Dragon Hunter

[Amit Dutta]

This is it for today... been drawing 16 hours straight... Can't go on anymore... If you guys like it tomorrow I will render the crap out of it...

Hey man there are a few things I've noticed with your stuff and workflow that I think I've seen enough of you doing now to make comment on. Eduardo was right on the money. Anatomy study. If you don't get it right it doesn't matter how good anything else in the image is like. The rest of it could be a Mullins or a Jaime Jones, but if the anatomy is off it will look wrong. I'm not saying this image is completely off, besides his arm and his neck (basically everything visible!) and I don't think you should start over and I don't think you need more reference. I actually think you're jumping ahead of yourself. I think what you need to do is anatomy studies that aren't illustrations. This will fix the issues you seem to have with musculature. You also tend to portray extreme body types for the males. Not every one needs to be a bodybuilder. I know this can be a style thing, but if you keep drawing it that's all you'll know.

Comp. wise I think you've addressed the issues of before, but in terms of workflow I find it surprising that you build your images in this piecemeal way. Do you do any thumbnails at all? From experience and from every single artist I've read, talked to, listened to, they all work out their entire piece's composition, gesture, tonal arrangement etc first, before getting even close to rendering.

Lastly, you said you'd change stuff now before "rendering the crap out of it" From what I can see this is already pretty highly rendered. You have clean edges, maybe just some material and detail left, but basically I think you are spending too much time getting to a high level of detail, when you are almost there already and what you need to do is put the detail where it needs to go.
Sorry not meaning to be mean or blunt, but I think you need to look at your workflow and approach things a little differently perhaps. hope that helps!