Ice's Journey

[Ice Rider]

In today's update some color studies from other artists and probably my first environment painting. I would be glad if you guys can tell me your overall thoughts about it and also what needs improvement :)

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[AlexShi]

Hi!
Overall it looks very nice so far. I like the color composition and the mood. Is it finished? It looks like it is still a work in progress, probably because of the rough edges. Also the main focus, which is the rocky entrance to a dungeon maybe?, looks a little uninteresting in it's shape. I think it needs more variety. Also the composition of the rock clusters in front of the entrance look a bit unnatural. Maybe adding a bit more perspective to them and sharpening the edges would help?

I hope this helps!

[Ice Rider]

Thank you for advices AlexShi, I was considering this piece as almost finished. I'm especially satisfied how the firt plane came out, however as you said I need to work on the further elements and give them more interesting shapes. I'll post a new version soon!

Edit: As promised here's updated one, I redesigned mountain and rocks a bit, and tried to add some more atmosphere feeling

[Ice Rider]

Some still life studies I did recently in order to better understand color and materials + one env study.

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[alexdanila]

Great thumbs and color studies! i really need to start doing stuff like this.

[alexdanila]

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[Ice Rider]

An illustration I did recently, I'm quite satisfied with the overall effect, however I would be glad if you guys can tell me what needs improvement.

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[NoodleInBox]

Oh wow the last one took be by surprise :O you really stepped up your game in this one. Cant say anyting else really. Just keep doing what you re doing cause it seems to work :D

[Danny]

Reaally like the your latest painting! In my opinion all you have to do is find some material reference perhaps and render it a bit more. A few hours I think will do it for his illustration. Also add in the occlusion shadows to make the image more 3-dimensional! Overall just try to push it as far as you can. Still as I said, I really like it!

[Ice Rider]

Thank you NoodleInBox and Danny, It's always hard to push some more when you consider your artwork as finished, but maybe after few days of rest, I'll try to add a little bit so that it could look good in portfolio :)

[Axrel]

Wow! Awesome work! Love your most recent piece! You have a very good handle on your brush strokes- it makes it very dynamic!

[Ice Rider]

Still fighting with those still life studies, this time I was painting one with natural light and then overpaint with direct light.

[Ice Rider]

Portrait with 4 different lightning setting, top left one is from reference, others from imagination with help of references

[VoodooMama]

hello!
Really like your studies, specially the still lifes, they are a great way to practice!
I really like your illustration! The color, composition and pose all work!
I agree with Danny, in my opinion, just focus on rendering and adding more detail to the focal point.

Great stuff!

[Ice Rider]

Long time no see guys! Here I come with my latest environmnent painting on theme 'desolation' :) This time grayscale only.

[alexdanila]

Really like those life value studies! It's great how you moved the light like that, i should try that when i get around to life studies

[Ice Rider]

Thank you alexdanila! I recommend to try this, it definietly helps to understand how light has effect on the objects and how materials behave :)

[alexdanila]

I plan to do a schoolism lighting fundamental class soon. right now i'm studying gesture drawing.

[Hozure]

Ayye, those lighting studies look like fun. Think you could do one with environments?

[Ice Rider]

Thanks Hozure, I'm working on something like this right now, so there will be more soon ;)