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Legion Sketches - Legion Brewer - 02-11-2016
My first post here! This is a dragon and knight WIP. I think I'm ready to move to color. Any feedback is most welcome.
RE: Legion Sketches - Hobitt - 02-11-2016
Welcome to crimson daggers! as for the piece there is too much contrast, but overall not a bad painting, i would suggest looking into how local values work and how to light basic forms (cube,sphere etc.) study this things on their own so you don't need to deal with the variables, also drawing draw draw draw as much as you can. Looking forward to more!
RE: Legion Sketches - Legion Brewer - 02-11-2016
Thanks for the welcome and suggestions! The contrast should be a fairly easy fix, I punched it up a bit with a levels layer, so I can knock it back, and reassess. I totally agree with your basics advice. I always try to work both, fundamentals and more finished pieces. Either way its a good reminder to get back to work. Thanks again!
RE: Legion Sketches - nutriman - 02-12-2016
I think local color was a very good tip!!
Right now you have everything background, figure, creature covering almost the same range of values.
That doesn't give a good read on the picture. So do use different local values while staying consistent with the lighting.
Zoom way until it's a thumbnail out and if someone who hasn't seen the pic before can instantly tell what's on it - that's a good read. :)
RE: Legion Sketches - Legion Brewer - 02-12-2016
(02-12-2016, 01:03 AM)nutriman Wrote: I think local color was a very good tip!!
Right now you have everything background, figure, creature covering almost the same range of values.
That doesn't give a good read on the picture. So do use different local values while staying consistent with the lighting.
Zoom way until it's a thumbnail out and if someone who hasn't seen the pic before can instantly tell what's on it - that's a good read. :)
Whoa, lightbulb just went on. So, essentially I should choose an appropriate value range for each element in the piece and light it according to the range in order to make a distinction between things. I'm not sure why this hasn't occurred to me yet, but thanks for reinforcing it. It went over my head in Hobitts post. Really happy I came here to post, learning things already.
RE: Legion Sketches - Ankit_draws - 02-12-2016
(02-11-2016, 07:56 AM)Legion Brewer Wrote: My first post here! This is a dragon and knight WIP. I think I'm ready to move to color. Any feedback is most welcome.like people's have mentioned
you need to use full value range. your piece is good composition wise
but it's all mid tones
-separate the background from the subject
-dragon and the character will have different values
-don't go full white and full black
hope that helps
RE: Legion Sketches - nutriman - 02-12-2016
(02-12-2016, 12:07 PM)Legion Brewer Wrote: Whoa, lightbulb just went on. So, essentially I should choose an appropriate value range for each element in the piece and light it according to the range in order to make a distinction between things. I'm not sure why this hasn't occurred to me yet, but thanks for reinforcing it. It went over my head in Hobitts post. Really happy I came here to post, learning things already.
Exactly!! Glad I could help :)
RE: Legion Sketches - Legion Brewer - 02-17-2016
Black armor study.
RE: Legion Sketches - Legion Brewer - 02-17-2016
Some studies I did recently.
RE: Legion Sketches - Legion Brewer - 02-29-2016
I've started another workshop with Xia Taptara, and it's really fun despite it having just started. Here are some dwarf themed comps I've worked on so far.
RE: Legion Sketches - cgmythology - 03-01-2016
Nice studies overall, particularly enjoy your use of values... Compositions are quite strong as well!
RE: Legion Sketches - Legion Brewer - 03-02-2016
(03-01-2016, 11:23 AM)cgmythology Wrote: Nice studies overall, particularly enjoy your use of values... Compositions are quite strong as well!
Thanks man, I appreciate that!
RE: Legion Sketches - Legion Brewer - 03-02-2016
Did a helm study. 2 hours for this one.
RE: Legion Sketches - cgmythology - 03-02-2016
Looking good, you captured the material quite well I must say!
RE: Legion Sketches - Legion Brewer - 03-03-2016
(03-02-2016, 11:41 PM)cgmythology Wrote: Looking good, you captured the material quite well I must say!
Thanks again!
RE: Legion Sketches - Legion Brewer - 03-03-2016
Lute study today Working on some Bard comps, so he will be playing something like this. Another 2 hrs...
And some Necromancer comps. These still need some work.
RE: Legion Sketches - Legion Brewer - 03-04-2016
Female Skull Study, 2 hrs maybe a bit longer.
RE: Legion Sketches - Adzerak - 03-07-2016
Cool thumbnails you've got there! Some good compositions and imagination going on in there :)
Don't be afraid to go a little darker with the stuff in the foreground tho, in order to really push the values and the depth, like this one here by Feng Zhu https://s3.amazonaws.com/fengzhudesign/images/fzd_website_image_10.jpg
RE: Legion Sketches - Legion Brewer - 03-07-2016
(03-07-2016, 09:08 AM)Adzerak Wrote: Cool thumbnails you've got there! Some good compositions and imagination going on in there :)
Don't be afraid to go a little darker with the stuff in the foreground tho, in order to really push the values and the depth, like this one here by Feng Zhu https://s3.amazonaws.com/fengzhudesign/images/fzd_website_image_10.jpg
Ah Feng Zhu, so awesome. Thanks for the praise and advice, I appreciate that. I was given value restrictions for the most recent comps I did, since its for a workshop, but either way I will keep that in mind. Thanks!
RE: Legion Sketches - Legion Brewer - 03-07-2016
Part of this weeks homework. Some arctic cave and glacier studies, from photo reference. 1 hour for each. More coming soon!