08-11-2014, 12:36 PM
Wohoooo! Tons of stuff man, you've been working your ass off! Nice to see. Love everything! The color thumbs are awesome, really readable and very well balanced ( I know it's master copies, but still) The inks are looking real sharp, specially the last 2 pages, I also like the litle fella with the weird mouth, pretty awesome. And the value study is really cool too. You might think eggs are simple but in fact getting eggs right is one of the most important things according to Dorian Iten, he had us draw a still life atelier style and it was a pain in the butt. If you keep at it you get awesome pressure control and improved patience hahaha. They read really well already so I'd say you're doing a fine job.
The collar bone/ shoulder / other thingies ( not good with anatomical names xD) are coming out alright, if you master that it's pretty much as smooth road for the rest since I think it's the hardest area of the body to get right. Also, I don't see much wrong with the bikes, they look quite ok, granted it's not Scott Robertson's but that dude made a bazillion of them before getting them to look super acurate, so cool stuff.
Only two crits this time:
- The speedpainting has nice colors, but it reads really badly. I can't , for the life of me, see what's going on. I see a snowy place and what seems like a car and a rocket ( only after focusing for a while) but I don't know what's happening. So maybe try to do stornger siluohettes or something so they read better. Not trying to be rude or anything, just honest advice because I have that problem too sometimes, I know what it is and then people goes like: " wtf's going on in there?" xD
- Something about the minotaur painting still bothers me. I feel it needs softer edges in some background areas ( not on the inside but on the outlines) and it's too cluttered, I feel like my eyes have nowhere to rest. Also, the leaves close to the minotaur are creating a tension, they're too prominent and there's no overlapping and thus create the "penus over vagina effect" that Kekai Kotaki talked about in the crimson conversations. Also, the position of the minotaur's foreshortening isn't following the overall perspective of the scene so it looks like he's falling off and doesn't belong in there. And you have worked so hard into detailing that I think you might have overdone it and thus the visual tension. I feel like shit for being so critical about it, and I realiose that, after all the hard work you put into rendering it it's not like you're gonna go and destroy it to adress such issues, but maybe it will help in the future. And hell, I might be wrong. Anyway man, dedicating to a piece like you have is always positive , no matter the end result, since it teaches you tons.
Overall, great update, now I'm all boosted to go draw! Oh btw! Awesome feedback you gave me man, saved my life, AGAIN hahaha, I'm gonna focus on that for a long time, it's totally worth it.
Cheers! ;D
The collar bone/ shoulder / other thingies ( not good with anatomical names xD) are coming out alright, if you master that it's pretty much as smooth road for the rest since I think it's the hardest area of the body to get right. Also, I don't see much wrong with the bikes, they look quite ok, granted it's not Scott Robertson's but that dude made a bazillion of them before getting them to look super acurate, so cool stuff.
Only two crits this time:
- The speedpainting has nice colors, but it reads really badly. I can't , for the life of me, see what's going on. I see a snowy place and what seems like a car and a rocket ( only after focusing for a while) but I don't know what's happening. So maybe try to do stornger siluohettes or something so they read better. Not trying to be rude or anything, just honest advice because I have that problem too sometimes, I know what it is and then people goes like: " wtf's going on in there?" xD
- Something about the minotaur painting still bothers me. I feel it needs softer edges in some background areas ( not on the inside but on the outlines) and it's too cluttered, I feel like my eyes have nowhere to rest. Also, the leaves close to the minotaur are creating a tension, they're too prominent and there's no overlapping and thus create the "penus over vagina effect" that Kekai Kotaki talked about in the crimson conversations. Also, the position of the minotaur's foreshortening isn't following the overall perspective of the scene so it looks like he's falling off and doesn't belong in there. And you have worked so hard into detailing that I think you might have overdone it and thus the visual tension. I feel like shit for being so critical about it, and I realiose that, after all the hard work you put into rendering it it's not like you're gonna go and destroy it to adress such issues, but maybe it will help in the future. And hell, I might be wrong. Anyway man, dedicating to a piece like you have is always positive , no matter the end result, since it teaches you tons.
Overall, great update, now I'm all boosted to go draw! Oh btw! Awesome feedback you gave me man, saved my life, AGAIN hahaha, I'm gonna focus on that for a long time, it's totally worth it.
Cheers! ;D