04-04-2017, 01:40 PM
@zdele, those are some nice iterations man. We can talk about it on Wednesday though ;)
@seki, great work man. I like the new pov, even though it is fairly flat on, but it works, and the comp has a stronger focal point and sense of story now.
I feel you could do a bit of refining of values overall. I checked the image out on two monitors to be sure; on my very well calibrated one, and a rubbish laptop one. It looked much better on the laptop. On my monitor, the darks were crushed a bit much in the foreground, which made that large overhanging tree a bit too contrasted between lit and shadow sides. It wasn't clear to me at what depth in the scene it is meant to be but judging by the highlights from the torch I'm guessing it's meant to be in the foreground. I suspect you wanted to show it going into the midground, but because you didn't handle the value/contrast transition well it makes the form of the tree in perspective much flatter. Nailing the right value contrast and drawing the forms in perspective are the absolute fundamentals to get your depth working properly. If you haven't nailed them in values, they probably won't work in colour. I also didn't like the way the tree trunk shape language is constructed and makes it seem unnatural. Again, ref is the way to go to sort that out.
Watch your highlights from the torch and how they affect the local colour of objects. Things react differently based on their local colour and material properties. You can rarely simply take the colour of the light and simply apply it directly onto everything equally without the colour being modified in some way. Ref or studies will sort that out. Also watch where you leave hard edged brush strokes. Looks a bit too simplified and breaks the form as well. Especially noticeable again, in that tree. If you want to take this further, I highly suggest you redo that tree! :)
I'll harp on about using figures in environments again. Does the job, but a more interesting less neutral pose would be even better.
There is decent depth to the scene but it could be better and there are inconsistencies, so my main suggestion for you is to work on your value and contrast to place things clearly at their appropriate depth and be especially careful about how you handle value and contrast to show when forms are receeding continually into the space as opposed to only existing at specific depths. This will give your scene way more of a sense of depth. Colours are pretty good, could probably add more local colour vibrance and variety across the board to make them richer. It's ok for a quick concept, but I feel you could do quite a bit more to polish and render up the scene overall so I hope you make some adjustments and do some extra work on it.
@seki, great work man. I like the new pov, even though it is fairly flat on, but it works, and the comp has a stronger focal point and sense of story now.
I feel you could do a bit of refining of values overall. I checked the image out on two monitors to be sure; on my very well calibrated one, and a rubbish laptop one. It looked much better on the laptop. On my monitor, the darks were crushed a bit much in the foreground, which made that large overhanging tree a bit too contrasted between lit and shadow sides. It wasn't clear to me at what depth in the scene it is meant to be but judging by the highlights from the torch I'm guessing it's meant to be in the foreground. I suspect you wanted to show it going into the midground, but because you didn't handle the value/contrast transition well it makes the form of the tree in perspective much flatter. Nailing the right value contrast and drawing the forms in perspective are the absolute fundamentals to get your depth working properly. If you haven't nailed them in values, they probably won't work in colour. I also didn't like the way the tree trunk shape language is constructed and makes it seem unnatural. Again, ref is the way to go to sort that out.
Watch your highlights from the torch and how they affect the local colour of objects. Things react differently based on their local colour and material properties. You can rarely simply take the colour of the light and simply apply it directly onto everything equally without the colour being modified in some way. Ref or studies will sort that out. Also watch where you leave hard edged brush strokes. Looks a bit too simplified and breaks the form as well. Especially noticeable again, in that tree. If you want to take this further, I highly suggest you redo that tree! :)
I'll harp on about using figures in environments again. Does the job, but a more interesting less neutral pose would be even better.
There is decent depth to the scene but it could be better and there are inconsistencies, so my main suggestion for you is to work on your value and contrast to place things clearly at their appropriate depth and be especially careful about how you handle value and contrast to show when forms are receeding continually into the space as opposed to only existing at specific depths. This will give your scene way more of a sense of depth. Colours are pretty good, could probably add more local colour vibrance and variety across the board to make them richer. It's ok for a quick concept, but I feel you could do quite a bit more to polish and render up the scene overall so I hope you make some adjustments and do some extra work on it.