ART WAR I 2D I Nymph I wildiris

wildiris 2016-12-17 04:40:19 UTC #1

Name: Dana
E-mail: simplylgreen@gmail.com
Website: http://dana-velychko-cg-art.blogspot.com/?view=snapshot
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I am in the Fantasy team:) My first sketches

wildiris 2016-12-18 08:47:33 UTC #2

Here is the color concept. Nymph is the child of the nature, so I think there will be main summer colors-green, blue, brown and black.

tobin 2016-12-18 18:11:51 UTC #3

Interesting feel on this piece! It almost looks like 80s fantasy. Good work.

wildiris 2016-12-19 17:07:13 UTC #4

Thank you tobin) I also saw your sketches and they look very professional. Wish you luck on this competition, all the other skills to win you already have=)

wildiris 2016-12-20 11:19:43 UTC #5

I was so excited with this challenge, that didn't give the description and started to work) Why nymph? I live by the river and spend a lot of time outdoors, I like watching nature. I thought about this character.The pose and look didn't come suddenly, I have imagined her. Maybe nymph is not enough epic, but I hope to do the good work and to meet new interesting people. Thank you for this opportunity.I have many interesting ideas, but if I have already posted sketches of this character, I shall try my best with it.
Well I can do the stylish line and tone sketches, but I think I don't need them here. I need in the final a color image and all the details will appear when the main things will be on the right place. Texturing takes a lot of time and I like to paint fast. That's why I need to find all the basic things- composition, tone, drawing shape and color. When I have all this, I don't need to waste time on searchig what to do and paint fast. I have played with colors and made a color palett sketch. Now I can begin to paint.
The nymph is bloodless, so I think to do her as white as possible in this environment.

knetixhertz 2016-12-20 11:43:42 UTC #6

cool ^_^ can't wait to see the finished product

wildiris 2016-12-22 20:06:50 UTC #7

I have made more detailed drawing of the background and started painting of the character. There is a lot of time left, so I think the next thing I shall do will be the background.

knetixhertz 2016-12-22 23:12:45 UTC #8

now this is nice

wildiris 2016-12-23 08:35:41 UTC #9

knetixhertz thank you for the feedback)

wildiris 2016-12-25 11:10:51 UTC #10

I don't like to talk a lot about my project before I do something. Now I am ready to explain some things. In the classical painting nymphs are usually almost naked. But nudity is not allowed, so I decided to give her clothes and the surrounding.
Nymph is the soul of the tree. In winter she sleeps inside the tree. It's a part of the character. That's why I decided to add trees to the composition. Inside the tree trunk is water. And I have made her appearance close to the water and greenary in blue and green colors.
There many ways to bring depth in the texture. I have made the first painting of the background and then blurred it.

wildiris 2016-12-28 19:11:49 UTC #11

I am working with the background now. Illustration is the most diffcult part of this work for me, so I decided to do as much as I can now, because I don't know shall I have the time for this in February or not. While I am working with the background I am thinking about the character, it's not the final design. Here is the little update with the tree detail.

wildiris 2016-12-28 19:48:46 UTC #12

I shall be happy to get any feedback=)

wildiris 2017-01-03 15:40:24 UTC #13

I am still working with the background of the illustration, but the character is more important. So I decided to think about the dress design. Silk is the natural material and it can be. But for the breast part of the dress I think to do something like this.

yorieofthecastle 2017-01-03 15:45:55 UTC #14

Mate, I'd advise you to figure out the design of the character before you proceed with the illustration. It's not a good idea to make things up on the spot, especially when we have plenty of time to work everything out.

wildiris 2017-01-03 15:59:11 UTC #15

Thank you for the feedback. You know I need the whole canvas to be painted to see do I need more or less details in the character design, because a lot of them could be missing in the main scene.

yorieofthecastle 2017-01-03 16:01:03 UTC #16

Alright, but you do know we have to do a separate character sheet with the illustration, right? So the design needs to work well on its own first and then the environment can be adjusted.

wildiris 2017-01-03 16:09:27 UTC #17

Yes I shall do the views of the character later, that's why I am thinking about the dress design while I am am making all this dots-dots painting on the background)

wildiris 2017-01-07 17:10:25 UTC #18

I have made this photo few years ago and was inspired by it making hair.

I have spent a lot of time with head, but I am satisfied with it for now.

wildiris 2017-01-11 10:48:07 UTC #19

A lot of work left with the body and the background, but now I can work with the whole scene.

wildiris 2017-01-15 11:09:24 UTC #20

I was thinking about the heartwood and decided that her basic appearance concept must be something like this.

I wrote earlier that I don't need a detailed sketch for the painting. But views can be used for modeling, so I made them more detailed and added some anatomy.