Have you ever walked through the forest and heard the beating of wings, but find no bird in sight? You think you see just the hint of movement in the green above, but you believe it was just a trick of the light?
Do not be fooled! She dances in the trees, the wings of a hundred birds dancing around her, but you will hear no song nor see a single flashing eye of thrush or wren. Her soul is a vicious one, for she has no mercy for other bloods. That mask...no one knows what lies behind it, whether it is the grotesque countenance of death or the greatest beauty you could ever reach for. Perhaps it is to look into the grasp of immortality? Or maybe your soul would be sucked out and lost in an abyss neither man nor spirit has dared to gaze toward.
When you next hear wings but see none, be sure to hurry from the forest...for such an encounter is not worth your life.
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"The existance of slash tells us two things. Firstly, that the internet is a magical, wonderful place, full of strangeness and beauty." "Secondly, bitches is crazy."
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LIFE IS SO PRETTY!
As I've said in IMs, this is a really wonderful piece. She has such a lovely flow and mysterious atmosphere to her with that tinge of dark mystery. The translucent colors especially in the gradients of her wings and the feathery/faerie wing design are really unique!
However, to me this still has a sense of being an unfinished piece because of the lightness of the top left side. I have a feeling you were going for very pale perhaps even glowing hair, but it seems as if that side lacks the refined detail of the rest of the image due to the unfinished blocking in of the hair (especially around the ends which seem kind of blocky which really messes with the flow of the piece, in my opinion). The pale hair on the white background of the outside also makes it get lost and therfore doesn't lead my eye all the way across the piece like it should, especially since the background behind the hair is also a paler blue and lacks the interruption of the purple patterning around the rest of the piece which also helps to draw your eye into that lovely flow.
One way to fix this is to add light accenting with a pale purple outline in certain places around the composition to help continue the pull of the flow daigonally and up and around the moon. Using a color pencil will also help you to refine the ends of the hair which interrupt the flow because of the way they don't end in a nice fine taper (which is a restriction of watercoloring. I know how hard those fine lines are to get especially when you have to paint the space in between instead).
Here's a bit of accenting I did in Photoshop. It's not as crisp and neat as an actual color pencil would be though. [link]
OR you can continue the purple blotting of the background within the negative space between the hair since it stops so abruptly in the original. This would add contrast and pop those pale strands right out, as well as making the background more continuous in that area and working with the flow of composition.
Like so: [link]
OR do both and have a bit of blotting AND outlining which I think works best to bring emphasis back to the left without getting rid of your glowiness. [link]elusion-fix3.jpg
Whew that was alot! Hopefully I'm not too annoyingXD But I wouldn't be leaving this much of a comment if I didn't have faith in this piece being one of your best I want you to make it even better than it is since the potential is there, in my humble opinion.
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Women are sweet and girls are honey,
But beat your meat and save your money
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"The existance of slash tells us two things. Firstly, that the internet is a magical, wonderful place, full of strangeness and beauty." "Secondly, bitches is crazy."
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LIFE IS SO PRETTY!
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If they can put a man on the moon, why can't they leave him there? [link]
However, to me this still has a sense of being an unfinished piece because of the lightness of the top left side. I have a feeling you were going for very pale perhaps even glowing hair, but it seems as if that side lacks the refined detail of the rest of the image due to the unfinished blocking in of the hair (especially around the ends which seem kind of blocky which really messes with the flow of the piece, in my opinion). The pale hair on the white background of the outside also makes it get lost and therfore doesn't lead my eye all the way across the piece like it should, especially since the background behind the hair is also a paler blue and lacks the interruption of the purple patterning around the rest of the piece which also helps to draw your eye into that lovely flow.
One way to fix this is to add light accenting with a pale purple outline in certain places around the composition to help continue the pull of the flow daigonally and up and around the moon. Using a color pencil will also help you to refine the ends of the hair which interrupt the flow because of the way they don't end in a nice fine taper (which is a restriction of watercoloring. I know how hard those fine lines are to get especially when you have to paint the space in between instead).
Here's a bit of accenting I did in Photoshop. It's not as crisp and neat as an actual color pencil would be though.
[link]
OR you can continue the purple blotting of the background within the negative space between the hair since it stops so abruptly in the original. This would add contrast and pop those pale strands right out, as well as making the background more continuous in that area and working with the flow of composition.
Like so: [link]
OR do both and have a bit of blotting AND outlining which I think works best to bring emphasis back to the left without getting rid of your glowiness.
[link]
Whew that was alot! Hopefully I'm not too annoyingXD But I wouldn't be leaving this much of a comment if I didn't have faith in this piece being one of your best
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"The love of beauty is but the soul's remembrance of what it once knew before it was encased in flesh."
| My Etsy | My Website |
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"The love of beauty is but the soul's remembrance of what it once knew before it was encased in flesh."
| My Etsy | My Website |
its...so.. pretty.
i was mistakened to think that this was one of your rare deviations that doesnt include wings or feathers. not that im complaining.
beautiful work.
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