[jailja]

Greetings all. My first post here, so please be gentle.



I am terrible at scetching people, so I had to take the shortcut and use a photo original of a woman posing. Allthough I am happy with the outcome (specially the lightning), there are some obvious places on the picture that aren't working as intended: the plant in the front is a bit plain, and the bushes on the right side are somewhat... broken.

Any comments?

[faeklone]

The only tip I can give you to make this thing turn out awesome. YOu used photo reference to make the girl in the water. Keep using it instead of making things up and your picture will turn out great. IE do some research about where you think she is in the world, the kind of plant that live there, and more photo references with which you can use to add to the picture when you get back to painting it again.
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[BlackStar]

I personally wouldn't change anything. Looks pretty cool.

[jailja]

Thanks for comments. And faeklone, that is a good tip.

[x]

for a WIP, this looks very promising. like you said, the lighting looks great. the only crit` i have is with regards to the obvious smudge effects in the water to the lower right, as well as that one particular brush you used a few times for the falling water and a bit of the greenery. these seem to subtract from the artistry of the overall piece. i'd love to see it when it's finished.

[jailja]

[jailja]

I tried to fix this pic too. Here is the result.



I dropped the idea of painting the plant again (left bottom corner), so I stucked a few boulders there. Lazy...

I tried to enhance the lightning too, because it seemed to me (after staring it enough long) that it was too "pale" or something.