Pious, keeping your grass the exact same color and not putting in any atmospheric haze really kills the depth in that piece. Keep at it!
I didn't finsih the grass yet, I kinda started from up to down on the page. Atmospheric haze? so take out that failed attempt of fog I did in the background?
Pious, keeping your grass the exact same color and not putting in any atmospheric haze really kills the depth in that piece. Keep at it!
I didn't finsih the grass yet, I kinda started from up to down on the page. Atmospheric haze? so take out that failed attempt of fog I did in the background?
Atmospheric haze and fog are totally different beasts. Fog is a specific event where a cloud touched the ground or local humidity temporarily reaches 100% and the area "fogs up" for a time. Atmospheric haze is the cumulative effect of our supposedly "invisible" atmosphere when looking at objects of terrain features long distances away--this occurs everywhere. The further the distance, generally objects become more desaturated due to loss of clarity.
Also, I always recommend people work an entire painting at once for the sake of coherence and unity, rather than from side to side or top to bottom.
Atmospheric haze and fog are totally different beasts. Fog is a specific event where a cloud touched the ground or local humidity temporarily reaches 100% and the area "fogs up" for a time. Atmospheric haze is the cumulative effect of our supposedly "invisible" atmosphere when looking at objects of terrain features long distances away--this occurs everywhere. The further the distance, generally objects become more desaturated due to loss of clarity.
Also, I always recommend people work an entire painting at once for the sake of coherence and unity, rather than from side to side or top to bottom.
I see now the difference from haze and fog.
Also I'll try to work an entire painting, instead piece by piece, kinda makes more sence that way.
The clouds are nice pious, the rest just seems oversaturated, flat, and seems to be in a completey different world to the sky.
But the sky is nice
Thank you, I relized I did something stupid. I went against something I learned from this book called "Drawing and Painting Fantasy Landscapes and Cityscapes" by Rob Alexander,with misc artist. He says multiple times, that the sky will establish my pallette and also the color, nature, and intensity of my lighting. And that I should also use repetition of the sky colors in the water,rocks and trees to unify my painting.
I'm just trying to apply that now....poorly...but can't say I didn't try. Thanks all, I'll keep at it.
Frank that's looking real hot there. I'd adjust the left leg so there would be a bit bigger angle between the legs. And please finish this, the palette is just so cool. n__n
I see someone else watches Metalocalypse. Dethklok rules! 8) At the moment, the biggest thing that sticks out to me in your picture is the lack of attention paid to your creature's robe. You make some effort to make its head, hands, and legs appear 3D, but don't carry that out in the robe. This makes the robe look really flat and makes it not really fit the rest of the image. Hope that helps.
I think I'm going to take what I learned from this one, scrap it, and start a new one. I just don't know how to paint that grass and clump of trees in the middle ground.
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no kidding... but i actually felt like i was falling off my chair when i looked at that :shock: i like the composition of it, but the perspective makes it feel like they live on a kinda 50 degree hill. If you can see his garden that way, then you should at least get a bit of the street outside... i know it's a design choice so you can fit all the elements in, but it feels a bit drastic to me, as i say... i actually swayed to the right when i saw it.
well... thanks, sir! I guess my job is done if you're falling out of your chair. I'll post an inked version as well as the other preliminary two thirds of the entry (it's a three-piece entry) later on today when I get home from classes.
I'm starting a secret project. The basic idea is .... eh I will type it later.
Basicly this is a concept for a young freelance photographer. The comic is to be post apocolyptic, lol.
This is extremely early concept wise and image wise.
EDIT:
Ok, so I'm working on style right now, while I build up ideas for my project. I'm calling it Project Aeon right now, and I only have a couple ideas I'm throwing around. The one I'm leaning towards is a post apocolyptic setting, a group of people living on an island send a small group of new world diplomats and cartographers to explore uncharted waters.
EDIT:
Playing with style/mood, just for fun:
Is "shakable" a word...?
EDIT2: Man it feels bad to kill the doodle thread...
Here's the inked version of what I showed you earlier (yes, I realized I have changed nothing. I will fix that, thanks for the comments), plus the other two accompanying posters.
Here's the inked version of what I showed you earlier (yes, I realized I have changed nothing. I will fix that, thanks for the comments), plus the other two accompanying posters.
