08-08-2017, 01:19 AM
(08-07-2017, 03:48 AM)ubem Wrote: I'm blown away by the diversity of environments your tackling. The compositions in all of these check out nicely, great job so far. It's good you're getting exhausted, that means you're forcing your brain to adapt and improve through challenging pieces. Here are a few things I've noticed in your latest piece when compared to a similar scene painted by Craig Mullins(?) (Taken from Karakter Design Studio's Artstation):
Sorry for the bad handwriting. But other points to consider is how bright the sun is, making the second image awash in a lighter value. There's also hardly any pure black in the second painting because of the intensity of the bounce and ambient light. It might be daunting to compare personal work to the top artists, but seeing the areas that differ and working to close those gaps will get you very far. I hope these points will give you some ideas to push further, keep up the fantastic paintings!
Wow thanks for all the great feedback it's very helpful! I noticed that the contrast was way too strong in that drawing but I could't figure out how to fix it.It looked like there was a brown fog covering everything and in order to fix that I increased the contrast which fixed the problem but made another one. When it comes to bounce light I"m struggling with so many things at once that I just forget about it. For the pyramid and ground I was just lazy and wanted to get it over with and start a new painting. I'm going to try and make my values better for the next one.