"Banished" by Jean Kogok

Oh, that's a sad story... but I'm not worried about him since you said everything turns out all right ^_^. I like how you designed his clothes--it makes him look very different from the usual fairies on Elfwood.

I have a suggestion about your colouring, I hope you don't mind... I saw in your bio that you have recently started using Photoshop, and so I assume this was done with the airbrush tool (if not, then ignore me ^_^). It might be beneficial to turn down the fuzziness, or work at a smaller brush size, when you are colouring around edges. This will help with creating sharper images and colouring details. As it is right now, the colours seem to bleed into a glowing mist around the objects. This can sometimes be a good effect, but it also sometimes makes things too blurry. I hope this suggestion will help you with your future colouring. I also hope you are not offended, because I am impressed by your first attempts at using Photoshop.
Keep up the good work! ^_^

Jean Kogok replies: "Not offended at all--I appreciate your suggestion. i do work with a pretty fuzzy airbrush in photoshop--cause I've been too afraid of messing up to use a less fuzzy one. I guess I've been trying so hard to avoid harsh edges, that I end up with overly fuzzy ones. Thanks for your helpful comment!"

Very cool work! Cool idea. I with i had something like this on my page!

Jean Kogok replies: "Thank you. I stopped by your gallery and it's awesome! "

First off, thanks for visiting my gallery a while back. I've had a few additions since then if you'd like to take a look.

Now on your picture here; I agree with Marina about the fuzzyness. I don't have Photoshop, however. I use 'MS Picture It' and GIMP for most of my work. I did have a similar problem when using the airbrush tool. I found that there are two ways to correct for this.

One way is to resize the image to a larger version with a high DPI. That will make the airbrushing a little finer. I often work on images that are 3600 by 4800 pixils. But the draw back to that is that the larger, more detailed the image the more RAM you'll need for the program. My programs have crashed more than once working on such large images.

You could also use the Pencil tool if Photoshop has it. I've found that the Pencil tool will give you very sharp edges and then use the airbrush for shading the interior of the image and for shadows.

I'm not saying change this image but rather keep it in mind if you decide to do a remake or a sequel.

Jean Kogok replies: "Ooo! Lots of good advice--I love that Thanks for taking the time and for dropping by my gallery!"

It best not to use the pencil tool in Photoshop Jean, as you get a lot of hard colour and jagged edges. Just use smally brush sizes like Marina sugested. It is hard work, but no great painting comes from a poor use of a tool.

I like the softness of your colour and shading, but you need to study anatomy a little bit more. I know that none of use are exactly equally sized on both left and right sides of the body, but her face is far too wide on one side of her nose.

Her left arm should be seen to be coming from behind her chest or breast, not from in front of it. Or her right arm should be further back exposing more of her chest, you can't have it both ways

By the way I adore her hat

Jean Kogok replies: "Thanks for your comment and for the good advice! This is a pretty old pic, and I hope my figure drawing and coloring techniques have improved since I did it. This one seems to have attracted a lot of detailed advice, which was helpful."

Wow this one is wonderful
the blueness
his dear frightened face
the dusky gloaming atmosphere
goodie
love the matching hat
and the stark tree
the light on his face like hes just found some moonbeams
dear lil fairy boy

Jean Kogok replies: "Thanks very much! And I like the poem-ish style of your comment"

This is so beautiful; I really like the expressive quality and the shading technique, excellent job

Jean Kogok replies: "Thank you!"