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castonia · Jan '18

This one kinda took a different direction I feel like, I'm not really satisfied with the result, it feels dull, unfinished and like it's missing something, but I'm pretty much at a dead end so I'll call it finish and let it be as it is. PS HAPPY NEW YEAR YAY

castonia · Jan '18

Something in between the art challenge. Drawing mermaids is soo relaxing~~

dee-lov · Jan '18

Hey Castonia! Great stuff I see you submitting, its very adventurous! I've noticed that your works are looking great conceptually, but lack a bit of color execution, especially with your value range. Below I've greyscaled some of your work and then added some contrast filtering to show more what I mean.

To solve it you could really experiment with what makes you most comfortable. Greyscaling a painting first is a good route for learning and more solid assurance it will turn out great; but you could also do some in depth color studies.

Hope this helps! I love your mermaids and hope to see more

castonia · Jan '18

Thank you so much for the feedback, I just how bad my values are ( I knew before, but I actually saw just now). So I decided to take a step back and always start with greyscale .
This is the new thing I'm experimenting with. I was looking at some league of legends art and I saw the image in grey scale and it just blew my mind, so I'll be trying to work very detailed in greyscale 1st before going to color. But my problem with color is that I make it very muddy(mostly from color picking too much) and the other problem is that it just looks like I'm coloring a coloring book and I'm watching some utube videos to get some color knowledge but it's not going too well Any tips ?
PS. Sorry for the overwhelming comment >.<
here's the image S

castonia · Jan '18

My progress so far, reeeally excited about this piece
BEFORE:

After

castonia · Jan '18

Finished version ^w^

dee-lov · Jan '18

Dude that looks great!! and your colors are working together as well! keep pushing for detail and that will help push your improvement

castonia · Jan '18

So yeah I decided not to enter in any art challenges since I don't think I'm ready yet, but I keep drawing so that's good

castonia · Jan '18

Any tips so far ? >.<

castonia · Jan '18

So this is the final result, I really wanted it to look like a splash art, but I really struggled with colors and values . Any tips are highly appreciated ! Feedback is really important for me so that I can actually understand the mistakes I make. So yeah, this is where my skills pretty much end.