09-27-2013, 01:11 AM
The world building course does look interesting, I'm looking forward to see what you are going to produce :)
Love that portrait from imagination, her smile is so genuine, seems to extend right into her eyes... only the irises are a little too sharp I think.
It's nice to see you play with more interesting lighting situations in your environments - why not push it even more? Same goes for the values - you're really getting better with that foreground/middleground/background layering, but I think you could push the value differences a bit more. And always remember to switch to black/white and check the values.
Regarding the color changes: It might help to simplify the colors first (like thumbnailing), decide which colors you see/want to use with a hard brush, and only then start painting the actual image. I feel like using soft or textury brushes makes everything muddy quite fast.
Do you use layer modes for introducing color variation? I like the overlay/soft light category for playing with color, but it's also easy to completely go overboard and mess up everything...
The VL stuff is awesome. That red plane-study looks very professional. ^^ Reminds me that I still need to do mine!
Love that portrait from imagination, her smile is so genuine, seems to extend right into her eyes... only the irises are a little too sharp I think.
It's nice to see you play with more interesting lighting situations in your environments - why not push it even more? Same goes for the values - you're really getting better with that foreground/middleground/background layering, but I think you could push the value differences a bit more. And always remember to switch to black/white and check the values.
Regarding the color changes: It might help to simplify the colors first (like thumbnailing), decide which colors you see/want to use with a hard brush, and only then start painting the actual image. I feel like using soft or textury brushes makes everything muddy quite fast.
Do you use layer modes for introducing color variation? I like the overlay/soft light category for playing with color, but it's also easy to completely go overboard and mess up everything...
The VL stuff is awesome. That red plane-study looks very professional. ^^ Reminds me that I still need to do mine!