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Before the Blue City
Before the Blue City
Painting \ Nature | 08/06/07 @797 | 
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This is a Book cover for a friend who writes charming children tales, Hi Carlos!.I decided to make a gift to him and make the cover of the book he is writing.
Making this Paint was a total challenge and a lot of fun wile doing it. I'm not too seasoned doing Backgrounds but I love this painting.
I wanted to communicate the feeling that you have when visiting a beautiful place for the first time, and when you walk around the corner and behold the magnificent view, you just have to stop and stare at the landscape for a few minutes.
Took inspiration form the amazing paintings of
vacher and the paintings of John Howe, that guy simply rocks.Well I hope you like it, this is practically done, I have spend lots of hours doing it and I'm too lazy to make corrections at this point, but your comments and directions are always appreciated for next works.
Oh, the small 716px doesnt do any justice, please look at the bigger version, the original is 5100x3300px at 300dpi
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08/06/07 @820
Keep it up
08/06/07 @850
love the colours you've used here
I agree with Claeng about the focus/depth issue
The overall feeling is quite magical
Love how you rendered the grass
+ 9
08/06/07 @877
Wallace, the idea is to be all magical, its good you notice it, thanks!
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08/07/07 @245
Another crit of mine - you should work on mixing the colors,colors of light,shadow and reflection - even with such a close to monochromatic palette you could work more on mixing colors.
I like the mountains (nice textures there
Good job overall!Keep it up)
08/07/07 @689
Curlyhair, The odd composition is because this is a splash paged book cover, it looks very well when is cut in half and with the title on top
08/08/07 @098
Carlos
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08/10/07 @558
Children have a completely different way of regarding pictures and paintings. And I think that adding any more depth or atmosphere to this artwork will make this LESS appealing to children.
Another thing, if this book contains different unrelated tales, then it's not wrong to add characters that don't fit together in the cover. In addition to that, children like character variety in a painting and they tend to give each character a separate story and background using their fantastic imagination...
Overall, I think you did best for the purpose.
+8/8
08/10/07 @698
I tried to place a lot of things that appeal to me when I was younger, like a rainbow, the mist, puffy clouds, huge landscapes and massive mountains, I hope the children could see in this picture a place to play whit their imagination.
Thanks for all the constructive and kind comments.
08/11/07 @351
I think most artists above who criticized your work probably looked across the fact that it's for children before criticizing. Otherwise, they have good points.
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