Canotila wrote:Maybe we could do an artist critique exchange here on the boards through PMs or something so people can get feedback? I'd be willing to lend an eye if anyone needs it. And heaven knows my own work could use some help, ha!
Me too! Me two! I'd be happy to eyeball and give honest feedback on anything that anyone's thinking of sending to IotF too. We all know how sometimes just having a
fresh set of eyes see something for the first time ... can reveal something a little "off" that we ourselves miss after the X-teenth revision!
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Always eager to lend a hand and help out the contests and contestants ...
* Speaking for myself, in my early submissions I more than once had issues playing with (or without) perspective and my tendency to purposefully "flatten" and then "stack" elements more like graphic design than illustration (the old debate about seeing the page as a 2-D surface, or a "window" looking into a 3-D space, etc)
You get divergent opinions when you do that, and having several opinions can tell you whether it's "wrong" or merely a knowing "choice" (Do you want someone's hallucinations to appear 'realistic' or 'trippy and distorted' ... and where's the line between those, in the average audience's eyes, etc)