03-26-2021, 11:15 AM
So the rim light looks a bit out of place in the military scene as one , where is it coming from ? And two, it's only on the characters and not the rocks on the ground near them . I think machine gun fire can cause some orangey rimlight unless that's something I'm making up due to videogames ? So if you draw some of that happening in the mid ground then you can also get some coloured lighting going for extra visual interest. If it looks better with the rim light just on those characters then fair enough
Also it seems like they're in a sandy , dusty place so you could make parts of the smog be more yellow and heavier to create a sense of depth and add colour variation. And I second what hristov said about edge control , although I'd add that if you have time you could also vary the edges within each main character too.
Last thing to add would be more colour hue variation (and possibly saturation and value variation as well )within each "element". Take the background wall in the right. Leaving out texture , it's all the same base colour. Some very subtle colour gradient manually painted in on a diagonal helps make it seem less "digital " . Same could also apply to the characters , the foreground wall, the ground , the rocks etc. I think this is less important for character art though.
I do tend to do more painterly stuff though so some of this might not be revelant for the style you're going for. It's a great piece , very dynamic with the sense that there's a lot of stuff going on around them. And congrats on the job!
Also it seems like they're in a sandy , dusty place so you could make parts of the smog be more yellow and heavier to create a sense of depth and add colour variation. And I second what hristov said about edge control , although I'd add that if you have time you could also vary the edges within each main character too.
Last thing to add would be more colour hue variation (and possibly saturation and value variation as well )within each "element". Take the background wall in the right. Leaving out texture , it's all the same base colour. Some very subtle colour gradient manually painted in on a diagonal helps make it seem less "digital " . Same could also apply to the characters , the foreground wall, the ground , the rocks etc. I think this is less important for character art though.
I do tend to do more painterly stuff though so some of this might not be revelant for the style you're going for. It's a great piece , very dynamic with the sense that there's a lot of stuff going on around them. And congrats on the job!