Three Moons

[Lahree]

I am also going to X-post this in the Colored Pencil forum.
Maybe I should call it Four Moons, 'cause the fairy has her nekkid bootie hanging out! lol! Anyway, I think this is about 16X11 and is the first in a series of fairies drawn in monochromatic colors. I love working this way. I can go a lot faster than I usually do and actually composing the original drawing takes almost as long as the coloring now. I am working on Oyster colored Canson Mi-teintes paper and I just love it.

As always, c/c most welcome and most appreciated.

[Arlene]

hey lori i love this. one thing does bother me though...her hand doesn't look quite right and i can't put my finger on it...maybe cause it's 2 in the morning?:rolleyes:

[Arlene]

oh and no pun intended with my finger remark:p

[Brenda]

Wonderful, Lori! I really like the subtle glow on this and her wings are beautiful!

Her hand... hmmm. Me, too. Is it because the wrist bones are too great a distance from her hand? And her palm seems too short. Her knuckles seem to be very close to the junction of her thumb to the hand.

And I love your signature line with all your fairies in it. Do you do dragons, too?

[Bill C]

Nice Lori, been really studying this one ;) (added the censored icon btw, those flowers are strategically placed but still....) Anyway, check your lighting. It looks to me like you have multiple light sources.

Is this from outta yur head?, wow, reaaaallllly cool! :D

[caulfield]

It is just beautiful! I love your composition! I think the fingers on the hands are just a little short. Of course you probably know my history with hands. :rolleyes:

Do you have a source where you get nude references?

Nicole

[KarenCardinal]

Do you have a source where you get nude references?

Nicole

Alright... I have to admit it... I'm Lori's model. You didn't realize how thin and ummmm... perky.... I was, did you? ;) :D

I really love this new series you're doing Lori! This one (and the next one) are simply FANTABULOUS! I can't wait to see the third one, especially since you said it was a real wower.

btw everyone, I did finally get Lori's site updated so you can see all her works now... They are soooooo cool!
:clap:

[Toni]

hey Lahree!

Shes cute.. but ya asked for C&C .....

something about this palette seems highly familiar....hmmmmmmm ;)

First thing that hits me is her gaze. nice foreshortning on her face, but the direction of her gaze is akward, unless it's to direct everyone to her chest. The breasts themselves appear to need more weight to me, and follow the contour of her ribs better. The off breast is coming fwd to much, and both need to be more believable because the rest of her is. Also in that pose with the curve of her back they would be thrusted fwd, but not as much... uhhhh lol.

Those leaves there don't do much either.. an akward place to end them.

her upper wrist/hand area could be longer (as in the top, not the fingers) but what I notice right off after the boobs is that her arm is masculine. She is soft and curvy but her arm isn't. Would like to see that trimmed down and some curves added to it. Arm musculature is important too!

You've got lighting from both sides , difficult because both are strong. Looks good so far.

Now because faeries are fantasy I don't worry much about correct proportions, i purposely push the limits on mine. So I'm not going to comment on anything there, except the overall lenght of her arm from shoulder to wrist.

can't wait to see the new one!!

TJ

[Lahree]

hey Lahree!

Shes cute.. but ya asked for C&C .....

something about this palette seems highly familiar....hmmmmmmm ;)

First thing that hits me is her gaze. nice foreshortning on her face, but the direction of her gaze is akward, unless it's to direct everyone to her chest. The breasts themselves appear to need more weight to me, and follow the contour of her ribs better. The off breast is coming fwd to much, and both need to be more believable because the rest of her is. Also in that pose with the curve of her back they would be thrusted fwd, but not as much... uhhhh lol.

Those leaves there don't do much either.. an akward place to end them.

her upper wrist/hand area could be longer (as in the top, not the fingers) but what I notice right off after the boobs is that her arm is masculine. She is soft and curvy but her arm isn't. Would like to see that trimmed down and some curves added to it. Arm musculature is important too!

You've got lighting from both sides , difficult because both are strong. Looks good so far.

Now because faeries are fantasy I don't worry much about correct proportions, i purposely push the limits on mine. So I'm not going to comment on anything there, except the overall lenght of her arm from shoulder to wrist.

can't wait to see the new one!!

TJ

:eek: Other than that, what's wrong? LOL!

Thanks for everyone's comments and all kidding aside, I DO very MUCH appreciate c&c's!

