Hanging Tree Dryad

[moirae]

Let's give this critique thread a whirl then.

This is how it has changed based on feedback from elsewhere, early comments about scaling meant the hanged knight and skinny legs were left behind. Most recent iteration at the bottom.

[Mulcimer]

Heya! You gave me some pretty awesome feedback on my creature so I wanted to pay it forward.
I did a quick over paint of your latest iteration of the Dryad!

I absolutely love the design of this creature, very well done. I would say focus a little more on your composition, my eye gets a little lost looking around at all the work you've done to make the background stand out.

I added in some darker lighting at the bottom of the picture and in the background. Also I've highlighted some of the dryad's features so the Dryad pokes out a little more.

Definitely focus on your lighting and color usage, skin/flesh likes to take on some of the color of it's environment. I would want to bring the attention to the creature and not so much the background since the piece is focused on the dryad.

Very nice work!

[moirae]

Okay, better or worse? Added green / blue tints to her skin and darkened some of the nearer branches.

[Mulcimer]

This looks great! I love the color saturation you worked into the skin and the shadows.
The body could stand a little more shading around the bends and folds if I'm being picky but otherwise the composition is really sound!

Awesome work!