gallery. ------------- |