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Kilika Island

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My first drawing with my galaxy note ! Kilika Island from Final Fantasy X.

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Work in progress :


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Time : 5h
Software : autodesk sketchbook pro
Hardware : galaxy note 10.1
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:star::star::star::star-half::star-empty: Overall
:star::star::star::star::star-half: Vision
:star::star::star::star-empty::star-empty: Originality
:star::star::star::star-empty::star-empty: Technique
:star::star::star::star-half::star-empty: Impact

When I look at your picture, it gives me an idea of movement. Let's begin the walk...
I am on the pontoon, looking at the two huts. Their black windows seem to look back at me. They are making fun of me with their tongue-like staircases, while their leaves flutter like green hair. I want to follow the path. First, I was at the level where the axes intersect each stairs (the stairs in my head are almost perfect perpendicular). Now, I appear to stand at the second perpendicular, the one of the pontoon. When I was simply looking at this drawing I saw this tree almost in the middle. Now I see better, there is a natural gateway formed by two trees. These two trees stand at the threshold where two new trails are reaching each other. This impression of motion is still here, I almost feel like going and exploring the trails into the forest, but it's so dark... The two trees make me think of guardians of a sort of inviolable sanctuary where I would not be welcome. And since I am now in the middle of the dock, I can watch on my right and left, the clear and smooth water. Like a mirror, it reflects the surrounding vegetation. And here's a new thing that troubles me, because when I look in the water, I feel the scene is harmless. I raise my eyes. Beyond the vegelal door, the trees are thin, as linked by lianas. Together they form a large spider, both vegetal like and gloomy. I had gone too far, must have been mesmerized by the reflection in the water. The last choice I have : to follow the path on the left or on the right. I had walked through the vegetal door and the forest seems to call me more than ever before. This is the end of the drawing. We can not guess what is hidden deeper. Dizzy traveler, now you're lost in there and you will not be released, until the world you entered would take a new reality, that of the imagination and talent of your benefactor...
I have rated 4.5/5 for vision because we can see more than one level of complexity in the drawing and I love the geometry of the scene (the layout ot the two huts, the gateway made of the two trees, the pontoon crossing the water).

This drawing continues the FF series. It depicts a landscape but this time without any character. That in itself is something interesting. What would be less natural in a video game that one without any living being at all ? As the walker above, we are invited to get involved in this supernatural landscape and imagine the rest of the story.
In addition, this drawing gives a new angle : the original landscape reflected a single tone whereas this one makes us experiment at least two (first of light and then of darkness).
I have rated 3/5 for originality because I think it's truly original comparing to the reference. I didn't rate more because I can recall over drawings that came completely out of your mind and surprised me all the more !

From a technical point of view, we can only praise the effort of drawing on such a new tool. Furthermore a tool that involves thinking to restrict certain uses (the use of layers for example). In addition, it seems that you get to draw a very good quality picture on a mobile device, and what's more in less time. Which is definitely for me a great performance !
I love the way you make the wood of the two huts. The color and lighting give me the impression of a varnished wood, stronger than the original one. However, I feel that the overall lighting reveals too much white : mainly the leaves of the huts and the tree in the middle. Another point is that it seems impossible to me to get such dark environment after such brightness in the surroundings. On the other hand it gives way more intensity to the supernatural landscape. The material of the pontoon and trails pleases me and convinces me completely.
I have rated 3/5 for technique because it must have been difficult to cope with a new tool and this drawing is surely of good quality. Nevertheless, I think the lighting is made with too much white.

Finally, this drawing makes me think of the Valefore one in the same series. It provides a new idea though. The drawing of Valefore expressed a feeling of strength, hiding in the tranquility and beauty of the landscape. Here, the lack of character seems to reveal the presence of an immaterial entity. The light and darkness of the scene tend to be two sides of the same entity. But here, theses two sides are not hidden. This is the entity itself which isn't there. All this may keep me from thinking about this drawing for fear !
I have rated 3.5/5 for the impact because I was able to think about the complexity of the drawing and I like it. The fact that I compared it to the Valefore one is very good (I fell in love with your Valefore's drawing !). Yet, I think that the feelings coming out from the Valefore's drawing are strong (beauty, peace and force) and that this drawing can't definitely enrirely catch them up.