This is the personal badge I'll be wearing at Anthrocon when I'm not in costume (otherwise keep an eye out for Byzantine Tierney). I labeled it 'China', since it was easier to fit than Kittiara, SORRY IT'S CONFUSING
Oil on 4x6" canvas board. Painted over a week ago, but the oils only dried enough to take a scan recently. Painting tiny is hard, so this was also an exercise in economizing brush strokes. Must try more...
Oil on 4x6" canvas board. Painted over a week ago, but the oils only dried enough to take a scan recently. Painting tiny is hard, so this was also an exercise in economizing brush strokes. Must try more...
Category Artwork (Traditional) / Fantasy
Species Housecat
Size 800 x 650px
File Size 845.6 kB
Oh, whoa. Reading comments for the win - I couldn't figure out what was going on with her wings/forward hand until Vantid said "I love how her hand is flattening into the floor," and then I looked again and had my mind blown. That is ingenious - and I wouldn't say you "didn't quite pull it off;" you DID, and pretty brilliantly, but the lighting, the vivid colors of the painting on the wall, and the shadows on the floor keep it from jumping out at you that that's what's going on; the shading of her body where it's emerging from the painting has a lot to compete with. Didn't catch it at first, but looking back at it again, I have to say that's exactly what that would look like. I think the only thing that would make it more obvious would be a slightly bolder line delineating the edges of her emerging body where it's standing out against the wall, especially down the left side of her right arm where the levels really want to blend together with the wall in sunlight, but that would be inserting an inaccuracy, and...no. Oh, wait! Same thing, but at the line where the wall meets the floor - it wasn't immediately obvious that we're looking into a 90-degree corner, and shadow DOES tend to collect in corners a bit. That would help it pop out a bit more - the division line in the pool of sunlight is very slight. But this is so, so awesome. :D
Also, I'll see you at AC! I may even have the nerve to say hello this time! :P
Also, I'll see you at AC! I may even have the nerve to say hello this time! :P
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