Final Fantasy XII (Vaan/Penelo)

[jpegasus.livejournal.com]

Title: Airship Maintenance: Serious Business.
Artist: maho_kiwi
Rating: G
File size: 1010x517, 100k
A/N: Prompt: #23 Final Fantasy XII, Vaan/Penelo: Mechanics, engineering - in the belly of the airship

Comments

[jpegasus.livejournal.com]

yaay! That is good. I'm glad it doesn't lose any of it's goodness by being previously-viewed. I worry about that, when showing pics or wips to people before I'm supposed to post them. Like, having a few lines from a story and then getting the complete thing is different from having the whole image without color, and then the whole image with color. One is more finished, sure, but you've still "seen" it. >->;

\o/

[laylah.livejournal.com]

I don't think it's all that different -- especially with the amount of richness and detail that the colors add in a piece like this. There's so much depth added when all the color and shading comes in.

...Part of this, I'm sure, is that I'm not an artist, and so the coloring process is still sort of magical to me. ^^

[jpegasus.livejournal.com]

well, I'm glad for that, at least.

I guess to me, it feel like seeing the picture is a lot of the punch to the image. Like the climatic scene. You wouldn't want to show that off prior to posting the story.
So showing, say, a sketch of something that will eventually be colored and have a fabulous detailed background seems okay, but then showing an image that only lacks color feels like a lot of that punch has been taken out. People have already seen it, so it doesn't feel like the interest will be there.

Like posting an un-betaed, un-edited version, and then the clean version. The one is better than the other, but most people aren't going to take the time for the second one, because they already know what's going to happen, doesn't matter that it's going to happen better in the second go-round.

Of course, I'm neurotic, so.