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Melanie - week two

Here's the sketch I had done in class:

I didn't like it so I did a new sketch at home and rendered it: 

Since I'm more of an illustrator than a concept artist, I've been playing around with a colourful graphic version as well:

Week 2

So, I only just started coloring by the time class ended, but here is the progress I made last class--

week 2

ahhh!!! I forgot to post my progress at the end of class.
This was my progress at the end of last class

WIP Week 2 (Démie)

Hello :)

So here's where my project is going.

Here's the drawing. We (Mr. Vinh and I) spent some time during last class to fix an issue with the legs and boots position; I hope the look better now :)

I also took some time home to fix the sketch done in class (precising the lines, mostly) and put some "color sketching". 

Which brings me to a question: we see everywhere that we shouldn't use a perfect white nor black in a painting, to always put a little color into it. So far so good. But with a model such as this one, with black... many things(!), I understand that there's some respect to the value of the subject we have to think about, but as a ruff guide line (made to be broken), if black is 0%, an acceptable "black" on a painting would be what? like 5%? 10%? What would be the "line" not to cross (unless we're consciously breaking that rule) in this matter?

I remembered last minute that we had to do a sketch of the painting with a background (doh!), so here's the idea I had in mind: a solitary "warrioress" holding a yellow/orange flaming torch (in my angle, the sword is but a line with absolutely no interest, so I thought I might change it and "explain" the warm color with it), facing soldier of another clan, holding a blue flaming torch (which would explain the blue light)... 

Maybe I shouldn't try to explain the lighting in such an obvious/grotesque way, or maybe adding silhouettes would push the challenge to high, considering the time we have to complet this, I don't know if those are good ideas!!?! =S

Feedback: Mauricio, Stéphanie

HI Mauricio, the position of the shoes indicate that the horizon line is very low, the '' camera"" is almost at the floor level, then you can not have one foot in front of the other and right now It looks like she has the right leg longer than the left one. To get the effect you want, the camera should be at the higher level and looking down to the two boots ( See A), the perspective has the horizon line higher.
- Also you need to readjust the  shape of  the body, 2 legs and shorten left arm.

Hi Steph, The pose looks good, the head is nice. Just some adjustment for better contour of the figure. Ideally the right food should rotate more to the right for more natural pose but you may keep the actual angle as it is  too. We'll talk together later about your thumbnails.

Week 2 - Stephanie

Mauricio week 2

Feedback: Claire's

Your work is  coming nicely Claire. Good tones in overall.   To paint the subject you should feel & understand its basic form,  see it  in 3D.  Working that way it will be a lot easier to give it the better definition and  the 3D look.

Week 1 - Claire

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