CGMythology's Sketchbook

[jeremygordonart]

Hey, nice sketchbook! Really enjoy seeing your progress! Your narratives in your images are great and I love the imagination; the drawing is also good! I think one thing that I would say to focus on is getting some more color into your shadows to bring it to life some more, as well as applying some more atmospheric perspective to push the depth.

I'm rusty so take my paintover with a grain of salt, but I wanted to just do it to give an idea of kind of what I'm talking about. Just in general, I think in the pirate image, in a sunny day like that, there will be hardly any black shadows when the light is bouncing all over the place and the blue sky would be filling in a lot in the shadows as well. So I tried punching some color into some of those shadow areas, as well as used a blue soft light glaze to push that ship back a bit (it's values were pretty dark and contrasty making it look very close to the pirate and seem smaller than you may want it to. I also removed the seagull from the ship since it made it feel even smaller (sense of scale).

That's just my initial impression of the image, but it's overall a great painting! I hope my two cents proved helpful at all. Keep up the great work!