[Gadbury]

Hey everyone - first time posting in a 2D Jam, hopefully I'll do many more

Here's a WIP

Edit - Oh, crits and stuff more than welcome!

Cheers



Update

[Jeromo]

Hello guys,

Where the unicorns come from?

[LynxMB]

Gadbury: wow! that's awesome! great mood
Jeromo: hilarious XD love the story

here's my progress so far. I really wanted to do that rainbow splatter element, but then decided that I could use the practice of creatures in an environment, so went for a more traditional kind of composition. And playing with some colors.

[kovah]

LynxMb: I would watch your anatomy the right horse is missing its front legs and the left one is very bottom heavy.

Horses are tricky to draw so I would advise everyone to look at some reference images to really get the feel for them

[kjax89]

how do you make your image bigger? I read how to post and I know how to make thumbnails but how do you put the full image on the thread like everyone else. I'm a noob when it comes to forums and threads

[kovah]

Originally Posted by kjax89

how do you make your image bigger? I read how to post and I know how to make thumbnails but how do you put the full image on the thread like everyone else. I'm a noob when it comes to forums and threads

Upload it as normal using the green paperclip then click the green paperclip again and 'insert all attachements' or just the images you want and click them. It should add something like Attachment 45309845 into your post and they will show up as full size images.

Do try and resize them to a 'forum friendly' size before you do this

[notpill]

Originally Posted by Gadbury

Hey everyone - first time posting in a 2D Jam, hopefully I'll do many more

Here's a WIP

Edit - Oh, crits and stuff more than welcome!

Cheers

Attachment 70712

a w e s o m e

[metabolism]

Noob question.

What does WIP stand for?

[kjax89]

thanks Kovah.

[kjax89]

Attachment 70920another rough Attachment 70905I dont like how this is coming out and I will probably restart but for the record how do you think I can fix this image? the colors for the unicorn don't seem to work with the environment what do you think?Attachment 70891

[notpill]

Originally Posted by metabolism

Noob question.

What does WIP stand for?

Work In Progress

[kovah]

Originally Posted by kjax89

I dont like how this is coming out and I will probably restart but for the record how do you think I can fix this image? the colors for the unicorn don't seem to work with the environment what do you think?Attachment 70891

I think the anatomy problems are too big to save it tbh. I would either go for a more stylised, exaggerated almost cartoon like unicorn or really get some good references and make sure your anatomy is as good as you can manage

Your colour pallette is very bluey/purple too, there is little contrast in the image and while you have some nice reflected light from the ice going on its not overly clear where the light is, or if they are in a cave where it is coming from. I think before you move from a sketch (especially with a tradition piece) you need to be 100% critical with yourself that everything is working out right. And even before then perhaps do a few thumbnails to work out composition, poses, light source and background and try a few colours over those to see how they look.

[metabolism]

Originally Posted by kjax89

another rough Attachment 70905I dont like how this is coming out and I will probably restart but for the record how do you think I can fix this image? the colors for the unicorn don't seem to work with the environment what do you think?Attachment 70891

Most of the anatomy is better in this version! I do however feel the neck/head are a tad small, compared to how large and muscular the rest of him looks.

[Jeromo]

[kovah]

kjax89: Feel free to make a new post when you update an image rather than editing the old one The as people scroll through the thread they can see your progress.