Hobitt-hole

[John]

What I'm about to say is just a matter of preference. 

It feels like the values are too close to each other.. It's hard to tell that the guy in yellow is holding a sword when it's zoomed a bit far out. I think it would do the piece some justice if the values are more spread apart. 

There's a grayness to your piece due to lack of vibrancy, not sure if it's intentional. I think it's a nice way of pointing out that the story is set in a lush environment if the whole thing is given more color.

Not sure how much of the paint over will help.. 


I gave (or over-exaggerated) the temperatures on this one. I played with the Curves Layer and I gave the shadows more of a blue tone to show that it gets a bit of light from the blue sky rather than the primary source which is the yellow orange-y sun (which I also bumped up a bit)..

Gave the yellow guy's sword some shine.

I softened some edges that kept catching my eye.

To add. I gave the crab part the most contrast because that's the main thing I'd want to present to people. 

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If there's any more questions to this, or any thing you think that may seem wrong in what I did, I'm open for discussing this with you.

I got to say, outside your studies, you're becoming more bolder with your color choices. I hope you're on the process of another breakthrough with your next piece.