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Fire and Flight remastered; p1
by Woodbee
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Ah, limited palette plays SO NICE with these lines! The Father Tree Press edition got that right, even if the later digital coloring better captured the glow that Wendy wanted.
Minor tweaks only. Traced, inked, recolored for my own fulfillment.
Posted June 26, 2025, 07:47:12 PM
Bear Shaman, drummer, dancers, Redlance's arm
Minor tweaks only. Traced, inked, recolored for my own fulfillment.
Posted June 26, 2025, 07:47:12 PM
Bear Shaman, drummer, dancers, Redlance's arm
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Amberfox
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Comment #1 - Posted June 26, 2025, 09:22:57 PM
Well, the red color palette does really emphasize the mood of the scene. I admire how much time you put into all of these traced covers and pages from the original Quest. Did you do so for any of the others? Did it help with understanding Pini's style and or overall coloring? When I first started drawing EQ elves, I traced, which helped me understand the proportions of the bodies and facial features. Over time, I worked in my own style and aspects I picked up from other artists that I liked.
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Woodbee
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Comment #2 - Posted June 26, 2025, 09:56:06 PM
When I do Pini-style work, I have to keep going back to the original material and finding something to trace, to make my hand and eye remember the proportions of head, hair, and bodies. If I don't, my proportions migrate steadily towards more human standard. And yeah, I learned a LOT about coloring from these. I was really, really not great at balancing hue and value, for a long time. Working on this taught me that the hue is actually pretty unimportant. Sure, it can indicate mood, but what really makes a piece read from across the room is how you arrange your lights and darks.
I've done 48 pages of FaF, almost enough to get to the healing of Redlance. My favorites were the caverns of the trolls, and the most difficult were the fire in the Holt and the desert. Augh the desert. |
Marl
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Comment #3 - Posted June 27, 2025, 04:29:28 PM
I agree with the sentiment of desert! Also the transition from present to past is really cool!
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Treefox
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Comment #4 - Posted July 02, 2025, 11:01:47 PM
Yes, great strong contrast! I should also learn from that! The transition to the past is brilliant, almost like spilling over into the past. Interesting that you added kids to the listeners as the Shaman tells the story.
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Woodbee
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Comment #5 - Posted July 11, 2025, 12:17:12 PM
It made sense to me - one of the reasons the humans are so dangerous to the elves is that they produce more humans much faster than the elves produce more elves. They've got high enough survival rates they're constantly expanding. So, yeah, the hunters, the young men and men in their prime, are dancing for the sacrifice, while the old spiritual leader invokes the gods, women drum, and a veteran who can no longer dance shares the tribe's knowledge with the young! It's definitely not enough to be the full tribe here in the shot, but I wanted it to *feel* like a full tribe, you know?
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Treefox
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Comment #6 - Posted July 16, 2025, 12:09:11 AM
I get it! It makes a lot of sense and I love how "whole" this feels. I wonder if Wendy didn't include women here, because she felt that this kind of society would exclude them from this kind of ritual? I'm probably thinking too much about this.
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