05-14-2015, 12:21 PM
Really sick stuff, Rene!!
Just looking at the stuff you posted on this page and some of your pieces in your portfolio, I think the next step for you to bring it up is to add some crisp lines in your work. You have cool lighting and nice form rendering, but your lights seems to bleed over a lot in odd areas and you could define forms and your focal points more by cutting hard edges instead for transitioning every edge.
![[Image: Eb1n0U4l.jpg]](http://i.imgur.com/Eb1n0U4l.jpg)
Ignore the total lack of the texture brushes you like to use, but because you have good soft lighting, really controlling how you use it and cutting areas to define them will step your work up by a lot. You could really crisp up your cast shadows, especially near the source and there forms butt up against each other to give your images a lot of definition.
Another thing I noticed in your work is almost an excessive amount of detail. A lot of this is because you use texture brushes, but because you can add good detail the next thing is to really control where you put it to draw focus. If you simplify some of your value structures where it isn't super important, it will help bring focus wherever you want it. On some forms, like the concrete pillars in your last piece the detail is almost too contrasty, because it is a blocky form the "faces" of the column should hover around one single tone to feel like a flat surface, but you go from a good mid-dark to almost black in a lot of the diffuse lit areas.
Keep up the hard work!
Just looking at the stuff you posted on this page and some of your pieces in your portfolio, I think the next step for you to bring it up is to add some crisp lines in your work. You have cool lighting and nice form rendering, but your lights seems to bleed over a lot in odd areas and you could define forms and your focal points more by cutting hard edges instead for transitioning every edge.
Ignore the total lack of the texture brushes you like to use, but because you have good soft lighting, really controlling how you use it and cutting areas to define them will step your work up by a lot. You could really crisp up your cast shadows, especially near the source and there forms butt up against each other to give your images a lot of definition.
Another thing I noticed in your work is almost an excessive amount of detail. A lot of this is because you use texture brushes, but because you can add good detail the next thing is to really control where you put it to draw focus. If you simplify some of your value structures where it isn't super important, it will help bring focus wherever you want it. On some forms, like the concrete pillars in your last piece the detail is almost too contrasty, because it is a blocky form the "faces" of the column should hover around one single tone to feel like a flat surface, but you go from a good mid-dark to almost black in a lot of the diffuse lit areas.
Keep up the hard work!