05-22-2013, 09:12 AM
(05-22-2013, 05:57 AM)ChantalFournier Wrote: You have picked a very tough lighting situation. The alien is pretty good, but the guy, not as much, I feel like you have ref for one, but not the other. I also feel like the gun should cast a shadow on the guy, his nose should definitely cast a shadow on his cheek and eye. Also, the alien has a kind of cold rim light on his head but not on it's arms, and the guy has no rim light at all. I'm not sure what the orangey brown stuff at the bottom left is. If it's fire, he would die even without an alien there. If it's smoke, should that gun really produce smoke like that?!?!? Is it just that you didn't want to draw the alien body?
It has been a very tough illustration. I did have a ref for the Alien but not the soldier, the arms and hands of the alien are incomplete but thanks for the heads up about the cool light along the head of the alien, I might not have produced similar results on the arms and hands. It may be too extreme to begin with. I am going to draw the rest of the alien but i wanted it behind the smoke, It's part of the environment not from the gun. the gun fire is just causing the smoke to illuminate which seems to be lacking in realism quite a bit. I'm not so happy with how saturated everything is, I wanted a more realistic approach and everything turned out more cartoony than desired. Thanks for the info about the shadows as well, theres a lot i still need to study so I always appreciate feedback on what would help me improve. Thanks again for your input!