11-20-2013, 06:57 AM
Hey man! Thanks for the helpful tip!
Loving the workload you're putting out it's very inspirational. Totally a warrior mindset!
You obviously don't suck at any of those things you listed, but you can always get better at them. I know the feeling though and it's the worst. There's always a million things to study :P
I guess I'll try to help you if I can!
First off, how much time did you spend on the illustration?
It might take a long while before it starts looking good. I think that there's always room to continue with a painting if you believe that it still has potential. Patience is a good friend here! If not, you should just move on. Polishing a turd gets you nowhere!
I myself like the painting and I think the girl is framed pretty well. But there are some things that distract my eye. The person standing behind her has a more saturated color compared to the girl. So my eye jumps between the two. Could also be intentional, but you might be better off restricting the most saturated colors to her. Keeping most of the things in the background desaturated.
The same goes for the gold(?) in the foreground. It's very orange and bright at the same time as the values around it shares it's range with the girl. You could try and darken the foreground to create definite stages of depth.
Her skintones is also very gray which pushes her to the side as a focal point.
Everytime I use overlay layers everything goes supergray for me :(
A nice tool is creating silhouettes of the different objects and locking the pixels. It's like an underpainting beneath the lineart!
I think you did great studies in the same post that you could apply to the piece!
I hope you find any of this useful, keep kicking butts :D
Loving the workload you're putting out it's very inspirational. Totally a warrior mindset!
You obviously don't suck at any of those things you listed, but you can always get better at them. I know the feeling though and it's the worst. There's always a million things to study :P
I guess I'll try to help you if I can!
First off, how much time did you spend on the illustration?
It might take a long while before it starts looking good. I think that there's always room to continue with a painting if you believe that it still has potential. Patience is a good friend here! If not, you should just move on. Polishing a turd gets you nowhere!
I myself like the painting and I think the girl is framed pretty well. But there are some things that distract my eye. The person standing behind her has a more saturated color compared to the girl. So my eye jumps between the two. Could also be intentional, but you might be better off restricting the most saturated colors to her. Keeping most of the things in the background desaturated.
The same goes for the gold(?) in the foreground. It's very orange and bright at the same time as the values around it shares it's range with the girl. You could try and darken the foreground to create definite stages of depth.
Her skintones is also very gray which pushes her to the side as a focal point.
Everytime I use overlay layers everything goes supergray for me :(
A nice tool is creating silhouettes of the different objects and locking the pixels. It's like an underpainting beneath the lineart!
I think you did great studies in the same post that you could apply to the piece!
I hope you find any of this useful, keep kicking butts :D