10-09-2015, 10:52 AM
So be aware that I don't do environments therefore my crit is to be taken with a healthy room of doubt:
Link to download paint over - I hope you use Photoshop - https://www.dropbox.com/s/rycajfc3pboc1b1/1.psd?dl=0
Punk: You need to study how the sapes of light area and shadow area really look like, especially how they end at their edges/borders. The 2 biggest interruptions to your images' readability are 1.) All those white gaps amongst your marker strokes as if you haven't the patience or are too lazy to sit there and fill in the area. White specks like that are killers of any images at any level, so your first priority will be sit back down and fill in all those white specks your brush missed. If your marker tip is too big for corners, well, I'm sure you can figure out a solution to a minor blip like that in no time. 2.) The edges/borders of your shape of shades is messy and sometimes don't even follow logic. Yes, you are arbituarily cutting it off and making it a hard edge when in reality it probably has a smooth transition, so what are you supposed to do? Just decide but keep the edge clean and less torn-fabric-fiber-like, especially for this kind of limited value thumbnail/study. Shape of shades need to always follow the underlaying forms. If you don't know what the forms of that object (eg. cliff) are, you need to get more reference, and draw it all out in pencil, then paint on top of that to get the shapes of shades right.
Street scene and tunnle: See the difference when all the white holes are filled up? Better to have paint spill over than white holes.
The cliff one doesn't read because all the dark medium and light shapes of shades are all over the place evenly distributed. Look at your bunker one, that one reads clearly.
Bunker on the rolling hills are basically spheres that you only see the top side of. This is an example why learning to render the basic shapes are useful. Either you draw from mental library or you take a ball and study how it's shaded with the same lighting condition (top right, slightly from behind). Or goole reference images on rolling hills or layind down boobs. Same shapes.
I didn't paint over the second one, because it's similar to the cliff one, and you can practice touching that up yourself.
Alright, cheers mate!
Link to download paint over - I hope you use Photoshop - https://www.dropbox.com/s/rycajfc3pboc1b1/1.psd?dl=0
Punk: You need to study how the sapes of light area and shadow area really look like, especially how they end at their edges/borders. The 2 biggest interruptions to your images' readability are 1.) All those white gaps amongst your marker strokes as if you haven't the patience or are too lazy to sit there and fill in the area. White specks like that are killers of any images at any level, so your first priority will be sit back down and fill in all those white specks your brush missed. If your marker tip is too big for corners, well, I'm sure you can figure out a solution to a minor blip like that in no time. 2.) The edges/borders of your shape of shades is messy and sometimes don't even follow logic. Yes, you are arbituarily cutting it off and making it a hard edge when in reality it probably has a smooth transition, so what are you supposed to do? Just decide but keep the edge clean and less torn-fabric-fiber-like, especially for this kind of limited value thumbnail/study. Shape of shades need to always follow the underlaying forms. If you don't know what the forms of that object (eg. cliff) are, you need to get more reference, and draw it all out in pencil, then paint on top of that to get the shapes of shades right.
Street scene and tunnle: See the difference when all the white holes are filled up? Better to have paint spill over than white holes.
The cliff one doesn't read because all the dark medium and light shapes of shades are all over the place evenly distributed. Look at your bunker one, that one reads clearly.
Bunker on the rolling hills are basically spheres that you only see the top side of. This is an example why learning to render the basic shapes are useful. Either you draw from mental library or you take a ball and study how it's shaded with the same lighting condition (top right, slightly from behind). Or goole reference images on rolling hills or layind down boobs. Same shapes.
I didn't paint over the second one, because it's similar to the cliff one, and you can practice touching that up yourself.
Alright, cheers mate!