Stop f**ukin around and concentrate.

reflection of warm light from sun and bolts? yes no maybe so?

I was thinking something along these lines:

Thanks to the God of Lighting Knowledge lawrence for the helpful suggestion.  I also got rid of the sunset, which is for the best.  Added another color to address Aleiiav's crit as well.

Wow @ 0 @ That looks so AWESOME! I love the lightning bolts and the reflections on the clouds. Also, Kraken looks so cute for some reason, haha. Mm, snack.

Ha, first post :).

I just had to say, I've been following your thread for a while, it's looking fantabulous!

Oh man, you took Buloght's forumvinity, I'm jelaous!

ps: looking good!

Huzzah! An update!

Bah! You're crazy. It's stormy water, a stormy sea. It works fine, IMO.

The water is looking amazing too me. I do wonder if halfdemon has a point about the boat not being affected by the water so much now? I think the color change is marginal, either way looks good.

@ sab, how about krakentastic?

I changed the colors back, with the exception of a brighter yellow, for now.  I'll worry about the colors at the end.  I'll see what I can do about both the kraken and the boat being affected more by the water.  I agree with you, Lar, It had a cartoony style to it, until I made a more realistic sea,  I'll dabble with the clouds at some point, probably.
As for now, here's a WIP of a sail!

yes, well it's either the water or everything else...i find too much of a difference between detail and cartoon style.. water alone it looks great..the characters are good too...

Liking the sail a lot. I will ask again, is the black gonna become a dark brown/red? *wink, wink*. I'll leave the sky comments for later.

Put that trophy back where you found it, young man.

We'll see, jal.  I'll be tweaking and playing around with it plenty, so it is a possibility.  It has just occured to me that without you suggestions this would be an entirely different piece.

Unless you'd prefer the vikings heading toward a castle atop a hill on a sunny day, yes, a very good thing.
I heterolove you jal.

I just want to add that although the sail is sweet, it seems to be in a different perspective than the boat.

The moon is a great added detail. The water looks even better than before. The sail looks fine to me. The oar thats just floating could use a little breaking up on the lineart. The bottom edge could use a bit of a broken line its too staight. The sky dithering is the only problem now. It does not quite match the rest. I wouldn't overdo the pixelling on the sky tho. Leaving it as white space to rest the eye is fine here.

Its finally at the point where I find myself feeling generally satisfied with the piece.
Added some stars, redid the dithering on the sky, shaded the kraken with the darkest blue, finished (?) detailing the water.

If I have made any changes that you feel don't work, please point them out.


Edited by ThereIsNoCure - 02 October 2006 at 12:38pm

Its photobucket, but I often have problems logging in to the forums so I use a proxy, that may be where the problem lies.  Let me see if I can't fix that.

Lar, I think thats a remmant from when it was a more cartoony piece. You are right of course, but I don't think it detracts from the piece.
 
Cure, Looks great and complete, submit

i hate you and your mad skills

about time, prepare for another monthly top...  this time i predict 2nd place :D

wait in line, honey 

if you get second place or higher, you owe me fan art.  if not, i owe you fan art...  do you take the bet? 

*holds out hand and awaits shake to seal the deal*