Ostrich Falsetober - 6 to go!!
Added 2020-10-25 22:12:57 +0000 UTC
Comments
I just love how you manage to create feather textures that are close to reality while making them stand out because they’re simple in shape. Your art is just so awesome! 🤟
David
2020-10-28 04:12:55 +0000 UTCThat’s funny, the first thing that caught my eye was the lovely watercolor flow in the necks. 😄 I think I’ve gotten better at it lately but I used to really go for it with watercolor and ink then spend tons of time trying to make the mistakes look intentional, which taught me a great deal about patterning and “happy accidents” but I had a college professor who saw right through it and told me one of the more important skills for an artist is knowing when to stop. Edit edit edit, he’d say. You’ve mentioned something getting away from you before but I’ve never noticed it, you’ve got a good editor’s eye.
Beth W
2020-10-26 22:25:41 +0000 UTCThanks! The background happened entirely out of necessity! It was a standard case of me putting too much detail into their necks, which sort of snow-balled out of control. I had to make the background darker–especially at the bottom of the image-to make the necks look lighter. I was kicking myself, knowing I should've left the necks almost white, but I improvised to 'fix' the mistake and I'm ultimately happy with the end result.
False Knees
2020-10-26 14:45:42 +0000 UTCThis is absolutely wonderful, I love it so much! It’s a perfect phone wallpaper too.
Olivia MacRae
2020-10-26 00:13:02 +0000 UTCThat patterning breaks up the long lines of the ostriches really nicely. Helps them pop out and you get two motions happening together.
Beth W
2020-10-26 00:00:52 +0000 UTC
