07-07-2021, 09:02 AM
darktiste: I know of mother color, but whenever I've tried to apply it, the result always looks too monochromatic to me. I tried to suggest the color of the atmosphere in other ways (mainly by making the shadows trend toward a pink-ish tone)
Nirenia: Thanks. Michael Whelan is great.
chubby_cat: Thanks very much. I hear you about the longness and weirdness in that one.
scrap: Thanks Bob, I hope you show up again one day.
bonesworth: Thanks a lot, and I hope I have given you good advice, LOL.
Shuty: Yeah, I think I ought to have made the nearer tower bigger or figured out some visual cues to indicate its distance.
Rotohail: Thanks very much, I hope you and several other people to re-appear one day.
: Thank you for the feedback. Regarding everything in the images having the same importance, I was doing that for a long time despite the advice of many patient people because I genuinely thought that if one arranged everything nicely and made everything equally sharp and detailed, the composition would just work itself out. I'm not so sure about that now, LOL.
Kassatay: Thanks. I was neglecting color variations, for sure. I'm more mindful of it now, but I still like the monochromatic look in some pictures.
Farvus: Thanks for the feedback. I never thought of the tight cropping issue.
This was the first painting where I made an effort to have distinct areas of focus (probably not successfully because looking it seems to cause me eye strain). I've also started using texture brushes, which I almost completely avoided before because I thought I could get the same effect with small round brush noodling (it can work, but it takes too much time for something that will still look worse and have less texture than a lazy pencil drawing on copy paper, and you usually have to resize the image until it looks like it's a picture for ants)
This was a sketch commission for a guy on reddit of his D&D goblin, which remains my only commission after multiple postings on several commission subreddits. I hope to improve those metrics, LOL.
Some D&D fan art. I never played it, but I did spend a lot of time admiring the old wizards.com gallery back in the day.
I did several Warcraft fan art paintings out of nostalgia, for I played WoW every day before Cataclysm came out and single-handedly cured my video game addiction. A few of these got 1-2k updoots when I posted them on the WoW subreddit, which makes those my only successful social media posts. Interestingly, they got the usual near-complete lack of response on all other platforms.
In this and several other images I got hung up on small sections and over-worked them to the point that they looked incongruous with the rest of the picture, which required even more work to correct. Total waste of time. I'm trying to pay more attention to the big picture when painting now, which seems to be a skill that needs to be built in and of itself.
Some charcoal drawings in a newsprint sketchbook, contrast and brightness adjusted. One day I'll learn to take decent photos of pages that are too big to scan.
I wanted an excuse to draw the barcode scanner that came with the Jurassic Park: Scan Command game. Not a "good" game, but a fun game. Sorry about the Bride of Chucky look.
As usual, I am open to comments on all of these if anyone notices anything bothersome.
Nirenia: Thanks. Michael Whelan is great.
chubby_cat: Thanks very much. I hear you about the longness and weirdness in that one.
scrap: Thanks Bob, I hope you show up again one day.
bonesworth: Thanks a lot, and I hope I have given you good advice, LOL.
Shuty: Yeah, I think I ought to have made the nearer tower bigger or figured out some visual cues to indicate its distance.
Rotohail: Thanks very much, I hope you and several other people to re-appear one day.
: Thank you for the feedback. Regarding everything in the images having the same importance, I was doing that for a long time despite the advice of many patient people because I genuinely thought that if one arranged everything nicely and made everything equally sharp and detailed, the composition would just work itself out. I'm not so sure about that now, LOL.
Kassatay: Thanks. I was neglecting color variations, for sure. I'm more mindful of it now, but I still like the monochromatic look in some pictures.
Farvus: Thanks for the feedback. I never thought of the tight cropping issue.
This was the first painting where I made an effort to have distinct areas of focus (probably not successfully because looking it seems to cause me eye strain). I've also started using texture brushes, which I almost completely avoided before because I thought I could get the same effect with small round brush noodling (it can work, but it takes too much time for something that will still look worse and have less texture than a lazy pencil drawing on copy paper, and you usually have to resize the image until it looks like it's a picture for ants)
This was a sketch commission for a guy on reddit of his D&D goblin, which remains my only commission after multiple postings on several commission subreddits. I hope to improve those metrics, LOL.
Some D&D fan art. I never played it, but I did spend a lot of time admiring the old wizards.com gallery back in the day.
I did several Warcraft fan art paintings out of nostalgia, for I played WoW every day before Cataclysm came out and single-handedly cured my video game addiction. A few of these got 1-2k updoots when I posted them on the WoW subreddit, which makes those my only successful social media posts. Interestingly, they got the usual near-complete lack of response on all other platforms.
In this and several other images I got hung up on small sections and over-worked them to the point that they looked incongruous with the rest of the picture, which required even more work to correct. Total waste of time. I'm trying to pay more attention to the big picture when painting now, which seems to be a skill that needs to be built in and of itself.
Some charcoal drawings in a newsprint sketchbook, contrast and brightness adjusted. One day I'll learn to take decent photos of pages that are too big to scan.
I wanted an excuse to draw the barcode scanner that came with the Jurassic Park: Scan Command game. Not a "good" game, but a fun game. Sorry about the Bride of Chucky look.
As usual, I am open to comments on all of these if anyone notices anything bothersome.