ABANDONED HIDEOUT

[Paul Kokshin]

JyonnyNovice Thanks! Having a photo to draw from solves the problem with finding gestures with construction lines, balls or boxes. When drawing from the mind it's much more failing and searching for the pose for me.

Caisne Nice! Looks much better here than on deviantart with its bright background. Love your latest illustrations in this universe. You mentioned that it looks a bit too flat to you on the stream, so I thought I'd share my ideas on it with a paint over, hope it's ok.

So the first problem, I think, is that the shape of the tall orange windows on the building in the middle ground look smaller than the same shape in the background, so I made the ones in the background smaller.

Second thing is the small buildings. It's a little bit too hard to see them there, so I added contrast to them with fog and separated the layers more.

Looks like you didn't show the ground intentionally, but I still think adding some ground plane is worth considering. Also thought the purple light is a little too bright (not sure what's supposed to be the main point of interest) and added more small shapes/details on the building in the background so it looks even bigger.

My manipulations changed the main subject of the picture from background to middle ground, but hope it'll help at least in some way. Had all these thoughts and couldn't keep them just to myself :P

Also noticed when you were zooming in your stream on the city just how cool it looks. With just the dude in the foreground and the city lights. Like a frame from a movie :D Love your stuff dude!