04-08-2015, 11:03 AM
hmm well, i'm gonna quit workin on this image because there are just too many things i shoulda fixed early on..
Maybe it'll help someone if i list all the discrepancies i have with it!
1. 75% of the image is dark values and there are just too many warm colors. The cool colors in the rocks kind
of helps, but not enough to contrast the rest of the image well.
2. i painted the hair too much, and got lost in the detail, disregarding the flowiness i had in mind earlier.
3. the face is pretty, but the way the hair attaches to the head makes the skull look squashed or flat around
the bangs. Also it would have been best to really simplify the hair since at this distance detail doesn't matter.
4. I wanted to sword to kind of be slimy like an octopus, but i wasn't sure how to go about getting that texture,Or maybe I did, but i initially made it a very rocky texture which is too similar to the background.
5.Initially i wanted a glare or something across the image from strong sunlight to avoid the sudden saturated to bright value transition'
6. I didn't design the hand right, i had it randomly pointing off screen because i thought it'd be a more
eloquent pose, but this character isn't quite eloquent enough for that.
7. While i think the arrangement of the rocks is interesting, it seems random and amateurish.
8.I wanted the sun to hit the sword with a hint of red to portray translucence, but due to me painting it
such a rough texture, it doesn't work very well.
9. the image is too much about the background, but it's tough to show a full design without a background, well
in an illustration sense.
10. While the pose is more dynamic than most my previous works, I wanted to evoke a sense of falling, and maybe have less in the background, more of a weightlessness.
11. The more i think i can paint metal, the less i can actually do it.
Oh well, my mom said she liked it lol.
Yea, that's it! next time i'll do this image where it's about half dark and half bright, maybe have the figure
falling over a daytime desert scene, which is a lot brighter. Till then i'm really gonna take what i learned
from Dan Dos Santos on One fantastic week and block out the values first. Compositions tuff.. highly recommend that talk btw, made me see alot of things differently in a very short amount of time
The sketch i put here of the skater girl is a bit more sophisticated and more in line with what i learned from the previous image; plus she's a cutie.
Maybe it'll help someone if i list all the discrepancies i have with it!
1. 75% of the image is dark values and there are just too many warm colors. The cool colors in the rocks kind
of helps, but not enough to contrast the rest of the image well.
2. i painted the hair too much, and got lost in the detail, disregarding the flowiness i had in mind earlier.
3. the face is pretty, but the way the hair attaches to the head makes the skull look squashed or flat around
the bangs. Also it would have been best to really simplify the hair since at this distance detail doesn't matter.
4. I wanted to sword to kind of be slimy like an octopus, but i wasn't sure how to go about getting that texture,Or maybe I did, but i initially made it a very rocky texture which is too similar to the background.
5.Initially i wanted a glare or something across the image from strong sunlight to avoid the sudden saturated to bright value transition'
6. I didn't design the hand right, i had it randomly pointing off screen because i thought it'd be a more
eloquent pose, but this character isn't quite eloquent enough for that.
7. While i think the arrangement of the rocks is interesting, it seems random and amateurish.
8.I wanted the sun to hit the sword with a hint of red to portray translucence, but due to me painting it
such a rough texture, it doesn't work very well.
9. the image is too much about the background, but it's tough to show a full design without a background, well
in an illustration sense.
10. While the pose is more dynamic than most my previous works, I wanted to evoke a sense of falling, and maybe have less in the background, more of a weightlessness.
11. The more i think i can paint metal, the less i can actually do it.
Oh well, my mom said she liked it lol.
Yea, that's it! next time i'll do this image where it's about half dark and half bright, maybe have the figure
falling over a daytime desert scene, which is a lot brighter. Till then i'm really gonna take what i learned
from Dan Dos Santos on One fantastic week and block out the values first. Compositions tuff.. highly recommend that talk btw, made me see alot of things differently in a very short amount of time
The sketch i put here of the skater girl is a bit more sophisticated and more in line with what i learned from the previous image; plus she's a cutie.
70+Page Koala Sketchbook: http://crimsondaggers.com/forum/thread-3465.html SB
Paintover thread, submit for crits! http://crimsondaggers.com/forum/thread-7879.html
[color=rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.882)]e owl sat on an oak. The more he saw, the less he spoke.[/color]
Paintover thread, submit for crits! http://crimsondaggers.com/forum/thread-7879.html
[color=rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.882)]e owl sat on an oak. The more he saw, the less he spoke.[/color]