Well I thought it was impressive that you'd attempt such a large piece, and I think it's a good effort. The way you've drawn your trees contrasts the animals in the snow so much in terms of shading and such. I'm not sure if it's a good or bad thing since it allows them to stand out, but it kinda looks awkward.
Thanks Amachi... it was definetely a large effort, like two hours just for the background... the trees have no real definite shading, and a problem that occured was when i had orignially created the background,it was soo small that a chickadee was as big as a medium tree... so i had to double the size by two, and i think that's why it looks so awkward now. i also had to cut out some of the background since it was WAY to big after i doubled it. at least nothing got distorted, since i sketch/skewed it...
original background
used background
So as you all can see, there's a big difference in image quality...
The trees look really weird, they look really rushed and no outline :O
Use a bigger pallet green, and make a outline.
The sky looks better, a bigger pallet blue is what it needs.
I think the stars look great, but add some shading to them.
The pinquins look good, they don't fit well in those suroundings though.
Thankyou for your imput Crossel! I will take all you say to heart, since you're such a great spriter! So i think i explained why the trees look a bit awkward... but i hope they dont look rushed, i had spent a good fifteen minutes making the big tree... as for the shading, i'm not very sure how to shade a pine tree...since they have no definite dimensions, do they? Really i dont want my pine's to look like cones, and i'm not going for a in-game look, so it's hard for me to determine how i would shade them...
I can definetly go back and change the sky color pallette to blue it up a bit. (remember, it's supposed to be at night, so it still has to be a bit dark...and that's just my spriting shading style anyhow) i also agree with the stars, they look great, but they should have more of "glow" around them...
As for the chickadees, i think that you're both right, and they just plain and simple don't fit... it's the rigid outlining of my style, and just the "hard" color pallette...
Thanks everyone! I'm going to go back, fix accordingly, and i'll go from there!
I want to thank everyone who has come to my thread, because Crossel, you have given it the honor of it's 100th reply, and i am honored that everyone thinks my stuff is decent enough to have that many people check it out! Thanks everyone!
You know the drill!
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