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She Who Remembers

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This is an illustration of The Mad Ship, by Robin Hobb.

◊Spoiler warning◊ for those who haven't read so far.





Wintrow finds the serpent She Who Remembers emprisoned in a cave on Treasure Beach (pages 775-778 of the UK paperback, in a chapter called "Oracle").

Photoshop, about 13 hours and the same number of crashes. :rage:
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:star::star::star::star::star: Overall
:star::star::star::star::star: Vision
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Hey, I finally finished Fool's Fate! So now I'm competent to critique! I think! <img src="e.deviantart.com/emoticons/b/b…" width="15" height="15" alt=":D" title=":D (Big Grin)" />

These three illustrations for Liveship Traders are actually my favourites from your Robin Hobb series. This one, I love for the colours and great composition - the way She Who Remembers looks at us out of that one eye through the prison bars is very cool. I also love the rocks - they remind me of some rock formations here in NZ, round Raglan. I am very jealous of your Photoshop painting skills! <img src="e.deviantart.com/emoticons/b/b…" width="15" height="15" alt=":D" title=":D (Big Grin)" /> I've just started putting in a bit more work with my tablet myself (illustrating - guess what - Robin Hobb!) - I'm not anywhere near being able to do something like that.

A couple of *very* minor quibbles (just because a critique has to have them): I think on the sides of the cave, you would need to indent the rocks a bit more - the shading suggests very deep grooves, but the line on the sides - particularly the bend on the right side - doesn't seem to follow that through.

I was also wondering about the white highlights on the rocks in front of the cave. Are they reflections of the rocks above on wet stone, or little waves lapping out of the cave? I decided that it must be the later, I reckon if it was reflections you would probably have to have some blue from the sky reflected as well. But that might destroy the very nice colour balance of the image... so don't mind me. I'm not a fan of to the letter realism anyway, as you probably know! <img src="e.deviantart.com/emoticons/s/s…" width="15" height="15" alt=":)" title=":) (Smile)" />