12-28-2023, 02:09 PM
Lunatique: Great point, great eye! I'm used to using lighting where it comes from the top right so I wasn't as conscious of the light source as I should have been, I admit. I made some adjustments to the image now, hopefully it looks more natural!
Glad you dig the studies, learned a lot from them already. I'll continue doing them, they're fun and very education for me. Excellent point regarding the artificial lighting as well. I'm trying to study lighting with one or two sources max to not overcomplicate things and to have a clear definition of the light sources, so hopefully that'll work.
I agree about studying photography, should be a great asset to have. I think I'll take some reference photos of various subjects in different lighting conditions and do some studies of those as well, should be fun!
Thanks for your feedback and suggestions, always appreciate your input!
CBinnsIllustration: Thank you! Great input as well, love what you did with the hand especially so I incorporated it to the image. Hopefully things look better now!
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I finished up the painting process on the current image, took a lot of effort and my index finger is in pain from working so long... but I'm happy with how it turned out so hopefully it was worth it. Below is the current preview followed by the steps for those interested. As always, please let me know any input as there's still time to make some improvements if needed!
Next up I did some tweaking to the stone illustration, reworked some of the lighting a bit to make it appear more natural.
And finally a study of a movie still from 'The Last Jedi' which was quite fun. Didn't want to overwork this one as I see no point, learned what I need to in regards to the light. I'll do further studies soon as well, should be fun!
Glad you dig the studies, learned a lot from them already. I'll continue doing them, they're fun and very education for me. Excellent point regarding the artificial lighting as well. I'm trying to study lighting with one or two sources max to not overcomplicate things and to have a clear definition of the light sources, so hopefully that'll work.
I agree about studying photography, should be a great asset to have. I think I'll take some reference photos of various subjects in different lighting conditions and do some studies of those as well, should be fun!
Thanks for your feedback and suggestions, always appreciate your input!
CBinnsIllustration: Thank you! Great input as well, love what you did with the hand especially so I incorporated it to the image. Hopefully things look better now!
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I finished up the painting process on the current image, took a lot of effort and my index finger is in pain from working so long... but I'm happy with how it turned out so hopefully it was worth it. Below is the current preview followed by the steps for those interested. As always, please let me know any input as there's still time to make some improvements if needed!
Next up I did some tweaking to the stone illustration, reworked some of the lighting a bit to make it appear more natural.
And finally a study of a movie still from 'The Last Jedi' which was quite fun. Didn't want to overwork this one as I see no point, learned what I need to in regards to the light. I'll do further studies soon as well, should be fun!