03-18-2014, 07:44 AM
Forrestimel your piece looking great, i'm only afraid of those perspective foreshortening of arm and leg. hope you can render them believable. Colors looks really nice. It could fit into the world of Hunger Games :D
vansty you have to reverse you method of work xD draw from big shapes to small ones. You have awesome details but the character is almost flat. Change your picture to grayscale to see that armor have no dimension.
Mannyhaatz like you're playing with some crazy perspective :D hope to see more!
Trevor S. Work more on colors. They doesn't look good right now and you probably see it too. Establish first of all temperature of lights and how many of them will be affecting the scene. From outside of the room you will have lot of sky light don't forget abut it. The golden armor is shining much too strong in highlight and it should grab reflection of the environment.
OK here's my final entry. I know already how many things I could draw better or different but hardest thing of all is to decide when to finish and my decision is "right now". Thanks Forrestimel for good critique. I tried both options, more head visible and no 3th hand but it only created more problems. The pot is important cuz it's the symbol of Hebe. I wanted to make spectator be curious why so decorative pot is in hand of common waitress. I could work on the picture next month but I think, I learned what I supposed to learn and it's time to move on to the next piece and stop whining over this one xD I'm happy that I did come out of safe box, tried nonstandard composition and worked with more desaturated colors (i still hate grays! i'm going back to pure pigments!xD) And (I hope) it show character with emotions and some interesting story.
The most important lesson for me - You can't go crazy with composition or value - they have to be precise and logic. But colors are a scene to express yourself. That's why they are so hard to explain, because choices are based on intimidate, personal preferences. There's is no bad-looking-color They are only wrong cool-warm relations.
vansty you have to reverse you method of work xD draw from big shapes to small ones. You have awesome details but the character is almost flat. Change your picture to grayscale to see that armor have no dimension.
Mannyhaatz like you're playing with some crazy perspective :D hope to see more!
Trevor S. Work more on colors. They doesn't look good right now and you probably see it too. Establish first of all temperature of lights and how many of them will be affecting the scene. From outside of the room you will have lot of sky light don't forget abut it. The golden armor is shining much too strong in highlight and it should grab reflection of the environment.
OK here's my final entry. I know already how many things I could draw better or different but hardest thing of all is to decide when to finish and my decision is "right now". Thanks Forrestimel for good critique. I tried both options, more head visible and no 3th hand but it only created more problems. The pot is important cuz it's the symbol of Hebe. I wanted to make spectator be curious why so decorative pot is in hand of common waitress. I could work on the picture next month but I think, I learned what I supposed to learn and it's time to move on to the next piece and stop whining over this one xD I'm happy that I did come out of safe box, tried nonstandard composition and worked with more desaturated colors (i still hate grays! i'm going back to pure pigments!xD) And (I hope) it show character with emotions and some interesting story.
The most important lesson for me - You can't go crazy with composition or value - they have to be precise and logic. But colors are a scene to express yourself. That's why they are so hard to explain, because choices are based on intimidate, personal preferences. There's is no bad-looking-color They are only wrong cool-warm relations.