07-02-2014, 08:32 PM
Wow these studies show so much improvement. I skimmed through the first page and compared to that you have really improved with your brushwork and handling colour more accurately. It might help to try to block in colours with the biggest brush you can to avoid 'streakiness' in your surfaces - you seem to have improved at dealing with this though, so keep up the good work.
Great to see you making an effort to apply those studies too. If you have having trouble generating work from imagination, it could help to do more studies that focus on the construction of objects - drawing through the forms, building them out of primitive shapes (sphere, cube, cylinder, etc.) and the like. Once you learn the 3D shape language of things, you can reuse it or adapt it more fluently from your head.
For your demon lord picture, the design of the head area with the horns looks really cool, and I like how the horns act compositionally to draw attention in to his face like that. Well done on taking on such a challenging lighting challenge as well! Regarding the staff and altar, I have a couple of crits. The staff is lacking in a core shadow and is rather evenly lit, so it looks a bit flat - a shadow would be broken up by the detail of course, but it might be more effective to work that in first and build detail on top of it, using your light sources. Though it is open to interpretation, the perspective might be a bit off on the altar too - you might want to try experimenting with changing the angle of the nearest side so it is a bit closer to the viewer. (Since the altar is so near the viewer, it should demonstrate more perspective distortion/foreshortening than it does now.)
BTW, I really enjoyed looking at your 3D illustration project on the previous page, great designs on both the robots and their environment.
Great to see you making an effort to apply those studies too. If you have having trouble generating work from imagination, it could help to do more studies that focus on the construction of objects - drawing through the forms, building them out of primitive shapes (sphere, cube, cylinder, etc.) and the like. Once you learn the 3D shape language of things, you can reuse it or adapt it more fluently from your head.
For your demon lord picture, the design of the head area with the horns looks really cool, and I like how the horns act compositionally to draw attention in to his face like that. Well done on taking on such a challenging lighting challenge as well! Regarding the staff and altar, I have a couple of crits. The staff is lacking in a core shadow and is rather evenly lit, so it looks a bit flat - a shadow would be broken up by the detail of course, but it might be more effective to work that in first and build detail on top of it, using your light sources. Though it is open to interpretation, the perspective might be a bit off on the altar too - you might want to try experimenting with changing the angle of the nearest side so it is a bit closer to the viewer. (Since the altar is so near the viewer, it should demonstrate more perspective distortion/foreshortening than it does now.)
BTW, I really enjoyed looking at your 3D illustration project on the previous page, great designs on both the robots and their environment.