/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

It's stupid late over here but I'll try my best to keep this sensible and coherent. I did two quick ones.

>>1831680
It could be, and thank you! interestingly coincides with later anon's comments about utilizing less grey.

>>1831768

Noted. There's a perfect balance where the right grey makes the rest of the colors come alive, but I often overshoot it. I'll try to pay more attention to it, though I'm not sure how I did on this set - A bit too sleepy.

Also, broken in terms of how the colors vibrate together - like the background of the second one isn't just blue or blue green, it's green with blue overlain on top. There's a kid of balance to that, too - Frans Hals did it very well, like the perfect amount of smooth transitions paired with some very opaque brushstrokes, which could just be considered a texture as your frenetic strokes are.

>>1831757

This thread likes you too. Do something bright and vivid, with direct light.

>>1831947
There's improvement, to be sure. Remember to simplify so you don't have to deal with much of anything but color. It sounds like it'd be too easy, but even if you just paint a hill being lit from the side you're dealing with values, drawing, edges, hue shifts, and transitions within planes.

>>1832191

I'll use purple wherever I damn well please.

Hahaha and thank you for the advice, I agree. It did come out looking a little strange, didn't it? I suppose that's the point of experimentation, though. I would argue that it's just a case of it not being appropriate - if the environment felt hot and humid then the purple would be appropriate. As it is, it's a bit out of place.

>>1832526

Oh anon~

You posted earlier in this thread, yeah? These are looking lovely as well. You do have a habit in these of setting up your colors in a somewhat monochromatic/analogous fashion and then adding a small blip of focal color. It's not a good thing or a bad thing, just something to pay attention to so you don't end up doing it all the time.