Nice, fun illo, good composition, color and shapes. I'm looking at it and thinking that it seems to wear it's digital roots (I'll take credit for the pun, though not intended) on it's sleeve. When I was starting out using the airbrush, I remember several discussions with other illustrators about the quality of the edges of areas/shapes that were made with cut frisket as opposed to area/shapes made without. Somehow the softening of the edge, even the most minute, helped hold the object together and keep things from looking cut out. That's kind of what stand out to me here. Even though I like the drop shadow, it creates a flatness that draws my attention.
My wife, who is a designer and se's everything I do over my shoulder, suggested to me after it's all done I use a gaussian blur, very slight, over the entire thing. When I airbrush even runing a pencil gingerly along the to sharp edge seems to help. It seems to be a trick of perception, tha has some connections to lost and found, sharp and blurred edges in painting.
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Ha! That's great!
Nice, fun illo, good composition, color and shapes. I'm looking at it and thinking that it seems to wear it's digital roots (I'll take credit for the pun, though not intended) on it's sleeve. When I was starting out using the airbrush, I remember several discussions with other illustrators about the quality of the edges of areas/shapes that were made with cut frisket as opposed to area/shapes made without. Somehow the softening of the edge, even the most minute, helped hold the object together and keep things from looking cut out. That's kind of what stand out to me here. Even though I like the drop shadow, it creates a flatness that draws my attention.
I completely agree. I'm still trying to hit the right balance between digital and freehand. I think I'm coming close with the image posted above...
My wife, who is a designer and se's everything I do over my shoulder, suggested to me after it's all done I use a gaussian blur, very slight, over the entire thing. When I airbrush even runing a pencil gingerly along the to sharp edge seems to help. It seems to be a trick of perception, tha has some connections to lost and found, sharp and blurred edges in painting.
I've actually been messing around with blurring and going over various edges to take the "edge" off... it seems to make a nice difference.
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