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Complicity
Mostly done last night. The only thing I did this morning was her left foot and some fooling with the shape of her face and the color of her dress, which ultimately went back to where it was last night - as I pulled the paths out, she ended up with more of a chin than my original sketch, but it gave her more character, so I kept it.
It's awaiting approval on Epilogue and Illustratorworld. It'd be up on Deviantart and Gfxartist, but both are down. Not putting it on VCL or Yerf because it'd only Yerf-okay if she had an animal head, and I think I'm right up on the line of how much non-animal-people content is allowed on the VCL.
Illustratorworld appears to use the same codebase as Epilogue. This has one very stupid side-effect: like Epilogue, you can only submit art as a JPEG. While this is okay for a fantasy art site, where people will mostly be putting up modelled, soft stuff that JPEG does okay on, it's exactly wrong for a site dedicated to vector illustration. While gradient-heavy work can be better as a JPEG, images with large areas of flat color, like this one, can and should be a GIF. 32k gif versus 60k jpeg! And the jpeg is still a little annoyingly blurry. I posted a message on their forums pointing this out. It looks to be a newish site, so there are bugs to be shaken out... they appear to be having bandwidth issues, though, so you'd think that something this blatant would be something they'd have hacked on before even putting the place up! Ah well.
Complicity
Mostly done last night. The only thing I did this morning was her left foot and some fooling with the shape of her face and the color of her dress, which ultimately went back to where it was last night - as I pulled the paths out, she ended up with more of a chin than my original sketch, but it gave her more character, so I kept it.
It's awaiting approval on Epilogue and Illustratorworld. It'd be up on Deviantart and Gfxartist, but both are down. Not putting it on VCL or Yerf because it'd only Yerf-okay if she had an animal head, and I think I'm right up on the line of how much non-animal-people content is allowed on the VCL.
Illustratorworld appears to use the same codebase as Epilogue. This has one very stupid side-effect: like Epilogue, you can only submit art as a JPEG. While this is okay for a fantasy art site, where people will mostly be putting up modelled, soft stuff that JPEG does okay on, it's exactly wrong for a site dedicated to vector illustration. While gradient-heavy work can be better as a JPEG, images with large areas of flat color, like this one, can and should be a GIF. 32k gif versus 60k jpeg! And the jpeg is still a little annoyingly blurry. I posted a message on their forums pointing this out. It looks to be a newish site, so there are bugs to be shaken out... they appear to be having bandwidth issues, though, so you'd think that something this blatant would be something they'd have hacked on before even putting the place up! Ah well.
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Date: 2003-05-31 12:36 pm (UTC)And I want to thank you pointing out Illustratorworld. I took the leap and opened up a gallery there. You're so right about the jpeg vs. gif, I'm having the damnedest time trying to keep my filesize reasonable while not fuzzying-up my flat colors.
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Date: 2003-05-31 12:59 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-05-31 01:27 pm (UTC)Nice use of negative space!
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Date: 2003-05-31 05:34 pm (UTC)Love the play of black and white in this one. Mm!
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Date: 2003-06-04 02:08 pm (UTC)