03-24-2013, 05:55 PM
Thanks for posting up at so early a stage before you've noodled away a bit...it takes guts.
I'm pretty sure I showed you this before for one of your enviro pieces on dA:
Composition basics
While the example is character focused, the same holds true for environments, just replace the foreground, midground and background with your environment's shapes. I think you've jumped straight into old habits again. I'd say redo this, but this time paint only with 4 values as per the blog post. Put each one on a different layer. Paint with a large brush, full opacity ,no pressure sensitivity, so you get flat shapes and create an interesting composition and your depth that way.
And actually as long as we're going for it why don't we do it properly? Work at thumbnail size only (<500px per image), and do at least 6 of them. Then post those, and we can crit you on comp first of all.
We can worry about things like atmospheric perspective later.
I'm pretty sure I showed you this before for one of your enviro pieces on dA:
Composition basics
While the example is character focused, the same holds true for environments, just replace the foreground, midground and background with your environment's shapes. I think you've jumped straight into old habits again. I'd say redo this, but this time paint only with 4 values as per the blog post. Put each one on a different layer. Paint with a large brush, full opacity ,no pressure sensitivity, so you get flat shapes and create an interesting composition and your depth that way.
And actually as long as we're going for it why don't we do it properly? Work at thumbnail size only (<500px per image), and do at least 6 of them. Then post those, and we can crit you on comp first of all.
We can worry about things like atmospheric perspective later.