09-15-2018, 09:56 PM
Well the biggest issue is all of your edges are hard, you tried to add a blur effect to the left side but it still reads as a hard edge. the way the brush strokes on the right side of his head, his cranial area do not follow the form of the "skull" i assume he has. Your strokes go concave and flatten the shape of his head, so try to wrap the strokes "around" his head, think like how the skin wraps around an onion.
Id also reccomend getting a reference for the hand, and adding some gnarly details. Aliens/monsters can have some crazy features you can work in, just google "Monster hand," theres plenty of cool stuff to reference. Also the deltoid/collarbone area is whacky, maybe you can get away with it, but take that pose yourself in the mirror, youll still be able to see a little bit of collarbone, and youd have to lunge your body forward to conceal it. I made the same mistake on an old piece of mine actually;
https://www.deviantart.com/fedodika/art/...-657488222
Might redo that piece soon, i really like the pallette and coposition, its just im more aware of the anatomy problems as years go by.
Also a lot of the lines you use in the finished painting really flatten the image, specially in the nose area, and you should try to paint edges where you have those lines. Some people can balance lines in their work, but even those lines have a super attention to edges, like artgerm for example
Id also reccomend getting a reference for the hand, and adding some gnarly details. Aliens/monsters can have some crazy features you can work in, just google "Monster hand," theres plenty of cool stuff to reference. Also the deltoid/collarbone area is whacky, maybe you can get away with it, but take that pose yourself in the mirror, youll still be able to see a little bit of collarbone, and youd have to lunge your body forward to conceal it. I made the same mistake on an old piece of mine actually;
https://www.deviantart.com/fedodika/art/...-657488222
Might redo that piece soon, i really like the pallette and coposition, its just im more aware of the anatomy problems as years go by.
Also a lot of the lines you use in the finished painting really flatten the image, specially in the nose area, and you should try to paint edges where you have those lines. Some people can balance lines in their work, but even those lines have a super attention to edges, like artgerm for example
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Paintover thread, submit for crits! http://crimsondaggers.com/forum/thread-7879.html
[color=rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.882)]e owl sat on an oak. The more he saw, the less he spoke.[/color]