Spiders, draft 6

[ellenmillion]

Successes:

~Radial shading. Total fluke, but I love it.
~Spiders. Creepy, but they work!
~Cracking ice. Wish I'd made it look deeper (shell of the world type thing), but it still totally works.
~Cracking planet. I had no faith in making this work, but I think I did!
~Overall Composition. Sometimes it all just comes together.

Failures:

~Diamonds. I need remedial jewel-inking lessons. I have some references, but translating them to something I can ink has proven beyond me. As linework goes, it's okay, but adding hatching, it just all falls apart. I may erase it digitally and stick with basic linework and REALLY minimal hatching on just a few facets.

Draws:

~Drew the moon lumpy! Hate hate hate lumpy moons! But saved it digitally by deleting the upper rim so it fades to white, which was even better than it would have been.

Comments

Feedback

[ysabetwordsmith.livejournal.com]

SQUEE! I am so loving this, from the sketch itself to the tutorial discussion. (I'd also love to get some stuff like this in the Grey School art classes.)

Radial shading is the surprise hit -- it *really* works, save for future reference. I also really like the shaded, faded moons. The shadows on the ice also work. Overall the montage effect looks great, very much the kind of thing I'd expect to see in a magazine.

The diamonds ... *wince* ... yeah, those died.

Re: Feedback

[ellenmillion.livejournal.com]

The wonderful thing about not having to supply an original is that it's safer to take risks! I can easily erase the diamonds and do the linework again on a print-out. I never would have chanced the heavy shading if this were a standard commission - and I never would have tried the radial lines, either. Totally an overall win. :)

Re: Feedback

[ysabetwordsmith.livejournal.com]

This does, however, raise a point that I've been pondering since you started this picture: will it be possible to get prints? Because I'd love to have a copy.

Re: Feedback

[ellenmillion.livejournal.com]

Oh, sure, I'd be happy to do a print when it's finished!

[pixiewildflower.livejournal.com]

Nifty cool!