09-26-2014, 01:41 AM
Where’s all that castle coming from again? In your area?
“I don't even know what I want anymore. So I went default mode and just painted a bit.” <--
I wouldn't worry about that. I'll bet we all need to just paint a bit with no thought, no goal, from time to time. The grand canyon like piece has pretty good overlaps and sense of deep space even though it's a pincher. The faint blue in the far distance is probably key.
Looks like you're attempting to do your oil painting (I presume it's oil?) alla prima. Depending on the surface you paint on, there will be a certain amount of layers you can put on before the paint start to slid and not stick on at all, so when you put a color down, be pretty sure that's the color you want. Is there a reason you wanted the bright blue-green background with all that action? It's back-lighting the figure like a sun setting behind a dark forest whose details are faint but visible via a lamp under the woods, but at first glance you only see the dark outline. You could consider doing that for your figure, so you still see all the details in the figure, but it's all a notch darker than the background, so you have 2 planes of attention... if that makes sense.
Also, she's not casting a shadow on the ground. And it might be better to just make the resting platform uniformly flat from left to right, without a peak in the middle, despite what the reference shows.
Who's the caped character that's been parading around all your recent pieces?
I can see why your mentor pushed the blue up in spider palace... that's a big chunk of bright yellow orange dominating the entire center. It's almost impossible to look away from that area.
Sorry I completely missed the updated pastel, floating jelly fishes. To make it up, here's some feedback :P
“I don't even know what I want anymore. So I went default mode and just painted a bit.” <--
I wouldn't worry about that. I'll bet we all need to just paint a bit with no thought, no goal, from time to time. The grand canyon like piece has pretty good overlaps and sense of deep space even though it's a pincher. The faint blue in the far distance is probably key.
Looks like you're attempting to do your oil painting (I presume it's oil?) alla prima. Depending on the surface you paint on, there will be a certain amount of layers you can put on before the paint start to slid and not stick on at all, so when you put a color down, be pretty sure that's the color you want. Is there a reason you wanted the bright blue-green background with all that action? It's back-lighting the figure like a sun setting behind a dark forest whose details are faint but visible via a lamp under the woods, but at first glance you only see the dark outline. You could consider doing that for your figure, so you still see all the details in the figure, but it's all a notch darker than the background, so you have 2 planes of attention... if that makes sense.
Also, she's not casting a shadow on the ground. And it might be better to just make the resting platform uniformly flat from left to right, without a peak in the middle, despite what the reference shows.
Who's the caped character that's been parading around all your recent pieces?
I can see why your mentor pushed the blue up in spider palace... that's a big chunk of bright yellow orange dominating the entire center. It's almost impossible to look away from that area.
Sorry I completely missed the updated pastel, floating jelly fishes. To make it up, here's some feedback :P