06-11-2014, 05:36 AM
I'm sorry of not having had the time to comment before! I really like your ballpoint sketches, especially the hands look very awesome~! You might want to try experiment with textures (and texture brushes), I see in a lot of (photoref) paintings you do, they often lack the variety of textures you might expect. They look really solid and accurate, but giving them more texure would give them a lot more life. I love the sushi painting you did for example.
At last I'd say, regarding your hungry joe picture, I am not sure but the rendering seems a bit off. You might want to push the values some more and define the shapes more? Here and there it got some hard edges where the dark and light planes touch each other without much presence of gradient. Also the absence of a clear foreground and background take away from the depth in the picture. Other than that, it looks really cool, the face is so creepy O:
That's as far as I can mention, I hope it helped you a bit. Can't wait to see a next update!
At last I'd say, regarding your hungry joe picture, I am not sure but the rendering seems a bit off. You might want to push the values some more and define the shapes more? Here and there it got some hard edges where the dark and light planes touch each other without much presence of gradient. Also the absence of a clear foreground and background take away from the depth in the picture. Other than that, it looks really cool, the face is so creepy O:
That's as far as I can mention, I hope it helped you a bit. Can't wait to see a next update!