06-03-2014, 10:18 PM
Cracking sketchbook, all these studies show loads of improvement. Great rock studies too, really liking the little colour variations you are homing in on with them.
Regarding your new piece at the top, I have a few suggestions - mainly just addressing composition and lighting. Try to use values to break up the foreground/midground/background a bit more, since everything looks rather compressed in space at the moment - if you view the image in greyscale, they don't really stand out from each other. It is already on the right tracks with how you have used the pale sky to silhouette the bowman. So perhaps use atmospheric perspective to push those rocks back on the right of the picture, and a tiny bit with the ground and the dragon's tail too.
Try experimenting with designing the light/shadows on the tail and the shape of the clouds as well - they're pretty flexible elements. (Possible example: pulling the clouds into shapes that leave the highlights framing his face).
The overlaps of the arms and bow with the rest of the picture are serving it pretty well, they introduce a nice contrast of diagonals, but watch out for the tangent his ponytail is making with that rock.
Good luck with it though, I really like where you are going with his costume. The way you have framed him with the bow and have those diagonals pointing in is working well too.
Regarding your new piece at the top, I have a few suggestions - mainly just addressing composition and lighting. Try to use values to break up the foreground/midground/background a bit more, since everything looks rather compressed in space at the moment - if you view the image in greyscale, they don't really stand out from each other. It is already on the right tracks with how you have used the pale sky to silhouette the bowman. So perhaps use atmospheric perspective to push those rocks back on the right of the picture, and a tiny bit with the ground and the dragon's tail too.
Try experimenting with designing the light/shadows on the tail and the shape of the clouds as well - they're pretty flexible elements. (Possible example: pulling the clouds into shapes that leave the highlights framing his face).
The overlaps of the arms and bow with the rest of the picture are serving it pretty well, they introduce a nice contrast of diagonals, but watch out for the tangent his ponytail is making with that rock.
Good luck with it though, I really like where you are going with his costume. The way you have framed him with the bow and have those diagonals pointing in is working well too.