I'm not sure how helpful this will be, but feel free to take form it whatever you want and to ignore anything that doesn't fit your style, tools, available time and tastes. But for what it's worth, there's some things with this drawing's colours that caught my attention.
The main thing I wanted to say for this piece is that it's a bit of a pity that Merlin's neckerchief, shirt and the grapes he is holding are all the same generic hue, because that makes it just that bit harder to see from first glance or from afar what is going on, while it doesn't add to the mood of the piece. Merlin does wear blue shirts, and blue-grey neckerchiefs, but almost never at the same time, because it would kind of blurs into a single blob of colour when he did and we would loose the identifying effect that the combination of the two pieces of clothing have. Not seeing the neckerchief on the first go makes it harder to guess if he's wearing canon or modern clothes, here (though I'm fairly sure it is, because of his boots). On a bit of a similar way, Arthur has never worn green in the show as far as I can remember, so it's rather starling to see him in a green tunic while he seemed to only own white, blue and red shades of shirts. When doing canon-time pieces, I recommend going the simplest route and picking out an outfit they wore in any of the episodes. It would also help you include any number of details to the clothing, and I've seen how including more details in your drawing really brings them to life.
Colours in images, like shading, are often used to induce a mood, and to help items stand out from each other. Here, the grapes also don't stand out from their background colour since their hue are so close. (Right now, what makes them most distinctive and draws our attention to the grapes at all, despite them being essential to the comprehension of the piece, are the contrasts made by Merlin's hand and the leaf.) Green-yellow or red grapes, in opposition, would have stood out a lot on against the blue. It's often really silly little things like that that can liven up drawings a lot. If you want to go further, you could pick your colours through a colour wheel, or mixing the colours to create a definite palette, but starting with simply contrasting colours will already make every element stand out much more. =)
Otherwise, I was wondering, have you mixed digital painting over a scanned pencil drawing? If so, is there a reason for this? Depending on why, and if you'd like to continue hearing me about anything on this, I could offer one or two more pointers.
Let me know if any of this could help you, or if there was some other specific thing you'd not mind a second opinion on. Is there anything in particular that's been giving you trouble that you know of? Your drawings are always cute and have this tender feel to them, they are always lovely to see no matter what! Thank you again for sharing them with us. ^__^
Thank you so much! (and sorry, it took ages for me to get online :< ) You comment has been really, really helpful, you have no idea! Seriously, you don't know how much this means to me, that an artist like you helps me out with everything... It's pure gold. I do appreciate the effort you put to point out everything and write it down, I'm going to cherish this and keep all your advices in mind. I shall make a revised version of the drawing with your inputs! <3 Thank you very much, again!
I'm not sure how helpful this will be, but feel free to take form it whatever you want and to ignore anything that doesn't fit your style, tools, available time and tastes. But for what it's worth, there's some things with this drawing's colours that caught my attention.
The main thing I wanted to say for this piece is that it's a bit of a pity that Merlin's neckerchief, shirt and the grapes he is holding are all the same generic hue, because that makes it just that bit harder to see from first glance or from afar what is going on, while it doesn't add to the mood of the piece. Merlin does wear blue shirts, and blue-grey neckerchiefs, but almost never at the same time, because it would kind of blurs into a single blob of colour when he did and we would loose the identifying effect that the combination of the two pieces of clothing have. Not seeing the neckerchief on the first go makes it harder to guess if he's wearing canon or modern clothes, here (though I'm fairly sure it is, because of his boots). On a bit of a similar way, Arthur has never worn green in the show as far as I can remember, so it's rather starling to see him in a green tunic while he seemed to only own white, blue and red shades of shirts. When doing canon-time pieces, I recommend going the simplest route and picking out an outfit they wore in any of the episodes. It would also help you include any number of details to the clothing, and I've seen how including more details in your drawing really brings them to life.
Colours in images, like shading, are often used to induce a mood, and to help items stand out from each other. Here, the grapes also don't stand out from their background colour since their hue are so close. (Right now, what makes them most distinctive and draws our attention to the grapes at all, despite them being essential to the comprehension of the piece, are the contrasts made by Merlin's hand and the leaf.) Green-yellow or red grapes, in opposition, would have stood out a lot on against the blue. It's often really silly little things like that that can liven up drawings a lot. If you want to go further, you could pick your colours through a colour wheel, or mixing the colours to create a definite palette, but starting with simply contrasting colours will already make every element stand out much more. =)
Otherwise, I was wondering, have you mixed digital painting over a scanned pencil drawing? If so, is there a reason for this? Depending on why, and if you'd like to continue hearing me about anything on this, I could offer one or two more pointers.
Let me know if any of this could help you, or if there was some other specific thing you'd not mind a second opinion on. Is there anything in particular that's been giving you trouble that you know of? Your drawings are always cute and have this tender feel to them, they are always lovely to see no matter what! Thank you again for sharing them with us. ^__^
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