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Oooh, I like the ambiance of this piece! The muted and blue tones create a spooky feel, and paints that superficially beautiful deer in an ethereal and sinister light. It's anatomy is great, I love how you've shown the back leg folding. The eyes themselves are flat, which is certainly an intentional point (a good one for the effect), but the skin/fur around the eyes also feels flat. It would add to the gaze if the form of the eyelids and brows were rendered, adding to the contrast of natural shading to void eyes.
You have a good mix of grasses in the foreground, it syncs together well so none stick out, while remaining recognizable. The background feels unorderly and wild, which implies the deer is in an obscure place, great mood setting
You have a good mix of grasses in the foreground, it syncs together well so none stick out, while remaining recognizable. The background feels unorderly and wild, which implies the deer is in an obscure place, great mood setting
Comment ID 108948
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Aw, thank you very much! It certainly was a fun experiment, I've been meaning to play with tone settings and mood lighting for a while now. I kinda felt the same way about the face, in hindsight I do wish I went back and rendered in the brows at least to give that empty look a bit more of a pop. I'm glad you like the background as well! I spent about 6~ hours 3-D rendering the background Flowscape, it was actually the inspiration of the image. After rendering the background I actually painted the deer over it, then painted in the foreground while blending the background to have that kind of effect. Shading and lighting was also by hand and came after. It probably would of saved me time if I'd done it all by hand, however I wanted this piece to be as far from my usual comfort zone as possible, and I actually enjoyed myself better modeling a 3-D background.
I do definitely think I'm going to stick with this style, and I'll definitely keep in mind your advice. Thank you very much for your comment! It was insightful.
I do definitely think I'm going to stick with this style, and I'll definitely keep in mind your advice. Thank you very much for your comment! It was insightful.
That sounds like an excellent way to approach the piece, I originally got flowscape so it could assist me when designing areas that would be seen multiple times in my story, as it will be a comic. It certainly worked out here, which makes me a bit excited for using it myself. I look forward to seeing more of your work
The biggest suggestion I can give is to not go into it wanting to make a singular scene unless you need a specific reference, but rather bring something to life and allow yourself to get multiple scenes from it.