SciFi and Fantasy Art: Worship Revised

beautiful feather detail and I love the hair! Colored pencil is pretty hard and doing wide areas, such as the sky are even harder. You might try (at least for the sky) maybe a light water color wash and then layering a few colors of pencils over the top or get some of the art stick color pencils for filling in large areas and then burnish over with other colors. The trick to colored pencils is burnishing, but it takes a long time and your hands get cramped. Anyhow, this is off to a beautiful start!

Joellena S. 'azul' Asher replies: ""burnishing", hmmm, i'm not familiar with that term. i'd thought about the water color but trying to not paint the figure involves too much work. the input is appreciated. thanx for the compliments too."

She's a goddess herself!!! Why would she be worshipping anything? We should be worshipping her! I LOVE the color you've added, it makes the whole picture something devine.

Sky's are a bit tricky..... if you have the skyline up a bit higher the area would be smaller (most of it hiding behind her wings, if lower you'd be limited on a nice foreground of cliffs.... As for colored pencils, the sky would look great either medium to light blues mixed OR very vivid reds/yellows/orange as a sunset/sunrise. The cliffs/foreground would look good being very jagged with very dark reds with shadows/highlights to enhance her gorgeous figure both in design and in contrasting color. (my 2 cents worth)

The crisp line work in this picture really helps convey all the wonderful detail. I'd say you should draw the ground she is kneeling on to root her in space, but I rarely ever bother to draw backgrounds for my figures either.

Joellena S. 'azul' Asher replies: "backgrounds is kind of a recent turn my work has taken... i agree that she definitely needs the reference of some ground or something. thanx."

Beautiful!!! I really love the wings. I don't really think the picture needs a background, because it looks great as it is.

Oh! I love the wings! They are so crisp, and beautiful! Thank you!


William

Wow. You have SO improved. This is awesome. Your anatomy is excellent. And the wings! just beautiful!
way to go on this one!

Such good work and a frightening amount of detail on those wings - my only (tiny, teenee) little suggestion would be check the proprtion of the head with the body as it looks a little big to me - again the expression on her face as well as the expression in her hands and body are spot-on.

Thought I'd come check out the rest of your gallery, and I'm so glad you did. I really like this piece! Those wings...*is breathless*...great job on them, and her hair is stunning. And wow, now if I could have a firm butt like that..*whistles*. =) Backgrounds aren't really my cup of tea either and can be quite tricky. You seem to have a pretty good grasp on it though. Lovely gallery!

LOVE the curves of the wings! Beautiful wings. A little over-powering their bearer, though. But beautiful nonetheless.

This picture is very good, the wings are especially amazing, but I think that the figure looks a little emaciated. Now I know as a flying creature she would need to be thin but looks as through you can see her ribs whichis never healthy.