Baldgate Sketchbook

[darktiste]

I want to focus your attention on a few point

The use of area of rest vs area of interest.Noisy vs simplicity

Intelligently alternating the value to move the eye around where you want the view to look at in order of importance.The stronger a value difference is between the value around it the stronger it will catch the attention of the viewer.

Since he wear reflective material he should be catching some of the surrounding color much more than on the other materiel.

I find the pose to be weak in term of exaggeration.The face is emotioness and it drag the whole thing into feeling stiff and still even if he is moving.Remember that using the face help alot to convey a story.Since human brain are naturally wire to look at face it important to spend most of the rendering phase on it in my opinion slowly decreasing the noise of rendering as we go toward the feet but not into something that resemble nothing the feet have to anchor the figure into a 3d space.

You don't have to render everything to the same level suggesting texture should be enough the brain of the viewer fill the rest .Simplification is an art in itself if you can draw not zoom in and still make your texture believeable you will save alot of time i am sure.