07-12-2016, 11:02 AM
Good start man. Did a paintover.
First thing I did was adjust the comp. I had her face into the canvas, adjusted tree silhouettes that were tangents and added some other points of interest (skeletons coming out of ground and in the trees) to add more to flesh out your narrative. Her pose is pretty good, just watch the near foot, the arch of it is really not working.
I used your lineart and blocked in some bold colours before thinking about any detail at all. I tend to think about broad temperature relationships when I do this. What will be cooler, what will be warmer? The cooler surroundings contrast with her slightly warmer tone. That was intentional contrast. You can also start to think about broad form lighting at this stage. You can also refine the overall colour pallette by trying different things at this stage quite quickly since it is easy to colour balance and adjust values, mood of the entire image before you even start detailing. For example I adjusted values of your piece to pop her out a bit more against a darker overall background for contrast.
For basic palette and mood don't expect it to magically fart out of your head just because you gathered reference and did some studies. Look for other paintings or images that have the mood/palette you want to go for...analyze them and apply that consciously to your scene. Some potential refs I found that I might have used for the figure, general lighting.
Your image is overall pretty desaturated. This is what is making it look quite gray and dull overall. There is also less colour variation within the hues in there. Again the problem with relying on too many photo studies is it can often give you this kind of colour result unless you bring in your own colour theory and observation from life. The lighting is pretty ambient and not very dynamic which also flattens things. I tried to push that more in the paintover.
Take your colour picker and analyze the LOTC pieces you posted earlier. They are way more saturated overall I would bet. Again this is analysis for a specific purpose. You don't always have to paint to learn. Start doing this with any reference you are using to understand value/hue relationships. When it comes to detailing that's when you can do more direct painted studies for the rendering.
it's a good base for an image...just work the larger problems first, then slowly get to the smaller problems as you go. You can do it man, don't give up!
First thing I did was adjust the comp. I had her face into the canvas, adjusted tree silhouettes that were tangents and added some other points of interest (skeletons coming out of ground and in the trees) to add more to flesh out your narrative. Her pose is pretty good, just watch the near foot, the arch of it is really not working.
I used your lineart and blocked in some bold colours before thinking about any detail at all. I tend to think about broad temperature relationships when I do this. What will be cooler, what will be warmer? The cooler surroundings contrast with her slightly warmer tone. That was intentional contrast. You can also start to think about broad form lighting at this stage. You can also refine the overall colour pallette by trying different things at this stage quite quickly since it is easy to colour balance and adjust values, mood of the entire image before you even start detailing. For example I adjusted values of your piece to pop her out a bit more against a darker overall background for contrast.
For basic palette and mood don't expect it to magically fart out of your head just because you gathered reference and did some studies. Look for other paintings or images that have the mood/palette you want to go for...analyze them and apply that consciously to your scene. Some potential refs I found that I might have used for the figure, general lighting.
Your image is overall pretty desaturated. This is what is making it look quite gray and dull overall. There is also less colour variation within the hues in there. Again the problem with relying on too many photo studies is it can often give you this kind of colour result unless you bring in your own colour theory and observation from life. The lighting is pretty ambient and not very dynamic which also flattens things. I tried to push that more in the paintover.
Take your colour picker and analyze the LOTC pieces you posted earlier. They are way more saturated overall I would bet. Again this is analysis for a specific purpose. You don't always have to paint to learn. Start doing this with any reference you are using to understand value/hue relationships. When it comes to detailing that's when you can do more direct painted studies for the rendering.
it's a good base for an image...just work the larger problems first, then slowly get to the smaller problems as you go. You can do it man, don't give up!