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✨ Happy New Year 2024.
With this illustration, I would like to wish you a calm and peaceful New Year.

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A fantasy landscape digital painting illustration built around the letter of 2024. The setting is in a deep forest. Two trees are shapes like the 2, the 0 is a hollow trunk with a mini book library in it, the 4 is a structure to do fishing on the pond in foreground. The ambiant is calm and relaxing. License: CC-By
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Red_Shirt_no2
Red_Shirt_no2  
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Is it bin day already?
Coralie Renée
Coralie Renée  
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Thank you so much. And those wishes are so very appropriate... 💖
madmax
madmax  
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The illustration looks amazing and Happy New Year to you too.
Marnic
Marnic  
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Bonne année @davidrevoy 🤗
@David Revoy
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smallcircles (Humanity Now 🕊)
smallcircles (Humanity Now 🕊)  
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your illustrations bring an element of calm, peace and wonder all on their own. They are delightful. Thank you, David, and wishing you a very Happy 2024!
Stemy
Stemy  
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Je crains que ces voeux de nouvel an ne pèchent par excès d'optimisme.😅
David Revoy
David Revoy  
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@stemy Oui oui, excès d'optimisme à 100%. :blobcheerbounce:
@Stemy
🌼 Dagnabbit, Pascaline! 🌼
🌼 Dagnabbit, Pascaline! 🌼  
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I would like to live in this ❤ Thanks for sharing 😊
Moini
Moini  
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Merci, David! Une Bonne Année à tous les contributeurs/trices de Pepper & Carrot!
Nartagnan ⏚
Nartagnan ⏚  
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Merci David,
je te souhaite de même.
Vee
Vee  
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Beautiful!
Happy New Year!
David Revoy
David Revoy  
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Process: (video under)
Sources: https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/viewer/misc__2024-01-01_new-year-illustration_by-David-Revoy.html
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New year illustration by David Revoy - Viewer - Pepper&Carrot

Official homepage of Pepper&Carrot, a free(libre) and open-source webcomic about Pepper, a young witch and her cat, Carrot. They live in a fantasy universe of potions, magic, and creatures.
Pepper&Carrot
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Júlio Gardona
Júlio Gardona  
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Your technique to transform values in colors is amazing and pricise. Mine always give-me strange colors. 😀
David Revoy
David Revoy  
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@jcbritobr Thanks! Oh yes this step is super delicate and I struggle a lot with it even if it is not super visible on the result. I'm sure if you slowdown frame per frame you'll find all the muddy steps, the one to burnt, un colorbalanced and the real battle 😆 But all in all, recently it's true I more or less know how to manage this step (even by a lot of trial and error). I try to do it before having too many details, so I can still paint-over and adjust/glaze color after.
@Júlio Gardona
Júlio Gardona
Júlio Gardona  
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I like this process. Hope this year I can really learn it. In my paintings I do it all in one layer and looking some color in wheel. At maximum following some gamut masks rules.
Eliot B
Eliot B  
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was that you working inside the tree trunk?
David Revoy
David Revoy  
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@bigblen Well observed! It was a tiny Pepper and Carrot 🙂 , but I found the illustration better without them around the end so I removed them.
@Eliot B
Vincent Cantin
Vincent Cantin  
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@bigblen It feels lonely now that I saw them inside then removed.

Nobody near the fishing pole as well. :meowUwuCry:​

@Eliot B
Ray Of Sunlight
Ray Of Sunlight  
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Praise the free as in freedom and open source software, thanks to them people can develop new skills free of charge and professionals like THIS GUY can make wonders without spending money on the DIRTY SUSCRIPTIONS.
Elzen
Elzen  
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Looks more peaceful than the dragons indeed!

Thanks, and happy new year to you too!

David Revoy
David Revoy  
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@elzen 😊 Oh yes, 2021, 2022, 2023 had dragons ( https://www.davidrevoy.com/tag/newyear ) it was time for a change. 🙂

Tag newyear - David Revoy

Website of David Revoy, artist and instructor using only Free/Libre and Open-Source software since 2009.
David Revoy
@Elzen
Elzen
Elzen  
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Indeed!

BTW, I just got the first Pepper & Carrot physical book for my birthday. I'll probably ask you a dedication next time 😉

David Revoy
David Revoy  
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@elzen :blobcatheart: Oh merci! Et avec plaisir!
@Elzen
Wolfger :v_pap:​:v_bi:​:v_gf:​:werewolf:​
Wolfger :v_pap:​:v_bi:​:v_gf:​:werewolf:​  
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Decided that doing last year's as a dragon was a mistake? LOL
David Revoy
David Revoy  
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@wolfger Haha, true. I decided I could probably start with a bit more optimism this year. My first sketch with ballpoint pen had crows, candle, crystal ball and a old grimoire. But I felt sad only looking at it (photo under), so I probably reacted into the opposite direction 🤣
A ballpoint pen drawing from my sketchbook: a first thumbnail of the 2024 with candle, a crow, a crystal ball and a book on a table.
@Wolfger :v_pap:​:v_bi:​:v_gf:​:werewolf:​
clacke: exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛
clacke: exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛  
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@David Revoy I was just going to ask!

Your process in the video looked surprisingly linear, so I figured you had some prototype, either in Krita or on paper, that you were working off.

@David Revoy
clacke: exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛
clacke: exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛  
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Still cool to see it wasn't entirely figured out, as you started with the small waterfall, changed to P&C and then finally went for the empty library.

I love how much you're sharing of your process and material, always fascinating to see even if I don't paint myself and won't make concrete use of it.

@David Revoy

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David Revoy
David Revoy  
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@clacke Thanks! Yes, 🙂 I like to prototype on my sketchbook; it's a good way to put an idea on paper and see if it is a brainfart or something a bit deeper.
It also helps me to keep focus when I start Krita: I work better with a target. If I don't, I can paint-over and change ideas forever during the first steps 😅 Thanks for noticing all the little changes on the process!
@clacke: exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛
Robert
Robert  
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happy New Year 🎊
Vincent Cantin
Vincent Cantin  
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Thank for this cheerful drawing 🥳
Nik 🏳️‍⚧️ (he/they)
Nik 🏳️‍⚧️ (he/they)  
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Happy new year! Beautiful work. Thank you also for sharing your process.
Ozarill
Ozarill  
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Merci ! ✨ Bonne année !, tous mes meilleurs vœux de bonheur !!
Fea Crow
Fea Crow  
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That is so pretty 👏 And thank you, same to you 🙂
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anedroid
anedroid  
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Happy New Year, I just discovered Pepper & Carrot recently, read through it, and I really like it. Keep going!
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