05-14-2013, 10:26 PM
Thanks very much! I'm feeling a lot more comfortable with these, and I've got a good method sorted out (using the 3/4 value technique and nice foggy brush to soften up some shapes) so I'm feeling a bit more satisfied with what I'm doing now, so thanks a lot for the help with that :)
Finished Gurneys book a little while back, so hopefully my colour paintings will show some improvement as well.
Really loving the thumbs you did, I see completely what you mean about the rule of thirds (i kinda guestimated it here, will draw a grid and assign a hierarchy in future). I really like how you brought focus with the light on the little house in 3 on the bottom left, will keep that technique in mind in future. I think I may develop some of these, I really dont like 2 as it is very confused so I think I'll learn from and ditch that one.
I'll try to get some more interesting stuff in between layers and frame the picture better, as I know it needs some grounding which I'm not providing.
Thanks a lot for taking a look, will see what I can do about the sky (its because I'm using a gradient as the background as I dont like block colours, will do it from dark grey to light grey in future, thanks) and keep improving one or two and render them properly in colour I think :)
Cheers! :)