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Character: Brutus
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After the last image I thought I had found the magic formula to find what I liked. I discovered--and always rediscover--that I have found nothing at all.
Still, I made one important discovery here. Trying to recreate the previous image, I started my color expedition using a single-color wash. After trial and error--the mood was feeling too flat--I discovered the utility of a multicolor wash. It allows you to combine moods, to almost create different scenes within a picture--and I think the melting cities function as a mini-scene. Anyway, once I used that multicolor wash, I was able to feel I was on solid footing.
I also learned, thanks to Pyronite, the importance of adding littles (or micros, or tinies) into a scene. I was going to leave them out. Not because I didn't want them, but because I just didn't think they were important. Wrong. I think they add something almost always. It's always nice to see small people scurrying around a giant's toes or something.
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CarpoGryphonCharacter: Brutus
COMMISSION NOTES
After the last image I thought I had found the magic formula to find what I liked. I discovered--and always rediscover--that I have found nothing at all.
Still, I made one important discovery here. Trying to recreate the previous image, I started my color expedition using a single-color wash. After trial and error--the mood was feeling too flat--I discovered the utility of a multicolor wash. It allows you to combine moods, to almost create different scenes within a picture--and I think the melting cities function as a mini-scene. Anyway, once I used that multicolor wash, I was able to feel I was on solid footing.
I also learned, thanks to Pyronite, the importance of adding littles (or micros, or tinies) into a scene. I was going to leave them out. Not because I didn't want them, but because I just didn't think they were important. Wrong. I think they add something almost always. It's always nice to see small people scurrying around a giant's toes or something.
OTHER Brutus Images
Category Artwork (Digital) / Macro / Micro
Species Reptilian (Other)
Size 842 x 820px
File Size 1.04 MB
In my experience macro images especially ones that are in cities are the ones that suffer the worst when you leave out the tinies. It doesnt just help fill out the picture its also id say pretty mandatory if your drawing a city and your seeing it at such a big scale. Plus not as much fun to just smash a empty city up
*nods nods*
"Give people what they want to see!"
I've been reading macro stories, trying to figure out how I'd want to approach writing one, and it strikes me that the proper way to handle it is to-- at every chance you get-- draw attention to size, or compare size, or make size a big deal. Every major event should revolve around somebody growing or shrinking voluntarily or against their will, or meeting a giant or what-have-you.
Thank you!
"Give people what they want to see!"
I've been reading macro stories, trying to figure out how I'd want to approach writing one, and it strikes me that the proper way to handle it is to-- at every chance you get-- draw attention to size, or compare size, or make size a big deal. Every major event should revolve around somebody growing or shrinking voluntarily or against their will, or meeting a giant or what-have-you.
Thank you!
For me I seem to lose the the sense of folks living in the environment once they're out of shot. At larger sizes these static objects almost feels like models or some other substitute, without those little signifiers of life. Plane trails, car lights are good ones now that I think about it. Cut ins work really well too, but perhaps at the cost of cluttering a piece!
1) That's very interesting...I don't think I get that sense myself, although it's instructive to know that others do
2) CUT-INS!!! I was wondering what those things were called. Assuming you mean the little bubbles that show a section of the scene magnified in order that you can see faces, poses, etc.
I've only experimented with cut-ins three times if I can recall. My usual impulse is to construct a scene in such a way that you capture everything in one unified composition. I wonder if there isn't more room to play around with that form, though...
2) CUT-INS!!! I was wondering what those things were called. Assuming you mean the little bubbles that show a section of the scene magnified in order that you can see faces, poses, etc.
I've only experimented with cut-ins three times if I can recall. My usual impulse is to construct a scene in such a way that you capture everything in one unified composition. I wonder if there isn't more room to play around with that form, though...
I'm equally interested to know that you don't lose that sense, perhaps it's my lack of imagination. In that same vein, makes me wonder if you feel like those little "life pointers" fluff up a piece too much. In my mind they're instant little camera angles for my mind to flip to and confirm "yup. they're certainly quite big."
Cut-in is absolutely something I came up on the spot, so I must stress that you direct all press enquiries to me regarding usage of this term going forward. Royalties would be lovely. And yeah, I'm particularly drawn to the one you did in "missile blazing shotgun skirmish", really neat way to "unify" the composition as you've put it. Gets me noggin joggin'.
Cut-in is absolutely something I came up on the spot, so I must stress that you direct all press enquiries to me regarding usage of this term going forward. Royalties would be lovely. And yeah, I'm particularly drawn to the one you did in "missile blazing shotgun skirmish", really neat way to "unify" the composition as you've put it. Gets me noggin joggin'.
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It's very interesting that your mind works like that. The camera angle notion is super cool.
There are really two answers that I could give. The first answer is that more often than not I end up modifying an image in my mind myself, so it doesn't necessarily matter very much what is or isn't in the original. In my youth I had a dinosaur book that I liked to read, except I thought the dinosaurs were too small, so I went ahead and thought up reasons why they'd be a lot bigger than the dumb scientists said they'd be. What could the scientists really know?!
And the second answer is there to modify the first. These days, I tend to pay more attention to technical details, like the way somebody drew a hand or a curve or an eye. Also these days I don't modify many images in my head. When I am inspired by other art I essentially just go right over to a sketchbook or something and use what I've just seen as fuel to help me figure out how to draw stuff that I like.
I really like the term cut-in, so I will be happy to give you all the credits, plaudits, and secret chests of underground gold that you deserve for creating it.
And thanks! I forgot that missile blazing shotgun skirmish even existed. XD
It's very interesting that your mind works like that. The camera angle notion is super cool.
There are really two answers that I could give. The first answer is that more often than not I end up modifying an image in my mind myself, so it doesn't necessarily matter very much what is or isn't in the original. In my youth I had a dinosaur book that I liked to read, except I thought the dinosaurs were too small, so I went ahead and thought up reasons why they'd be a lot bigger than the dumb scientists said they'd be. What could the scientists really know?!
And the second answer is there to modify the first. These days, I tend to pay more attention to technical details, like the way somebody drew a hand or a curve or an eye. Also these days I don't modify many images in my head. When I am inspired by other art I essentially just go right over to a sketchbook or something and use what I've just seen as fuel to help me figure out how to draw stuff that I like.
I really like the term cut-in, so I will be happy to give you all the credits, plaudits, and secret chests of underground gold that you deserve for creating it.
And thanks! I forgot that missile blazing shotgun skirmish even existed. XD
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