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It looks so pretty and romantic!!!!
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yeah I like this dress design too XD
Second, I am struck by the attention to details (especially for a traditional media piece!), from the dress and beads to decorative flowers and patterned drapery. The hair is lovely, and I appreciate the transparency of her veils. It's a soft touch and adds depth and interest, and not everyone thinks of it.
The colour scheme is very cool (as opposed to warm), which I think would be more suited to the original concept of dancing at midnight rather than sunset. The only really warm tones I see here are in the strip of land behind them (beach perhaps), the wooden beam across the top, and a tinge of a warmer blue near the horizon line. For me, this is counter-purpose to the lovely swirling motion you have throughout the rest of the piece. The warm colours create contrast with the cool and draw the eye in a very horizontal way along those strips (land/horizon line/wooden beam), which can take the viewer off the page and make the background jump forward a bit. If they were washed over with a cooler tone to make them fade a bit, I think that would help to prevent them from distracting the gaze or tweaking foreground/background perspective.
Related to that is the busyness that another critic pointed out--something I struggle with myself. Since everything so cool and largely from the same palette, the foreground and background are competing for attention. There are a lot of solutions to that, but one popular one is to use atmospheric perspective to recede objects into the distance with even cooler, less saturated tones, while the foreground pops with vibrant, slightly warmer hues.
I love that your lines are varied and more painterly than the usual for the genre, which--to me--gives it a charming, folk-tale feel, like it could be an illustration of an ancient fairy tale.
Lastly, as much as I appreciate the richness and technique, I'm a little removed from the emotional impact by their fairly basic expressions and poses. While still lovely, the heart of the piece could be kicked up a notch by powerful, dramatic figures and expressions; it would also suit the mood, which is itself romantically dramatic.
Overall a very appealing work!
Her dress is wonderful. Her hair (and his too) is flawless, it has a great contrast and movement, and and the amount of brightness adds a special touch to it, that's the point that caught my attention the most. The curtain is also very well done, nice contrast and the fabric pattern in another tone of the same color left it even more beautiful. I Also like how the flowers were made.
The negative points are basically the colors and part of her anatomy. The work is too colorful. I think when you make a work full of details like this, you must use a less flashy color scheme, otherwise the piece gets a bit confusing, with 'too much information'. It would be amazing if you had used a warm color scheme in this piece, just a suggestion. I love the big sun in the background but the sunset looks more like a night sky as you know.
As for anatomy, her face is perfect, but I think the arm is a bit too thin and too long. Her legs seems a bit weird, I don't know exactly what it is, guess her thighs are too much long maybe, and the thighs shape seems not right at all. The boy's hand is a little too big, his clothes are pretty but a bit difficult to understand.
It's a work that portrays romance in a very beautiful way, it just needs an improvement in the points mentioned.
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