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Beach Bonfire

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Willet 1592, squidina's Ruin 1350 and comixqueen's Yaroslav 1867 team up to bring down Bones 2432.  Sandstone cliffs and pine chaparral based on the natural beaches of Southern California.  Unfortunately for Bones, that environment is highly flammable.  

AP Count for Willet
Full body, colored, shaded-4
Background, biorhythm-3
Added member stryx-2
Personal art-1
Total: 10

AP Count for Ruin
Full body, colored, shaded-4
Background, biorhythm-3
Total: 7

AP Count for Yaroslav
Full body, colored, shaded-4
Background-2
Total: 6
Image size
2217x1636px 1.36 MB
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:woohoo: Go Yaro!


I love this composition! Very energetic! :D


Quick critique for future pieces: don't be afraid to punch the contrast on your pieces, especially in settings like night or compositions with fire. It took me a while to learn this myself, but don't be afraid to lose certain details of your pieces in the dark; dramatic lighting can make up for what is lost in darkness, even enhance a composition for it.
In fact, with a composition such as this, with the soft, distant light source of the moon, and the intense light source of the fire, you can play with dramatic lighting to really give your art some umph, if that makes sense. The trick with depicting fire is to keep in mind that it is a light source, and the light it casts is going to be brighter that the subject if falls on. Check out how intense the orange/yellow of the fire is in this pic, and how it seems to override all other light sources: www.expressandstar.com/wpmvc/w… see how the colors of the fire go from white to yellow to orange from the inside out?
Check out this pic oddstuffmagazine.com/wp-conten… Look at how the orange light of the fire sort of "washes over" the figures, and even the ground, creating that stark contrast between the firelight and the darkness of the shadows/areas not in the path of light. Also notice how, with the intense contrast of warm light and sudden dark, it is very difficult to distinguish the local base colors, such as the figures' clothes, for example.

Actually, may I play around with this piece in photoshop a bit? Just to try punching the contrast on the lights and shadows.