08-05-2015, 03:04 AM
Ooooh, update, yay! If you have any interesting links I’d be happy to read them, always good to be prepared and informed.
Nice new art, cool creatures as always :) And your lines… sigh, so jelly of lines of that quality, especially digital.
Crit time: I think you’d profit of doing some color related studies - your designs are always cool, but colors sometimes look a bit dull (that sounds worse than it is - sorry!). So for example try not just going darker for shadows, but also think about how temperature changes depending on your light source, play with slightly different hues and not just brightness, put some more saturation where light meets shadow… depending on your surface (or creature’s skin) maybe there’s some subsurface scattering going on, or some bounce light affecting certain surfaces. Many ways to go about this, if you’re struggling, I suggest doing some still life studies or master studies of artwork that gets these things right and has a similar style to what you’d like your work to look like.
Keep it up! Hope life is treating you well :)
Nice new art, cool creatures as always :) And your lines… sigh, so jelly of lines of that quality, especially digital.
Crit time: I think you’d profit of doing some color related studies - your designs are always cool, but colors sometimes look a bit dull (that sounds worse than it is - sorry!). So for example try not just going darker for shadows, but also think about how temperature changes depending on your light source, play with slightly different hues and not just brightness, put some more saturation where light meets shadow… depending on your surface (or creature’s skin) maybe there’s some subsurface scattering going on, or some bounce light affecting certain surfaces. Many ways to go about this, if you’re struggling, I suggest doing some still life studies or master studies of artwork that gets these things right and has a similar style to what you’d like your work to look like.
Keep it up! Hope life is treating you well :)