January 2019 Challenge: Frosgard

[Kellerica]

Nice work on the lighting effects so far! The auroras are amazing! The snow could maybe use a bit more softness to it? I can still kind of see the long strokes it's been drawn in, and it makes it look a bit less snowy and more... um... fiber-like? If that makes any sense?

[aeshnidae]

Beautiful color palette! The background looks like the northern lights to me. As tons of other people have already set, the lighting is beautiful.

[Ilanthar]

Very nice idea, I like the improvement on the snow/ice.
I kinda agree with Kellerica about the aurora, maybe something more evanescent on the outsides. A gradient maybe?

[XCali]

Nice work on the lighting effects so far! The auroras are amazing! The snow could maybe use a bit more softness to it? I can still kind of see the long strokes it's been drawn in, and it makes it look a bit less snowy and more... um... fiber-like? If that makes any sense?

Thanks.
Wtih my next update, I tried to ease the fibre effect of the snow.

Beautiful color palette! The background looks like the northern lights to me. As tons of other people have already set, the lighting is beautiful.

Thank you. Yeah, it is the Northern lights, though it is a strange kind of challenge to get them right.

[XCali]

Very nice idea, I like the improvement on the snow/ice.
I kinda agree with Kellerica about the aurora, maybe something more evanescent on the outsides. A gradient maybe?

Kellerica? She mentioned the snow being fibre-like still. The Aurora on the other hand is a bit of a challenge to change at the moment, though I will see if I can touch it up.

[XCali]

Hi!

Today, I again tried to root out more of the hard round brush strokes.

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Frosgard_Smoothing_V2.jpeg

[Tenia]

Beautiful. Be careful not to blend too much. I'm not sure I don't prefer the previous version.

[Kellerica]

Looks nice, I think the snow is certainly improved now!

For the auroras, I don't know for sure if this would work, but you could try adding some light vertical strokes along the length of the the whole thing? The lights sometimes look like they are made of these kinds of lines, like in this picture.

[Ilanthar]

I think Kellerica's idea is a very interesting one!
And it's looking good, anyway!

[RenflowerGrapx]

Looks nice, I think the snow is certainly improved now!

For the auroras, I don't know for sure if this would work, but you could try adding some light vertical strokes along the length of the the whole thing? The lights sometimes look like they are made of these kinds of lines, like in this picture.

good shot. I totally agree about some light effects