Art of Camouflage

[OneWithProzac]

This is the first time I've submitted any work here, so let's see how this goes.

During this last semester in my ACAP (Applied Communication Arts Program) class in college, my professor of Illustration assigned our class with the project of using Adobe Illustrator to create a piece of work with animals hidden in the world around them.

This is what I submitted to my teacher:

http://ic1.deviantart.com/fs13/f/2007/023/9/d/Butterfly_amoung_the_leaves_by_OneWithProzac.jpg
If you can't tell, it's a butterfly or moth? on a bed of dry leaves.

It's a little large, sorry for that. Anyway, chosen as best in the class and submitted into an art show at a Nova Scotia art exhibit, it's one of the works that I pride myself in. It took days to do based on the amount of colour and odd places to fill in. It's also one of the pictures that was issued into my entrance portfolio for next year in Graphic Design. I got in :)

So although it's since been marked, I just wanted to get the impressions of other artists. I once tried to submit it to Deviant Art, but since it wasn't teeming with fanart, it was not viewed by anyone other than fellow art students in my class.
Critique if you like :)

[Angroc]

This is cool. However, there are brown gaps here nd there I think you should fill in. Like th big one at the left of the picture, and the samller ones above it. Aside, from that, I really like it. Its an interesting topic indeed, and could lead way to a cool image series.

[OneWithProzac]

This is cool. However, there are brown gaps here nd there I think you should fill in. Like th big one at the left of the picture, and the samller ones above it. Aside, from that, I really like it. Its an interesting topic indeed, and could lead way to a cool image series.

Brown gaps? You mean the black parts around the leaves?

[Angroc]

Brown gaps? You mean the black parts around the leaves?


by gaps, I mean places that have too little variation compared to the gaps size, compared to the general detailed-ness in the picture. but you know, I am only talking about how i percieved the picture, and too me, it really stood out.

[OneWithProzac]

by gaps, I mean places that have too little variation compared to the gaps size, compared to the general detailed-ness in the picture. but you know, I am only talking about how i percieved the picture, and too me, it really stood out.

Ah, that's what I thought you were referring too. The gaps in there are the same ones I kept when I looked at my reference picture of the leaves. It's a lot of shadow in the picture. I'd change it but then it wouldn't correctly display what I made.

[Angroc]

well yeah, kind of, 'cuase it would still be your interpretation of it, with added elements to make it better in a aestethic composition of your taste. just like you have made that 'flat' colour scheme, you can also freel add such details, to adjust the composition, you know? or do you totaly disagree? :) could you post the ref picture, by any chance?

it doesnt have to be leaves there, just something to break up the flatness of it. maybe just more shades of grey.

and I asked a guy in my class, and he agreed with me. ;) (and he digged it!)

[OneWithProzac]

well yeah, kind of, 'cuase it would still be your interpretation of it, with added elements to make it better in a aestethic composition of your taste. just like you have made that 'flat' colour scheme, you can also freel add such details, to adjust the composition, you know? or do you totaly disagree? :)

it doesnt have to be leaves there, just something to break up the flatness of it. maybe just more shades of grey.

Oh trust me, if my class was allowed to have a less constricted project, I would have done a lot more. Our teacher demanded that we find a ref picture and do it as identical as we possible could.

But I understand what you mean. I think maybe adding the leaf look darkened in those spots would be better, rather than the solid black.