06-04-2017, 11:26 PM
Yo dev, fantastic work on the wolf lady thing; I saw the process on art station and seeing how you work was really interesting. I know what you mean by "copying other people's photos of sunsets is stupid" photos of those generally have a terrible value and color range lol, paintings of sunsets have all the answers already there for ya!
I wanted to give you a critique here as a paintover so I don't just come off as hot air as I tend to do with people's sketchbooks hehe. Firstly, there was some points I saw in your process that I was confused as to why you changed. At some points the colors, and values looks better or there were moments that the detail you added took away from the image.
You're doing a lot of things well, just when I look at the simplification going on, you could do it more. Less is more basically. Again, I'd reccomend doing some studies of old masters like Zorn and see how he simplifies detail in hair, trees, and the figure, all things you seem to draw a lot of.
For real though Dev, I want you to be open to another opinion while you're working on something, so if you ever need someone to email your work to while your working for a crit, don't shy away from it, you can message me anytime, I'd be happy to help you bro, cuz I want you to succeed <3
SO I basically took a big brush and just blurred the shit out of some things and tried to clump and simplify the values, so maybe the picture will speak 1000 words, or at least a few good words :)
There are a few things I'm not crazy about in the composition like how her arms are placed, maybe think about having it interact more with he wolf (for next time of course.) Like I'm not sure what that hand is supposed to be doing, like make that pose yourself, and ask yourself, "why is my hand like this?"
ask yourself, is this important?
Yes: Focus in on it, use blurs and soft edges within the rendering to heighten focus
somewhat: blur it a little, less detail
No; Blur the crap out of it.
Girl in focal: important
Trees in the distance: Not important blur the shit out of it, simplify
So yea maybe open mine and flip back and forth and see the difference it might help i hope
I wanted to give you a critique here as a paintover so I don't just come off as hot air as I tend to do with people's sketchbooks hehe. Firstly, there was some points I saw in your process that I was confused as to why you changed. At some points the colors, and values looks better or there were moments that the detail you added took away from the image.
You're doing a lot of things well, just when I look at the simplification going on, you could do it more. Less is more basically. Again, I'd reccomend doing some studies of old masters like Zorn and see how he simplifies detail in hair, trees, and the figure, all things you seem to draw a lot of.
For real though Dev, I want you to be open to another opinion while you're working on something, so if you ever need someone to email your work to while your working for a crit, don't shy away from it, you can message me anytime, I'd be happy to help you bro, cuz I want you to succeed <3
SO I basically took a big brush and just blurred the shit out of some things and tried to clump and simplify the values, so maybe the picture will speak 1000 words, or at least a few good words :)
There are a few things I'm not crazy about in the composition like how her arms are placed, maybe think about having it interact more with he wolf (for next time of course.) Like I'm not sure what that hand is supposed to be doing, like make that pose yourself, and ask yourself, "why is my hand like this?"
ask yourself, is this important?
Yes: Focus in on it, use blurs and soft edges within the rendering to heighten focus
somewhat: blur it a little, less detail
No; Blur the crap out of it.
Girl in focal: important
Trees in the distance: Not important blur the shit out of it, simplify
So yea maybe open mine and flip back and forth and see the difference it might help i hope
70+Page Koala Sketchbook: http://crimsondaggers.com/forum/thread-3465.html SB
Paintover thread, submit for crits! http://crimsondaggers.com/forum/thread-7879.html
[color=rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.882)]e owl sat on an oak. The more he saw, the less he spoke.[/color]
Paintover thread, submit for crits! http://crimsondaggers.com/forum/thread-7879.html
[color=rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.882)]e owl sat on an oak. The more he saw, the less he spoke.[/color]