This post is for an in-progress critique. I feel that it is pretty close to complete / resolved. I decided to keep the open space on the lower left panel and write a haiku about the images. Growth of life can be Full of unknown and known Blessings are made clear I used natural brush filters and effects to make the middle and right images look like a painting, and then used my Wacom tablet to hand-paint the background and around the figures. I also used the Wacom tablet to completely draw the Ultrasound image. I used yellow in the middle panel to represent the fear I felt at and right before the birth due to the high-risk pregnancy I had, as well as the emergency c-section delivery. I chose the use of the blue color for the right panel to represent the calm and good health of our present day.
I decided to work on the illustration for The Gemini Virus, as I didn't get any feedback since my last post and I felt strongly about this story. I looked up hospital rooms on this royalty free image site, Pixabay.com, to set a base for my illustration. Here's the original image: Here's my progress on adjusting the image and creating an illustration:
Hey Guys and Gals! After Ed's comment and a conversation we had I think I'm going to work on a few images and lay them out into either a graphic novel panel/page or a promo poster for the novel which would express a few scenes from the story instead of one scene. Updated Image: First of all, I added the patient on the hospital bed and have included some reflective light from the monitors. I have also desaturated the red linen cart and blue oxygen tank that are close to the observation window, as those colors were drawing attention away from the patient and the observers at the window. One thing to note in this scene is that in the book the patient is covered in full-body puss-filled vesicles and blisters. She is described to be covered up to her neck in the hospital blanket, which has wet yellow spots all over from the bursting blisters (I warned ya'll it was graphic). Before going out of her mind the 7-months-pregnant woman tried to cut her baby out in order to sav...
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