09-30-2014, 05:36 PM
hey man, nice illustration. It turned out great I think. Also good for you to do the workshop. I think it is a great idea to invest in one-self.
One thing about your illustration would be that I am not sure what is actually happening. She is holding that rope and it is in a city but thats it mainly.
I think you could push the narrative and the dynamism a bit more. I did a quick overpaint to show what I mean.
First I tilted the composition since the verticals and horizontals made it too calm in my opinion and I flipped it because I wanted the main focal point on the right side. Then I pushed her inactive hand back into the shadow, so that there was a shadow hand / light hand and shadow foot / light foot. I don't know if that is something one should do, but it felt right for me :D
Then I added a weapon in her shadow hand to show some danger. After that I added feet since now with the tilted comp, her legs just ended in midair. Then I seperated the foreground a bit more by adding a screen layer between the foreground-pidgeon and her handbag. Lastly I added a saturated edge on some cast-shadows on her skin, added some light on her hand and the shadow on the ground by another person.
Still I am not sure what she is doing with the rope, but I think you have some purpose for that. Maybe sort that out, in order to make it easier to read.
On a technical side I think it is great work, but like I said, the narrative is a bit weak. Other than that I want to see more :)
Cheers
One thing about your illustration would be that I am not sure what is actually happening. She is holding that rope and it is in a city but thats it mainly.
I think you could push the narrative and the dynamism a bit more. I did a quick overpaint to show what I mean.
First I tilted the composition since the verticals and horizontals made it too calm in my opinion and I flipped it because I wanted the main focal point on the right side. Then I pushed her inactive hand back into the shadow, so that there was a shadow hand / light hand and shadow foot / light foot. I don't know if that is something one should do, but it felt right for me :D
Then I added a weapon in her shadow hand to show some danger. After that I added feet since now with the tilted comp, her legs just ended in midair. Then I seperated the foreground a bit more by adding a screen layer between the foreground-pidgeon and her handbag. Lastly I added a saturated edge on some cast-shadows on her skin, added some light on her hand and the shadow on the ground by another person.
Still I am not sure what she is doing with the rope, but I think you have some purpose for that. Maybe sort that out, in order to make it easier to read.
On a technical side I think it is great work, but like I said, the narrative is a bit weak. Other than that I want to see more :)
Cheers