06-01-2013, 04:07 PM
Hey man, thank you so much for the paintover! This is just what I needed to get headed in the right direction again.
I think the colors and lack of soft edges was what made it seem childish to me, since the feeling is mostly gone in your paintover - the changes you made push it much much closer to the kind of epic feeling I wanted it to have.
Will check the perspective, thanks for helping with the pose too - getting figures in perspective within the picture is always a problem for me. The values are looking so much better too, awesome.
Thanks again, I really appreciate the help!
Also yeah some of the pictures from my portfolio are watercolor, touched up and collaged digitally though (: I saw April Liu/looshu do something similar with the watercolor gestures and wanted to give it a try.
Edit - Here's where I'm at now, I'm not sure how to draw more attention to the cliff houses but I think the sky/values are looking way better.
I think the colors and lack of soft edges was what made it seem childish to me, since the feeling is mostly gone in your paintover - the changes you made push it much much closer to the kind of epic feeling I wanted it to have.
Will check the perspective, thanks for helping with the pose too - getting figures in perspective within the picture is always a problem for me. The values are looking so much better too, awesome.
Thanks again, I really appreciate the help!
Also yeah some of the pictures from my portfolio are watercolor, touched up and collaged digitally though (: I saw April Liu/looshu do something similar with the watercolor gestures and wanted to give it a try.
Edit - Here's where I'm at now, I'm not sure how to draw more attention to the cliff houses but I think the sky/values are looking way better.