Little Fishing Village

[snodsy]

Thanks Ladiestorm, appreciate that you like them. I think I'm going to try to develop this into a series of 5 drawings.

Each will vary in it's habitat, but all 5 will have roughly the same layout of buildings, format, title area, and stream and water (although water may become another element--for example, a dried up creek bed or sand dunes for a dry environment).

The 5 now are; Fishing Village -- DONE, Swamp Village -- WORKING, then Pioneer or American Indian Village in a FOREST, Cliff Dwellers in a GORGE, a communities nomads- Yurts in a TUNDRA, maybe another DESERT scene. At least thats the plan now. Thanks again.

[snodsy]

Update on swamp, lot to do, lighting/shadows will be critical (misty - long shadows, streak lighting thru the trees? Not sure if I can pull it off, we'll see. I'll be adding more stuff underwater (maybe a skeleton or two?)


SwampVillage2.jpg

[ThomasR]

This is magnificent Snodsy ! My only remark would be that you could smoothen the shadows a little bit. As it is, we can see the brush strokes.

[Abu Lafia]

Lovely work snodsy, it has a great swampy mood! Also, thanks for keeping it more historically undefined. Can't wait to see the other pieces of that series you're planning. Keep up the great work!

[Josiah VE]

Aw man, I love these.
Why is there a little white line along the roof of some of the buildings?
I like that giant lizard lurking beneath the surface of the water.

[snodsy]

Thanks guys appreciate the comments and will work on those items you mentioned. Yeah there will be more creatures in the water, not a place for an afternoon dip.

[Jeudi]

Waouh, so great, i really like your style !

[Tom]

Really nice! great idea with the gradient effect! maybe you should uniform the shadows, they are too blurry in my opinion

[snodsy]

Thanks Tom, I've worked on the shadow for the Forest cleaned them up on this one. Not sure what else to add to the Forest Scene - Comments welcome. Not sure if the swamp is where I want it may come back to it after I work on others. Tundra starts today with Yurts as houses. ForestVillage1.jpgSwampVillage3.jpg

[ThomasR]

These are beautiful and the shadows are really subtle. Nice job and definitively rep-worthy !