Echoriel Art Blog

[castonia]

This is looking great I love how much progress you've made !

[malcom]

I personally feel that the colors are fine. You can maybe try desaturating the background a bit and see how you feel. So far so good though. Keep up the good work.

[echoriel]

@castonia thank you!

@malcom ye i think i will try to experiment with saturation and see what happens thx

[cedricgo]

Looking really good so far! I love how it all started more as a portrait and now you're turning it into a full scene.

[echoriel]

thanks!
Ye my intention was to do a quick one for instagram <_> and I ended up doing a whole new scene haha

[malcom]

good thing you did a whole scene instead. I like where this piece is headed.

[echoriel]

I've been procrastinating a bit lately so this one is moving slowly haha.
Soon im quitting my job and I will have slightly more room for manipulating my free time, yus :>

I made the background lighter in colour and tried to fade it more and I made the area on the first plane darker and shifted it towards blue hue more.
Repainted her shoulders again, repainted feathers AND im still trying to figure out them feet and toes.
Overall I think that i like the direction of where this is going so i'll need to make sure that i like the folds on this skirt and maybe I will add sumth around her hands area or\and feet coz I do have one idea.
And the end step will be to refine what should be refined and i wanna add some light shining through the leaves around this character.

[cedricgo]

My god, that's just incredible Julia!

My only feedback right now would be that the big toe on the foot closest to us looks a bit strange. I'm not quite sure why actually, but it looks slightly off to me. It might be just a personnal preference of mine, but I'd make her hair darker. I feel it would frame her face better and make it pop more.

Also, don't forget that she's surrounded by green pretty much everywhere, so I feel there should be some green bounce light on her, especially on the parts touching the ground and mabe the shadows. No need to be too obvious with it, but I think it would help make her fit into the scene even more.

Beyond that though, it's looking great. I really look forward to the final result!

[echoriel]

thank you, Cedric! ;>

Ye feet are looking weird, im still working on those haha.

and ye i know about bounce light but Id say that only some bottom parts of her cloth will be tiny bit greener (and i dont have that yet on this picture) and all the other parts i'd leave in this blue tint, i think... anyway, thanks! and i will look into it, coz right now whole clothing area feels like it doesn't belong here haha

[jc.aedo.o]

This is coming togheter super nice, I really have a tendency to rush pieces when doing personal work so it is good to see a more pacient artist work develop a piece in real time, I really think that most people dont realize the value in patience, really love the folds of the cape and the hands gesture!

[echoriel]

@jc.aedo.o thanks! Well, I am just too determined to finish this piece ( coz i never finish anything n im trying to change that) and push it as much as i can, but honestly, in the future i will definetly plan out things a bit more because otherwise so much time wasted haha ;D

Today I did a little study from couple of photos that i own, yes his facial features are not 100% symmetric.
I've read few pages about anatomy of the skull so doing these two heads was a bit different experience than usual.
Our of all the features i think mouth and cheeks are the hardest for me.

also what do you guys think about values? Should they be more drastic coz personally i dont mind it but i might be wrong, please hlep!

[cedricgo]

I like these portraits. The first one especially feels so expressive.

And I think that the values look fine. Maybe it's just missing a few strong higlights spots, but maybe it doesn't either. Well... that was helpful XD

[echoriel]

love the ending of your post
thanks, either way haha

[jc.aedo.o]

Those headshots studys are good, I can tell that you put more time on the front shot that in the profile, but the two look really good cause it is clear that you understand the planes of the face (something that I have retake the study lately). about values, I think maybe the eyes are a bit dark on the front shot and maybe you could check the values in the hair (maybe you can increase the contrast there), about the profile, it looks right but I wonder why the bottom of the nose is light in value (maybe there is a strong bounce light) however, super nice work.

[echoriel]

thank you for the feedback I appreciate it!
and yes, i did spend more time on the front shot.
Bottom of the nose has a light value because he was watching a tele as I was painting him and his side of the face has light value too coz we were skyping haha
Gotcha about the eyes and hair. I may go back in to fix it
I just really hate drawing hair, i don't understand it how to make it look alright without too many nuances.

[castonia]

i especially like the portrait without the hoodie, the only thing that bugs me is the neck, it looks a bit broken, but I guess that wasn't your main focus so you didn't notice, I tend to do that a lot. Do you have the ref for it btw? I see the drop shadow from the nose and It throws me off cuz I guess the lighting it coming from above and on the left (?) but at the same time the side of the nose and head didn't get affected and I'm just trying to figure it out.
BUT YES IT LOOKS GREAT, I'M JUST CURIOUS SORRY

[echoriel]

thank you!
Ye id agree that the neck looks weird (i'll try to fix it if I'll ever find this pic again). the entire pose was him kinda leaning back\side in his arms on the sofa. the light is top left and window light from the right. the room itself is pretty small as well.
I do have a reference haha, but i won't be able to find it now as i have too many of photos to go thru to find it again haha

[echoriel]

thank you everyone for your feedback, i tried to fix it as much as i could without wasting too much time on it
i hope that it looks better now

[cedricgo]

I think it looks great!

[lozzzliss]

I wish I still had the patience to blend skin that well! Very nicely done