Fiona and Sha

[pyraxis]

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Dunno what to say. It's me and Sha, sometime near the end of Water Song, I guess.

...I look a lot older than I thought I did. I'm only seventeen summers.

Comments

[yonjuunana.livejournal.com]

Wow, this looks excellent. I think you did really well on the faces, especially Fiona's expression. Is this after you made the changes?

My only critique is that at first I thought Sha was holding something white in his hand, like a rock or something, instead of it just being Fiona's shirt there. When I look at the full-size image, it looks like the shadow under his hand gets a little bit lighter towards his fingers, and it keeps coming across as reflected light and making the negative space look 3Dish. Hope that makes sense.

[pyraxis]

Glad you like it. Yeah, this is the changed version. I probably should have stuck up a comment to say so.

I see what you mean about Sha's hand. That's what I get for sneaking in a sharpen filter halfway through downsizing it to 800 pixels high. I'm not that happy with the hand's position anyway, so I might try totally repainting that bit. His hand was supposed to be relaxed, but it looks too purposeful, like he's clenching it around something, I think. Might make it flat against Fiona's chest or have him actually holding her shirt instead.

[pyraxis]

This is all working up to making a Water Song project on Behance. I discovered the place through work and made an account there, and then had an attack of disappointment, trying to pick out what work to put up and seeing that my stuff doesn't really have a coherent visual theme or style. Maybe it's because I'm switching media so much, but I really want to get some pieces together that don't look haphazard and disorganized.

It might be good exposure for Space Explorer as well. It's like DeviantArt for pros.