Drawing: I need advice

[browngirl]

Honor system! DO NOT LOOK AT THIS IF YOU HAVE CHILDREN

Below are excerpts from the two versions of my WIP Mother's Day card, and a poll.

#1:

#2:

[Poll #2042017]

I realized that the way I cropped it, it isn't obvious that the larger lady is a hobbit, if that info matters.

(Also, I need an idea for the Father's Day card.)

Comments

[theloriest.livejournal.com]

I think they both are lovely. I voted for the second because the fairies are sized more like how I imagine fairies to be.

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

That's the thing, isn't it? The second are more accurately fair-sized. The first, well, show more detail since they're larger.

[bobby1933.livejournal.com]

Well, i saw the creatures in #2, not as smaller, but as farther away. So i liked #1

I know absolutely nothing about Middle Earth, but i think a Hobbit is also a rather small creature compared to h. s. sapiens.

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

Yeah, hobbits are 3 feet (book verse) to 4 feet (movie verse) tall.

I am intrigued by the mention of depth in an image I (sadly) thought was rather flat. Maybe I'm better at arting than I thought!

[claudia603.livejournal.com]

I like the size proportion in the second one better!

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

Yeah, they're more fairy sized.
But their faces come through better in the first.

auuuugh.

[leftarrow.livejournal.com]

Echoing the above comments: I prefer the size proportions of the second one. However: I like that the first one shows greater detail in the little figures, because they're adorable and bright and delicate.

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

*beams* That's exactly what I was going for with them.

And so I continue to be uncertain. *laughs at myself*

[catlinye-maker.livejournal.com]

On the second one the larger fairy appears concerned, rather than joyful, because of the loss of detail in their faces. So I prefer drawing #1.

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

*makes a note* Thank you for telling me. :)

[peteralway.livejournal.com]

Since the wings seem more dragonfly-ish than bird-ish, they ought to be more dragonfly-sized, at least in my head.

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that was part of my thinking with the smaller fairies -- the bigger ones seemed to big for their wings and other fairy features.

[hitchhiker.livejournal.com]

the first one looks like the fairies are approaching her, the second like they're waving goodbye as they leave

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

I am delightedly intrigued by the depth you and other commenters mentioned -- I thought the image was rather flat (and was disappointed in myself for it).

[peteralway.livejournal.com]

I think the colors are more saturated in the first image, less so in the second. I think that the psychological effect is to read the less saturated, lighter colors as being seen through some amount of atmospheric haze so that you percieve them as farther away.

I remember that during Apollo 15, when they landed near the Appenine mountains at the edge of Mare Imbrium, the astronauts had the impression that the mountains were much closer than they really were because of the lack of atmosphere.

I bet you could use that effect deliberately, if you wanted to.

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

*nod* That's an established artistic effect, and I need to remember its name, research it, and try to learn it.