Writing my proposal was killing me a little so an evening a couple of days ago I decided to have a break and practise my painting skills. I decided I was going to brush up on my ability to caricature and chose this wonderful picture here as it had a lot of personality already.
Started by creating a rough sketch taking into account key parts of the animal. He looks a bit crazy but I kinda liked that.
Then i went on to add colour, I've made some similar style cartoons previously but this one seems to be of a higher quality due to the practise I've done in the last couple of years. Practise is certainly paying off. I added a Christmas hat because "holidays are coming" and it added to his crazy a little.
Never really managed to render a picture properly before. I've always been a little afraid to or lost confidence halfway through and ended up abandoning it but I pushed through with this one. I'm pleased with the result even if he seems to have lost some of his crazy expression.
Because this was practise though I'm going to critique it.
Things that could be better:
Things that could be better:
- The material on the hat doesn't have much form to it, some studies on painting material would come in handy to help fix that.
- Similarly the fluffy section on the hat doesn't look how I'd have liked and finding a method of producing a fluffy texture would be nice to find
- The left side of his face needs to have some higher contrast shadows as I think it loses some of its 3Dness
- The eyes probably would have benefited by being done individually and put more work into creating eyes that feel like lenses more than stickers stuck on a cue ball.
- The feathers I didn't make into actual feathers again due to lack of knowing how to go about creating them, same with the body,
To summarise main points to improve on in the future and ways to go about doing it.
- Texture : Tutorials
- Lighting : Value painting
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