11-09-2012, 08:28 AM
You offered me some help on my work, hopefully I can offer you as insightful help as you gave me.
You mentioned that the first one feels flat and I think that is coming down to the atmospheric perspective. I see that you have added some atmospheric perspective in the piece but it seems to reality based. I think if you really push it you will get more depth. Really get value in the trees in the back down and more blue/gray. They should have much less color and much less detail. You can see individual leaves on those trees back there which is asking for too much attention. Once they are pushed further back and the chroma down you attention will come to the beasts. With that said, you are going to have to move to this next part.
I will address this one in a separate paragraphic since it applies to both. One of the biggest reasons these are probably bothering you is the anatomy and mainly in the forearm, biceps, and deltoid areas. You've got good detail going, less saturation which takes you to the beasts heads which is great, but because of the anatomy issues and detail contrasts you are drawn to the arms way too much. The hands, feet, and head are awesome but you need to bring that level of quality in the arms as well. I can understand though, anatomy in the human like arms on a monster can get tricky but I think that will make a lot of difference!
They are pretty strong but I think you can push them!
You mentioned that the first one feels flat and I think that is coming down to the atmospheric perspective. I see that you have added some atmospheric perspective in the piece but it seems to reality based. I think if you really push it you will get more depth. Really get value in the trees in the back down and more blue/gray. They should have much less color and much less detail. You can see individual leaves on those trees back there which is asking for too much attention. Once they are pushed further back and the chroma down you attention will come to the beasts. With that said, you are going to have to move to this next part.
I will address this one in a separate paragraphic since it applies to both. One of the biggest reasons these are probably bothering you is the anatomy and mainly in the forearm, biceps, and deltoid areas. You've got good detail going, less saturation which takes you to the beasts heads which is great, but because of the anatomy issues and detail contrasts you are drawn to the arms way too much. The hands, feet, and head are awesome but you need to bring that level of quality in the arms as well. I can understand though, anatomy in the human like arms on a monster can get tricky but I think that will make a lot of difference!
They are pretty strong but I think you can push them!