Solstice

[Cerebr4l]

Solstice

Photoshop CS2
Wacom Cintiq

I hope you guys enjoy this one. I've been working on this piece off and on for a while now and it is finally to a point I am happy with it. Enjoy! (Comments welcome)

[Giacomo]

Looks great. You might want to shift the background color to something that's not the same as the girl. Also, blurring or darkening parts of the image might really help to create focus:

http://home.earthlink.net/~bucket/Solstice_ret.jpg

[DigitalProselyte]

Nice. I like it. I think the background works as is.

[Cerebr4l]

Thanks for the comments guys.

As for the background and focus... I can see why you would think that a contrasting background would bring the character forward more but I wanted the character to appear as if she is in this particular environment. If it was red then she would be more of a redish color because of the lighting.

As for focus, it might be hard to notice (because they are out of focus) but there are things in the forground (the tree to the left and branch in the middle) that are there to try to add depth. I didn't want to blur the character too much as it is the focus of the piece. I did blur her hair and some of the background feathers though.

Thanks again.