Eevee Project

[SA Dashie]

My second piece, this time done on a drawing tables.
I used GIMP2 and a Bamboo Drawing tablet

My friend quite loves Eevee, so I wanted to give the fella a go.

~2 weeks of work put into this.


'Click for full Eevee'

Anyway, the next thing that I will be doing in art (now going into year 12)
will be practice some sort of techniques. Any suggestions?

After I will be doing two major pieces. Each will take a term of school.

 

[GreeN!X]

Maybe try to practice adding shadows and highlights to it. That bluish color that is applied to most of the drawing, looks a bit too random imo and doesn't look like anything plus It also just ruins the work put into eevee's fur. :/

I like how you made eevee's face though.

 

[Kyrbi0]

It's good, but it could definitely use some form of... definition/shading/perspective? Not sure what it is, but I can tell you that Eevee's face looks unfortunately flat, like a picture rather than a 3-D object. That, and the background like ^ said.

Keep it up!

 

[SA Dashie]

Actually the blue smudge in the background is meant to be smog/fog. I guess that lowering the density for it could make it look better or just trying something different.

Practicing highlights, shadows, perspective etc doesn't seem like a bad idea either.

Thanks guys!

 

[Roland]

I like the Close view of this kind of Art, but the problem is the Far view of the art you made, It looks scary though, but you should have lighting of the eyes on Eevee.

 

[Kimbo]

It's a really good start! Here are some suggestions:
IGNORE THE RED LINES, THAT IS JUST REFERENCE
I know my addition looks like scribble, but its made as a reference for you to enhance and advance on

1. Body-The red represents the new body form, your eevee is rigid and the perspective is off. A sitting and more flowing form suits rather than stiff and straight.
2. Shading-You are using basic 2d shading mixed with smudge...not good, you need to stick to one or the other otherwise its a conflict of styles/shading. You can use soft 2d shading however, its up to you. Look at how I shaded the eevee and did the grass. You want to "layer" your shading, from the background being more gray. The foreground being brighter.
3. The fog, your fog is smudge, that is not good, you need to decide on a soft brush or a solid brush...or both ...! What I did (which a rush job used as an example) is to draw 2d solid wave marks, then erase the edges that go into the background. You can do spiral fog, wavey fog or cloud shaped fog. whatever you think suits best
4. Reflective light-Your eevee now pops out with reflective light, the fog mists light reflects on the back of the eevee, giving it depth and bounce, not getting lost in the background. Dont forget the eyes are shiney and need reflection too, pokemon/anime/digimon style use a white dot for the eyes.
5. Don't forget light source, I chose a light source from the foreground left and a reflective light through the mists/fog for the background.
6. Grass-Layer the grass from foreground to background, you want the perspective to change and evolve, the further away the more grass, the closer the bigger and brighter the grass. The grass in the background should fade to the rest of the background, but drawn separately with a brush.

You use a bamboo pen? Don't worry, this shouldn't take that long, once you practice more, this drawing should only take at least 20-30 minutes


If you want inspiration, use this guy/girl as a reference:
http://purplekecleon.deviantart.com/gallery/
They use a fantastic way of shading using brushes that are both soft and hard. They use hues and saturation to shade (much like what you were doing but much stronger and intense). Check them out, I hope it helps

 

[SA Dashie]

Wow, alot of great points here.
A great point that you made is how I should be using the lighting more.
This is the first time that I tried to do anything in-depth before as well.

I'll see what I can do with more practice. Very helpful.