really like this style and all the colors are so vivid and bright.. excellent job.

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It's shibby. Lushly coloured, nicely drawn.

wish I could do this

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Wee... a beautiful piece.
Very interesting.

this is great i love the colors....

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that is soo neat....love all the colors and the style... nice work

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OMG this is great it reminds me of Alice in wonderland that book fux0ring rox Ima add this to my favorites now!

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I like the title.


Good start so far. Some things I thought I mgiht mention: The linework might look better and cleaner if you were to take that layer to a higher level of contrast--say full black. The grey lines can look really good if consistent or used for making the line themselves "coloured"--but in this piece, particularly in items like the mushrooms, the low contrast linework seems to stand out...it almost makes it seem like a bad scan.

The colouring: I particularly like the low contrast greens in the background combined with the foggy spheres. That gives it a sense of atmosphere which I feel enhances the picture. As for the foreground, while the colouring you have is adequate, it could "pop" if you were to "mix" colours. The red seems to be a fairly solid red, the greens seem a little flat, the browns and neutral colours just a little too desaturated. It seems as if you laid the colour down and relied on the burn and dodge tools to create variation, which only works to an extent. The colours seem to pure for a woodland scene. Perhaps if you were to take an airbrush on low pressure settings, and brush in colours analogous to the primary colour, you could shape the shadow and light of the shapes in your work. Consider the colour of your light....is it yellowy woodland light with a faint green cast when reflected from behind and the ground? Or is it more pale, foggier, bluer light?

http://www.suzannecooper.com/classroom/c olortheory.html

Here's a page showing approximately what I mean about the colour. (Slightly different style of art, but the colour thing may still apply.)

http://www.yrth.net/insects/art/cemelfpr in_ip.php

The contrast on the colouring that you have done also often jumps from really light to really dark. Sometimes this is appropriate and sometimes it just seems a little hasty. I recommend using the smudge tool to ease the transition in several places. The broad side of a leaf for example, is less likely to shift from light to dark quickly than the the edge of the leaf, unless there is a very definite shadow from another object.

I would like to finish up by saying that this is a very nice piece, and shows a strong display of whimsicality and creativity. The detail is good, but gets a little lost under the colouring technique. I hope you don't mind the intensive commentary on your technique--sometimes I sorta end up going all art-school-y. *grin* I hope to see more work from you in the future.