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08-06-2009, 07:09 PM

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Originally Posted by GTJ View Post
Check the length of your nose.

Haha you'd figure there'd be more.

Watch out for the bleed on the first one, that's way too much water. Experiment with dry brush techniques; they're fun!

I like the yellow roses. I dunno if it was intentional but the difference in saturation between the ones in the foreground and middleground give it nice depth.

Zebra looks good, I like the blending of very intricate strokes with wide, simple ones. The black ink bleed on the left side is pulling my eye away, though, and it feels like his/her right front leg is unfinished. Otherwise a solid piece.

In the words of every painting teacher I've ever had:

Keep going!
*pats nose* nope, definitely not a wooden puppet. Still a copy
Yeah, the bleed on the stems was a disappointment, but I didn't want them to come out too stark when the flowers were going to be quite light.
The hard copy of the roses is up in my loft so I can't check what I did, but the saturation might be acerbated by the camera angle.

Apparently there hadn't been many penguins till I came along either!

Do you study art? You seem to know a lot!
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