My course project: Fantasy painting with acrylics
Mon projet du cours : Peinture fantaisiste à l'acrylique
by Cris K @cris_kratt
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I really enjoyed learning. I've been drawing and painting my whole life and I'm passionate about the fantastic and heroic world, but my talent is limited and this course taught me a lot. I usually paint with little detail and depth, and on this project I really outdid myself. I decided to keep the idea of the cloudy background because I have absolutely no idea how to make clouds and I wanted to learn. I still have a lot to learn, and by posting the project I realize what I could have improved more, but I'm actually very proud of the result, a great first!
J'ai eu beaucoup de plaisir d'apprendre. Je dessine et peint depuis toujours et je suis passionnée par le monde fantastique et héroïque mais mon talent est limité et ce cours m'a beaucoup appris. En général je fait des peintures avec peu de détails et de profondeur et sur ce projet la je me suis surpassée. J'ai décidé de garder l'idée de l'arrière-plan nuageux car je ne sais absolument pas réaliser des nuages et j'avais envie d'apprendre. J'ai encore beaucoup à apprendre et en postant le projet je me rend compte de ce que j'aurai pu améliorer d'avantage, mais je suis plutôt très fière du résultat, une grande première !
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Hi Cris,
I am so glad to hear that you enjoyed the course, and I am very happy to see the result and all the various stages. I think it looks great, and it's very obvious that you followed the different steps perfectly. It's a great looking bird with good detail, and a nice little drama too.
I hope you will continue to experiment more with the techniques you have learnt - and maybe next time you can consider the tonal values, to make the subject stand out more from the background. If you had made the bird a little bit darker and the sky a little bit brighter it would have made the silhouette stand out a little more, and would have made the image even stronger. Having said that, you should definitely be very proud of achieving this lovely result!
very nice achievement :)
@ejsing Hello Jesper, thank you very much for your message. I could have actually worked on the bird more but I complicated the task by wanting to make an albino crow, I had no idea how to increase the shading without it appearing gray. I should practice more on the colors of shadows and lights. Thank you again for your message and your course, plus this final project is in the top 5 creations for the month of April and I am very proud of it ✨
@matijavukartist87 Thank you very much ✨
@cris_kratt In that case, to emphasise that the bird is white / bright, it might also be possible to make the sky even darker behind it, or give it some nice high lights maybe. The idea is more a tonal difference between the subject and the background, than having it in a specific way. But this is all part of the experience you get through painting - considering what colour palette and tonal range that works for your subject and your intentions for it. It's not always easy... not for me either!
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