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Floating Rock

Published: Mar 30, 2018

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digital floating island islands milo rock paint_tool_sai floating_islands skywaysky floating_rock

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I honestly don't really like how this turned out?

But oh well?

It's definitely not what I had in my head
I really hate it when that happens
You have a really neat art idea and it looks absolutely PERFECT in your head and then it doesn't turn out like you expected it to be

But to be fair this is literally my first time drawing rocks, grass, trees, clouds, and just everything besides Milo. I kinda like how I drew the tree?
But I think the huge problem here is I didn't exactly keep a consistant style.

Milo doesn't really match the background because he's more smoothed out instead of more rough like the background is.

I did draw him first and a more smooth-realistic type shading style is how I paint, but I couldn't do it for the background.

I even tried different tutorials but none of them made sense to me.

If you could help me out with this that would be great!
And a critique would also be awesome since I really want to improve!

Thanks!

Milo belongs to : SkywaySky

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2569x3212px 3.3 MB

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Sevastianos-Ntzokas

Apr 2, 2018

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Well to begin with don't tell to yourself you don't like how this turned out.
You should instead say "I can make it better" or "I see some things that go wrong and will improve them next time".

Personally I really love the coloring here. Bright colors and bright mood <img src="e.deviantart.net/emoticons/b/b…" width="15" height="15" alt="

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Yeah see that the outcome isn't pleasing here but it isn't bad either.

For example, the middle right cloud is really nicely done, gives great atmoshpere, but the rest of them seem hasty and that you didn't know exactly how to light them. Especially the top cloud seems to have some paint brushes off the shape of the cloud.

The tree: Really nice and cool lighting on the top of the tree,but again when you see the roots seems like you didn't know exactly how to tie those roots to the ground effectively. As well as the water flowing from the back rock seems strange.

All those things though are a matter of practice. next time you will do them better, the next even better until you perfect them <img src="e.deviantart.net/emoticons/b/b…" width="15" height="15" alt="

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From what I can see you have a good sense of colour and composition, nice aesthetics and just need to practice your technique! It is something a bit time consuming but really worth it!

Again really nice piece and keep up the amazing job!
Cheers!