I certainly will re-address the arm and hands and breasts. Now, as far as lighting source, Karen (oops! I blurted the name of the model!!) is photographed WITH multiple light sources. I guess I am not strong enough artistically-light wise to start eliminating some of the light. The model is photographed in a studio and is no doubt photographed with lights on her everywhere. I think where people think her wrist bones are, it's actually veins that were highlighted, (evidently poorly LOl :rolleyes) but it LOOKS like wrist bones.

This was difficult to draw because she is so small compared to other works I have done. I literally have to hold a magnifying glass to draw in her facial features. That'll teach me to try to work in a handable size paper! Ann Kullberg says she never works on a face smaller than an egg, because of the lack of detail she can put in. I think I should adhere to this rule also.

I'll see what I can do on this, but it might just be easier to do another "do-over." The corrections would involve a #ell of a lot of erasing.

[Raquel]

This is beautiful, Lori... I especially like her face, hair and the wings, which have an unusual configuration/pattern. I am sure they didn't come from the model, be it Karen or anybody else, but your prodigious imagination... :clap:

I want to mention the things I see in need of more thought and/or corrections. I find the vine contrived - its main purpose seems to be to cover up her boobies... More substance or movement would make it less obvious.

I find her boobies too upright, especially the right one, as Toni showed, but you can chuck that to plain envy on my part! :D

The last thing is the hip bone. Even though I lost sight of mine a long time ago, this is not envy, honestly. It just doesn't anatomically line up with the thigh in a natural way, but seems to be in front of it too much.

[Lahree]

Hi Frida /Raquel and thanks for your comments!

I think the vine looks contrived too and its exact purpose WAS to cover nipples and crotch. LOL! I lamented for a long time trying to decide whether the buying public (BTW if you see any buying public--send them my way. They are a rare sight and I certainly have not seen any in a long, long time. Maybe I need to switch feeders! :p :rolleyes: ) would be more likely to buy the drawing if it did not show nipples and the pubis. I decided it would fit a larger audience if the aforementioned were not shown and I tried to find a flowing way to cover up said items. I was happy at first with the results and then felt (or saw) the same thing you are mentioning--it looks contrived. I think I would have been happier to either put clothes on her or simply let her be her own nudie little self. Hey, it's hard to have an imagination sometimes! Makes my head hurt. I gotta figure out what her wings will look like, how to dress her/not dress her in and any props she will have...blah, blah, blah...you get the idea.

After Toni's critique, I looked at the source model and my drawing and I noticed the hip bone at that time. I think it's in the correct area, the shading around the entire area is throwing the perception off of where it is. I think. This will be something I need to look at again also. Again, I think it would be much easier to do an entire re-do. There is simply too many things to correct on this and I think it would be much more frustrating to sit and meansure and erase and try to fill in and adjust, etc.

The only I don't see that y'all don't see is a problem with her breasts. Now, grant you, I don't have a good enough memory to remember when my two were even in the same zip code as my chest wall, but looking at my source model and my drawing, I am pleased with the fairie's breasts. When I do the re-do (what kind of sentence is that?? :p ) I will certainly do really careful measuring to try to get the porportions more accurate this time. This particular model has two different size breasts. Her right one appears almost a cup size smaller. I am not kidding. I know almost all women have one breasts that is slightly larger than the other, but this beautiful young woman has two that are noticeably different sizes, so I have to compensate when I use her as a model for the fairies.

Thank yo so much for taking the time to look and to make such insightful comments! I VERY much appreciate it!

[Elankat]

Well goodness, you've gotten a lot of great feedback already, so I'm just going to give compliments to both the artist AND the model. :D

I love the palette and certainly hope to see a series of these. There is a tenderness to it that is wonderful.

[caulfield]

Karen - you hottie! I just don't know what to believe here.... :blushing:

Nicole

[KarenCardinal]

Karen - you hottie! I just don't know what to believe here.... :blushing:

Nicole
LOL! :D
Yes that's me in Lori's artwork...
And I'm only 29.

I wouldn't lie to you. ;) :D

[Lahree]

This was done when Karen was still blonde...yeah.....that's it. And I paid her in cookie dough--and the results of her payment...well, let's just say I won't be using her for a model for a bit. :devil2:

[KarenCardinal]

LOL!

Yea... it was your cookie dough that did this to my hips...
That's my story and I'm stickin' to it. :D

At least you didn't say this was done when Karen was thin. I don't think I can count back that many years. ;)

[Raquel]

I have been disconnected for two days, and impatient to tell you about something else I really love in your fairy, and hope you don't lose when you do it again. It is that beautiful, natural curve from the bottom breast line to the pubic area. Just gorgeous...!

[Lahree]

Thank you, Raquel! I shall try to acheive the same curve in the next go-round!