11-17-2012, 11:32 AM
Thomas: thats sucks man hate when that happens hope you still get a chance to finish
Malan: nice color thumbs im looking at 6 and 4, keep it up!
JakeB: I like the direction your heading coming along nicely, if im wrong someone will correct me but imho, i think you could still push the dragon a little bit more as far as for the comp, you could really use it to help push your shapes and lead the viewers eye around your merlin character i think. but good job man really want to see it finished!
Soo heres where i am i still need to add more stuff from the sketch, and im not totally digging the tattoos I hear about that sort of thing a lot and i dont want my character to fall into cliches, i need to examine my motives for adding them in the first place my initial idea was to add more body paint in other place of the body besides just his face so that part of the design is repeated, then i started feeling like I added it because i didnt know what the hell else to put there and didnt want him to look plain so the body paint design now is a placeholder because idk if theyre staying. but ya couple problems i see now are 1) color looks super dull -which is something im working on understanding 2) lighting on the form looks forced and rigid and flat-something that pisses me off about my work soo much lol 3) the waist-piece seems a little void of clarity as its hard to tell where it starts and ends, and 4) i really like the headress and the way it flow around the head and goes down to the right leg i think it adds to the composition this way, but on the other hand its broken because it doesnt look like it connects to the other side of the headdress anywhere. so just some stuff i want to fix before moving on adding more stuff. I prob shouldve fixed some of these issues before i started rendering but i didnt see them until after but still im having fun with this character and im learning. comments and crits..go!
Malan: nice color thumbs im looking at 6 and 4, keep it up!
JakeB: I like the direction your heading coming along nicely, if im wrong someone will correct me but imho, i think you could still push the dragon a little bit more as far as for the comp, you could really use it to help push your shapes and lead the viewers eye around your merlin character i think. but good job man really want to see it finished!
Soo heres where i am i still need to add more stuff from the sketch, and im not totally digging the tattoos I hear about that sort of thing a lot and i dont want my character to fall into cliches, i need to examine my motives for adding them in the first place my initial idea was to add more body paint in other place of the body besides just his face so that part of the design is repeated, then i started feeling like I added it because i didnt know what the hell else to put there and didnt want him to look plain so the body paint design now is a placeholder because idk if theyre staying. but ya couple problems i see now are 1) color looks super dull -which is something im working on understanding 2) lighting on the form looks forced and rigid and flat-something that pisses me off about my work soo much lol 3) the waist-piece seems a little void of clarity as its hard to tell where it starts and ends, and 4) i really like the headress and the way it flow around the head and goes down to the right leg i think it adds to the composition this way, but on the other hand its broken because it doesnt look like it connects to the other side of the headdress anywhere. so just some stuff i want to fix before moving on adding more stuff. I prob shouldve fixed some of these issues before i started rendering but i didnt see them until after but still im having fun with this character and im learning. comments and crits..go!