10-22-2012, 05:45 PM
The piece is pretty nice, however you should think about few things. First is that the eye of the monster is pretty big and round. That would mean the radius it gives light to is shouldn't be this narrow. Second thing is the bounce light - you live a little bit too much dark places. Consider the fact light is absorbed completely only by a pure black and neither the monster nor the environment are pure black, this means light will bounce billon of times till it gets completely absorbed thus lightening even the places that aren't hit by the light directly. So the light from the eye hits the ground and the tree bounces back to the monster and the ceiling, then bounces back from celing and other trees and the water dispersed in the air and a gazilion other things and hits everything mentioned above then bounces back....
... and so on.
Another thing is the texture of chitin. It's highly reflective (usually), so if a place is hit by the light and bounces it directly to the viewers eyes, it will be as or almost as bright as the source.
I made a little paintover, not really good, but I'm a bit too lazy to do it properly, however I hope you'll find it helpfull. If not, please just tell me to shut up.
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Edit: Now that I look at it again I didn't really do a good job on painting the texture, might look a bit metalish. I still have a lot to learn :3
... and so on.
Another thing is the texture of chitin. It's highly reflective (usually), so if a place is hit by the light and bounces it directly to the viewers eyes, it will be as or almost as bright as the source.
I made a little paintover, not really good, but I'm a bit too lazy to do it properly, however I hope you'll find it helpfull. If not, please just tell me to shut up.
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Edit: Now that I look at it again I didn't really do a good job on painting the texture, might look a bit metalish. I still have a lot to learn :3
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