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Original on left: Falling Sunlight

(Actually painted December 21, 2007)

New version on right: Smoke


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Tools: ArtRage 2.5, tablet, SAME crappy computer
Time: Four or five hours? Can't remember what the old one was. Probably 1-3 hours.
- also, shows how my idea of 'normal time to spend painting' has changed, as this was supposed to be similar effort/time

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1. All Digital Paintings, Drawings, Pixel Art, 3-Dimensional, Vectors, and Vexel images

Concept: Semi-oriental, goddess, incense, smoke and eddies. Wings of grey, or is it a cloak? Pale and shadowy...

Changes and Improvements:
- confidence. The first time I painted that picture, I wasn't sure enough to actually put the original up and cropped it a bit, so it was less abstract. I also didn't dare say exactly what I was aiming for (that the scarf should be wings, for example, and that there were leaves rising out of the smoke)

- discovered the range of colour available, and therefore find it very hard to stay with a limited colour scheme :giggle: But I'd say my colour sense hasn't changed much (it was always one of the things I was most confident in)

- proportions. The ability to draw the human figure. I deliberately (as far as I could) stylised the older version to try and minimise the atrocity of my proportions, but... :shrug: Frankly, pick on any part of the new version - hips, shoulders, head, chin - and it will be better drawn.

- eyes, mouth and hands. Always tricky, but FAR better now (on the hands, I drew them, they are both visible, but were hidden later by the 'necessary' flow of smoke and dress...)

- use of ArtRage and its effects, mostly what tools re available (the new version used pencil for sketching and colouring, paint, thinned paint, glitter, all three palette knives, spraypaint/airbrush tool - the old version used thick paint and the soft palette knife.)

- composition. Actually, I refer the space in the old version, but I was concentrating far more on the figure here, I guess, as that is what I had improved the most in.

- facing the other way... because she is. Also, I thoguht it was 'new vs Old' not 'old vs New' and it looked much better with both facing inwards.



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!Aseamlessbond May 2, 2009
This is nice to see! You really have improved on what was not a bad pic! Just goes to show what a little bravery and self critique can achieve. :D :hug:

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~Flynn-the-cat May 2, 2009  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Thank you! Yeah, my old work annoys me now, because ...well, it's old :D So I enjoyed the chance to do this. I'm glad to hear it worked

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!Aseamlessbond May 2, 2009
It did. :D

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~thr33dots May 1, 2009
this is really cool

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~Flynn-the-cat May 1, 2009  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Thank you!

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