09-01-2013, 09:36 PM
I rendered some more, then towards the end of the night, I realized that I had a feeling about it that I couldn't shake. Something didn't sit right. I played around with the composition, moving pieces here and there, trying different crops, but nothing felt right. Then I realized it - it's shit, ha. The perspective is fundamentally flawed, and no amount of pushing and pulling is going to fix that. I also would have caught it sooner had I actually not been lazy and did a better line drawing as well as tried to bring the image up as a whole, instead of working one piece at a fucking time. You'd think I'd learn that by now... So I'm gonna call this one a dud, even though not totally a failure. I learned some tricks with color dodge and burn that I hadn't before, so I'll carry that over into the next one.