08-22-2014, 11:58 PM
Cool stuff man, nice to see you're working your ass off! :)
I really like the CHOW ideation, it's a really fresh twist from the initial draft. The idea of english gentlemen-psychos getting together to cut each other is really cool, kinda fight club gore version hehe.
The B/W portrait is vey nice, I recognized the actress right away ( I don't remember her name though) so your accuracy is really nice. I only have a couple crits about it. First, would be to use a darker background, that way the midtones you're using to define most of her will pop a lot more and the image will feel less dull in contrast. Second, maybe take a more graphic approach with the hair ( this is more personal taste I guess), I feel that using some chalk brush or something like that in a loose yet precise way would give the hair a more dynamic feel. And this could extent to using a similar brush in the "turning" areas of the form, to give hints of texture, that would introduce a more porous type of deal and add interest. I still like it, and I'm awfully aware of how hard is to pull off what you already did, but it never hurts to give some feedback :)
On the color practices I have two suggestions:
a) Still Life, a boring, annoying exercise, that is awfully taxing on patience but teaches a lot about color and specially methodology regarding it.
b) If you feel intimidated by color, as I do, try to ignore the levels of saturation on the colors you see for a while, pick just 2 or 3 hues, and work in the spectrum of saturation that's closer to grey, as if you were working on B/W, it will feel like you're basically doing just that, and even if you don't delve too deep into hues and tones, it teaches you how important desaturated color is in the picture, after that it's just a matter of an overlay layer to bost saturation in very specific areas.
Hope it helps man, keep up the cool work! ;)
I really like the CHOW ideation, it's a really fresh twist from the initial draft. The idea of english gentlemen-psychos getting together to cut each other is really cool, kinda fight club gore version hehe.
The B/W portrait is vey nice, I recognized the actress right away ( I don't remember her name though) so your accuracy is really nice. I only have a couple crits about it. First, would be to use a darker background, that way the midtones you're using to define most of her will pop a lot more and the image will feel less dull in contrast. Second, maybe take a more graphic approach with the hair ( this is more personal taste I guess), I feel that using some chalk brush or something like that in a loose yet precise way would give the hair a more dynamic feel. And this could extent to using a similar brush in the "turning" areas of the form, to give hints of texture, that would introduce a more porous type of deal and add interest. I still like it, and I'm awfully aware of how hard is to pull off what you already did, but it never hurts to give some feedback :)
On the color practices I have two suggestions:
a) Still Life, a boring, annoying exercise, that is awfully taxing on patience but teaches a lot about color and specially methodology regarding it.
b) If you feel intimidated by color, as I do, try to ignore the levels of saturation on the colors you see for a while, pick just 2 or 3 hues, and work in the spectrum of saturation that's closer to grey, as if you were working on B/W, it will feel like you're basically doing just that, and even if you don't delve too deep into hues and tones, it teaches you how important desaturated color is in the picture, after that it's just a matter of an overlay layer to bost saturation in very specific areas.
Hope it helps man, keep up the cool work! ;)