Think Draw - Picture - California Condor (comments?)

Title: California Condor (comments?)
created on 22 Mar 09

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Comments on this picture (21):
1. mostblessedone wrote: I would love to know how some of you would have approached this pic.
2. mostblessedone wrote: Also, See the blue shining through his neck? That started popping in long after I was past that point. What's with that?
3. matthew wrote: These are one amazingly large birds... You have captured it perfectly...
4. matthew wrote: He is an old bird... You took so long to draw him that he developed age spots... Loved watching the play back on this...
5. matthew wrote: Seriously, I have this issue a lot with my multilayered pics... Once you reach a certain number of layered pieces, you can't even cross over that area with a piece even if you don't place it anywhere near that area... There seems to be no rhyme or reason
6. matthew wrote: to determine how many layers you can do before this issue pops up... sometimes just a few & sometimes it never happens...
7. sheftali52 wrote: wow--blue spots and all, this is great!
8. lilalee wrote: He's beautiful!!
9. five wrote: You did an excellent job! One thing I might do different (since you asked) is a sharper beak but I may be wrong in my memory of condors. Definitely a 5, either way.
10. NINA wrote: Excellent, blue spots or not!
11. kmkagle wrote: Like you picture. I think birds would be difficult to draw. You did a lovely job on this condor.
12. mostblessedone wrote: Five, you are right about the beak. I couldn't find a way to pull it off. Also had a hard time getting good curve on condor's right shoulder. Sometimes I would sure love to be able to change the angle on pieces.
13. five wrote: Sometimes it's impossible to get the right piece without resorting to covering up with other pieces :) For what it's worth after the fact, For the beak you could try building a whitish beak from the white horns and slightly changing the angle of the head
14. five wrote: Sometimes it's impossible to get the right piece without resorting to covering up with other pieces :) For what it's worth after the fact, For the beak you could try building a whitish beak from the white horns and slightly changing the angle of the head
15. five wrote: to give the illusion of a pointier beak while maintaining the blue sky. Changing the bird's angle slightly might also help with the shoulder (not sure). It's a really good drawing
16. lynnspotter wrote: Amazing pic!
17. Login wrote: Superb!
18. nancylee wrote: Yes, it is wonderful!
19. Qsilv wrote: wowww... so smoothly done, pieces all so well chosen, this really is among the best of the best. Beak? it just reads as foreshortened. Blue? oh that's reflection! (grins)
20. Qsilv wrote: ok, I may pose this in Forum too, but let's start here-- did you notice the blue spots happening right away? or not until after you'd completed that area? I suspect you may be able to beat it by going back to just a little before it happens, installing a
21. Qsilv wrote: different piece or two somewhere(even if you have to cover them up)and then continuing as you'd been going to. (It's bound to be a math error in the alpha channel - the trick is how to defeat it.)