Mokonafan wrote:
LOL he got some very distinct features. xD
I like the flow of this page..I think it's a little inconsistent with her lips though. One frame she has dark green lips the other frames it's just shaded and an outline. I think that the trees dark outline in the smaller frames doesn't fit with the background of the troll using the whistle.
Her hands are much better. And I love her expressions.
Thanks again for the feedback! Don't agree with you in this particular case though.
The lips are pursed in one image and lit very differently in the next, so I don't think there is an inconsistency here, rather it would be strange if they looked the same from step to step, it's a part of making the expression dynamic (I'm glad you like the expressions overall!). As for the trees, they
cannot match since we are watching the forest from different angles when seeing the whistling background and the other frames.
AnMal wrote:
griatch: i really like the vaette
. they are a bit hairier than i expected them to be! i always pictured vättar unoriginal and boring, like garden gnomes - i prefer this style.
it's funny, the details moko says she has problems with are actually good examples of what i like best about this while strip so far: a great sense of what's important and not. i mean, the trees are of major importance in the small frame where the vaette start showing up, but of very minor importance in the frame where she blows the whistle and that shows in the style you drew the trees in. makes good sense to me and it makes the strip clear and easy to follow.
i'm less fond of troll girl's whistle. i did get that it was some sort of flute or whistle, but i can't help wishing it was more interesting to look at. guess the thought of magic instruments catch my fancy
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The Vätte are fun to draw. And yeah, "gnome" is really a pretty bad translation for the scandinavian word "Vätte". There is something called "gnom" in Swedish too, although that may be an imported English word from D&D rather than from the original legends, I don't know. The varying style of trees is indeed to help guide the eye to the important bits without having a completely homogenous background, cool that you think it works!
As for the whistle, I needed something you could imagine her to be able to easily hide somewhere since I didn't want to spend a frame on her producing it out of thin air or something.
If you look at it, it's actually quite detailed and quite weird of shape, far more so than a normal flute or whistle would have been at least.
But I see your point on it perhaps not being as impressive as a magical instrument ought to be perhaps. A matter of taste I suppose.
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