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Title: Curious Water
Pixel Artist: Ciress  (Level 1 Rookie :: 10 points)
Posted: 12/19/2015 13:57
Statistics:  4 comments    0 faves    0 avatars

I actually did this a while back- hopefully some improvements have been made since, but I still enjoy looking back at this piece for getting me to try and work more with water.  It initially just started as a random little blotch of blue for the sake of playing with the water, and then it somehow developed into an image as I decided to keep working, lol.

Which reminds me that I need to try working more with the subject, and backgrounds in general.

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inphy (Level 7 Sheriff) @ 12/24/2015 14:36

Small edit

Regarding the water, sometimes less can be more. I took one color and just started floodfilling randomly to remove colors, and after a while the result started reading a bit more like water. I think what makes it hard to read as water is that the even a small puddle is basically a mirror, and you'd expect to see a reflection of some sort, generally a reflection of something else in the picture. When it's like that though, it's hard to connect it to being a reflection of anything, making it hard to read as water. "Busy" and colorful water is of course fine, but even in these examples you can see how the reflection helps understanding it as water.

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There are also three things I'm not sure what they are; is that a tree or a far away path? Is that a cliff or a ravine? Is that a shrubbery or something else entirely?

I also didn't quite understand the structure of the creature, I tried to outline it in black but I'm still not sure what's what.


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LeithGil (Level 1 Rookie) @ 12/19/2015 22:57

It's a little difficult to understand what the animal is. Maybe making it darker or something to make it stand out just a little. Otherwise it looks great to me!


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Ciress (Level 1 Rookie) @ 12/19/2015 20:18

Ah, thank you!
Color had been a part of my focus with this; continues to be, lol.

If I may, does it look unfinished because of some needed detail/transition areas with the grass?
 


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zozol32 (Level 1 Depressed) @ 12/19/2015 14:18

It looks unfinished, but colours are fantastic ! :v


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