Friday, June 18, 2010

Illustration Academy Hopeful


This piece (still in progress) is slated to be my entry in a contest to win a scholarship to next year's Illustration Academy. It's a bit of a departure from my usual working methods. I've still got some noodling to do, so I'll be posting the finished piece, along with some more "Monster City" comics a bit later.

4 comments:

James Clayton said...

Absolutely beautiful. Here's hoping that you get the scholarship that you deserve!

Justin Wheeler said...

Thats looking really great.

Derrick Dent said...

Thanks guys! I'm really excited about finishing this piece.

Marie Provence said...

The color choices are looking great so far. Try not to loose your value structure that you had, though. Its looking a bit dark. I also think it might look fantastic if you introduced some of that hair texture around the hand in more subtle tones around the rest of the figure. This might be a cheesy suggestion, but you might also try adding a tiny bit of a halo around the ship to make it look softer and illuminated. Be careful with the dark ships and the background because they're loosing a bit of the clarity I saw in the thumbnail... which may or may not be a bad thing.
Sorry for the super long crit. Can't wait to see what you do with it!