@aisuroma
What an amazing review, thank you for your nuanced analysis of hammock! ^^ It’s really a thoughtful and constructive critique. I will make a note of that for next time.
The atmosphere and color story are really nice, but it’s a little too messy for me. There are some areas that have harsh lines going through them where it looks like a selection was made and it wasn’t blended out after moving some things around. Most noticeably it is visible on her left hand, right shin, right shoulder (shadow of the hair is cut off, the armpit has a line going upwards) and the blur on the palm tree has a line going through it where it isn’t blurred.
The net also doesn’t conform to her body very well, so she appears to be floating. When you sit on a hammock, the area where the butt is should be the lowest point, and the net would hug her body, like if you were to putt something heavy in a grocery bag. The lowest point currently is off to the side. Having it off to the side does create a nice flow and line of action to the picture, but she looks like she’s floating. A way to fix this would be to adjust the net on your right hand side to conform around her left knee which would would “shift her weight” and be closer to what you’ve already drawn. She also is floating because there is not contact between the character and the netting. Skin would go through the holes in the netting, bulging out slightly. The tail also doesn’t seem to be in the hammock if that makes sense. I do like the small details of the knots in the strings of the hammock on the edge. In reality, having the strings knotted there would cause stress on the sides and it most likely would fall apart more easily. Woven hammocks have wefts that loop around the least warp in a way to give the edge extra strength because people sit on them frequently.
I do hope to see your next piece as I really like how you’ve rendered that line slice and the liquid in the other version.
Please excuse my verbose late night ramblings about physics and hammocks.
Damn, that was pretty in-depth. Nicely done!
What an amazing review, thank you for your nuanced analysis of hammock! ^^ It’s really a thoughtful and constructive critique. I will make a note of that for next time.
The net also doesn’t conform to her body very well, so she appears to be floating. When you sit on a hammock, the area where the butt is should be the lowest point, and the net would hug her body, like if you were to putt something heavy in a grocery bag. The lowest point currently is off to the side. Having it off to the side does create a nice flow and line of action to the picture, but she looks like she’s floating. A way to fix this would be to adjust the net on your right hand side to conform around her left knee which would would “shift her weight” and be closer to what you’ve already drawn. She also is floating because there is not contact between the character and the netting. Skin would go through the holes in the netting, bulging out slightly. The tail also doesn’t seem to be in the hammock if that makes sense. I do like the small details of the knots in the strings of the hammock on the edge. In reality, having the strings knotted there would cause stress on the sides and it most likely would fall apart more easily. Woven hammocks have wefts that loop around the least warp in a way to give the edge extra strength because people sit on them frequently.
I do hope to see your next piece as I really like how you’ve rendered that line slice and the liquid in the other version.
Please excuse my verbose late night ramblings about physics and hammocks.