/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>6299976
I actually sorta like the vegetation (especially the foliage in the lower half of the picture); it has an expressionistic vibe to it that I personally find eye-catching. The color palette, with the yellowish green, the black, and the red, coupled with the rendering style, is effective in conveying to the viewer that sense of underlying menace that one gets from certain images of wild nature.

Your style in general, and the dragon in particular, reminds me a little bit of the work of the surrealist painter Max Ernst (pic related, it's "The Angel of Hearth and Home" ["L'Ange du Foyer", 1937]). My suggestion is that, in order to enhance the rendering of your picture, you try to adopt one of the main qualities of his pieces, by giving to the trunks of the trees and the skin of the dragon more detailed textures.

In order to avoid overpainting the whole work, you could use a small brush and add narrow fringes of hatches and points along the edges of the shadows and the penumbra, basically depicting with those little brushstrokes the transition from darkness to light, so that you give the impression that those surfaces are covered with rugosities or scales.

>>4659314
the shortcuts and convenience makes people do lazy shit that steals the soul of the work. see>>4661309
Combine that with a generation of kids trying to be concept artists, making parts to go into a brands intellectual property instead of making something that stands on its own Also shills making fan art of any fad that will get them social media attention...
It's not the tool, its the tools using it that give it a bad name.

>>4197749
Dali would sit on the edge of a bed holding a spoon over a pie plate, so every time he nodded off he'd wake himself up and imiditly draw what he was dreaming about.
Max Ernst invited frottage, which is placing paper over an object and shading over it to get shapes, that he'd turn into paintings. Also was in to collage.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrealist_techniques

if your asking about The Exquisite corpse.
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