08-13-2014, 02:54 PM
LOVE IT!! I just LOVE IT!!!! Omg! Hahaha I laughed so hard with them goats! You don't dissapoint man! Totally loving this one, it has some serious potential, you totally lived up to my expectations! I tell you, for a few thousand golds those mounts don't get enough money out of their effort. Hahaha, so awesome. And the goat studies are also sweet man, it seems you totally figured out the line quality trick way earlier than I did, it's just great. Ahhh! I can't wait for this one to be rendered damn!!!
The gestures are, as always, pretty cool, and even though you say this set of thumbs didn't come out great you were tackling very hard comps, specially in the 3 first ones, so I'd say it's a more than decent result for such a short length of time.
Also diggin the finished paintings. You managed to integrate the axe quite ok with the rest of the picture, I think it's the values that made it so, so nice job. And yeah man, a big big part of this whole art thing is to know what to include and what to exagerate or leave out for the improvement of the picture, and you're taking the right choices. Someday soon I'll be as strong as you with fundamentals to be able to start making those choices haha.
You also managed to make the mage look cool, I really didn't like that picture so much as the others in the begining stages ( mostly personal taste more than anything else) but you managed to end up with quite a decent result so kudos. I still find something in that piece that doesn't fully convince me but I can't quite put my finger on it. The stuff I see that I could crit are:
-The glove/hood/flowe/shoulderpad ice/ background feel too uniform in hue, I understand you tried to fix this by using slight hue variation and gradients of values, but it's still a bit weak, specially because it's the main focus of the picture so it receives a lot of attention and it must be really solid. I can't think of much solutions to this issue apart from: changing the flower hue to purple or something that contrasts more + changing the hair color to warm blonde or dark brown. Also maybe a change in the raised hand, by putting some more of the local hue in the back of the hand's shadow instead of using the background to make it pop more, still it's hard because the blue light is strong and it would be dificult to find a balance that is satisfiying.
-Maybe tighten up a bit the detail ( not much though, you always want a 1,2,3 read in that) in the part of the cape that's lifted with fur, just so there's a more smooth gradation in detail from the top to the bottom of the girl, still it's a minor detail.
Anyway, as always I'm quite aware that, it's unlikely you'll change this cause the GOAT NEEDS WORK xD but these are minor tweaks and maybe you should experiment a bit with them just so the piece is stronger.
As always, loving the hard work and getting inspired by your cool work man, keep it up! ;D
The gestures are, as always, pretty cool, and even though you say this set of thumbs didn't come out great you were tackling very hard comps, specially in the 3 first ones, so I'd say it's a more than decent result for such a short length of time.
Also diggin the finished paintings. You managed to integrate the axe quite ok with the rest of the picture, I think it's the values that made it so, so nice job. And yeah man, a big big part of this whole art thing is to know what to include and what to exagerate or leave out for the improvement of the picture, and you're taking the right choices. Someday soon I'll be as strong as you with fundamentals to be able to start making those choices haha.
You also managed to make the mage look cool, I really didn't like that picture so much as the others in the begining stages ( mostly personal taste more than anything else) but you managed to end up with quite a decent result so kudos. I still find something in that piece that doesn't fully convince me but I can't quite put my finger on it. The stuff I see that I could crit are:
-The glove/hood/flowe/shoulderpad ice/ background feel too uniform in hue, I understand you tried to fix this by using slight hue variation and gradients of values, but it's still a bit weak, specially because it's the main focus of the picture so it receives a lot of attention and it must be really solid. I can't think of much solutions to this issue apart from: changing the flower hue to purple or something that contrasts more + changing the hair color to warm blonde or dark brown. Also maybe a change in the raised hand, by putting some more of the local hue in the back of the hand's shadow instead of using the background to make it pop more, still it's hard because the blue light is strong and it would be dificult to find a balance that is satisfiying.
-Maybe tighten up a bit the detail ( not much though, you always want a 1,2,3 read in that) in the part of the cape that's lifted with fur, just so there's a more smooth gradation in detail from the top to the bottom of the girl, still it's a minor detail.
Anyway, as always I'm quite aware that, it's unlikely you'll change this cause the GOAT NEEDS WORK xD but these are minor tweaks and maybe you should experiment a bit with them just so the piece is stronger.
As always, loving the hard work and getting inspired by your cool work man, keep it up! ;D