07-31-2014, 08:13 AM
Aww yeah, loving those tombstones on both iterations of the mage picture. The foreground one is an effective framing element in the newest version though. The monsters around her are a great addition, they have a good balance between directing the gaze to her without distracting - and add a bit of narrative. Compositionally, it may help to try darkening the lower corners a bit (particularly the left), just to stop the eye wandering off the frame and push focus back in. You're definitely pushing this forward with each new version though!
Keep up practising the thumbs and these chunky shapes too! Composition is an utter beast to learn, I feel the pain of it too. But when I saw the crazy number of little sketches/thumbs great illustrators (Howard Pyle for instance) did for their pictures to try and get things to work... well I guess it is just the nature of such a flexible topic.
Really cool to see you are painting the night elf too! She's looking good so far, I really like where you seem to be going with the light scheme.
Keep up practising the thumbs and these chunky shapes too! Composition is an utter beast to learn, I feel the pain of it too. But when I saw the crazy number of little sketches/thumbs great illustrators (Howard Pyle for instance) did for their pictures to try and get things to work... well I guess it is just the nature of such a flexible topic.
Really cool to see you are painting the night elf too! She's looking good so far, I really like where you seem to be going with the light scheme.