Sorry about the size.
I have a few suggestions about presentation for you, Paul. I've switched out some quick leveled images in the quote.
First, few extra seconds adjusting the levels will really help your images pop. There are lots of cases where visible brush or pen strokes really add to the image on the whole, but I don't think that's what you were going for with these. With the levels bumped up so you have higher contrast, you get the strong silhouettes that it seems you were going for with the tree and industrial buildings. Also, I don't know how bright your monitor is, but the white you have isn't a true white. This is particularly apparent in the third piece, where some of the grays from pencil smudges are still visible (on the pants, garage, right side of the fence, et cetera).
Second, the quality. The jpeg artifacts are completely killing these. You're not paying anything for all of the free space Photobucket gives you, so why not use it? You can afford to set the quality a little higher so your lines aren't surrounded by mottled splotches of gray.
Frank: I kind of want to see something more complex from you. Lots of your recent images have been simple shapes making up flat-colored figures. Slow down for an image or two and make something really interesting.
a commission I'm doing for a friend of my parents. I was asked to do a portrait of this girl. Did it in pencil, but I'm not quite sure if this is the way a portrait should look..Would it be better to try it in conte or charcoal or something like that?
Anyway here's the image..
Faces from imagination are still a bit unnatural, but I feel like I'm making new connections every time I do another girl portrait.. Jawlines alone are tricky beasts to wrangle.
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Finished that last thing I posted.
Also, I am tempted to get a new account here because I'm so unused to using this old alias.
My worst enemy, saturation. I have so much trouble with that.
I didn't finsih the grass yet, I kinda started from up to down on the page. Atmospheric haze? so take out that failed attempt of fog I did in the background?
I did do a couple studies....I will do more now though
Ok, saturation, depth, and studies.... Thanks
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Atmospheric haze and fog are totally different beasts. Fog is a specific event where a cloud touched the ground or local humidity temporarily reaches 100% and the area "fogs up" for a time. Atmospheric haze is the cumulative effect of our supposedly "invisible" atmosphere when looking at objects of terrain features long distances away--this occurs everywhere. The further the distance, generally objects become more desaturated due to loss of clarity.
Also, I always recommend people work an entire painting at once for the sake of coherence and unity, rather than from side to side or top to bottom.
But the sky is nice
No then yes. I started painting it....then custom brushed it....I'll refine it....
I see now the difference from haze and fog.
Also I'll try to work an entire painting, instead piece by piece, kinda makes more sence that way.
Thank you, I relized I did something stupid. I went against something I learned from this book called "Drawing and Painting Fantasy Landscapes and Cityscapes" by Rob Alexander,with misc artist. He says multiple times, that the sky will establish my pallette and also the color, nature, and intensity of my lighting. And that I should also use repetition of the sky colors in the water,rocks and trees to unify my painting.
I'm just trying to apply that now....poorly...but can't say I didn't try. Thanks all, I'll keep at it.
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I see someone else watches Metalocalypse. Dethklok rules! 8) At the moment, the biggest thing that sticks out to me in your picture is the lack of attention paid to your creature's robe. You make some effort to make its head, hands, and legs appear 3D, but don't carry that out in the robe. This makes the robe look really flat and makes it not really fit the rest of the image. Hope that helps.
I think I'm going to take what I learned from this one, scrap it, and start a new one. I just don't know how to paint that grass and clump of trees in the middle ground.
One more question, is it less saturated now?
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Do'h I see what you mean....I alread said scrap it, the clown is down. I'll fix it, but I'm to lazy to repost it.
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the above, combined with the houses, reminds me greatly of the milkman level of psychonauts http://www.edhumphries.com/wp-content/uploads/Psychonauts_MilkmanConspiracy.jpg this can only be a good thing
They pwn mine, which usually consist of demons/woman and any combination and/or fusion of the two.
yes those are indeed awesome, I especially like the buttered toast vs. woman one. At least I think that's buttered toast?
Oh and Frank that doodle is full of awesomeness.
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I'm starting a secret project. The basic idea is .... eh I will type it later.
Basicly this is a concept for a young freelance photographer. The comic is to be post apocolyptic, lol.
This is extremely early concept wise and image wise.
EDIT:
Ok, so I'm working on style right now, while I build up ideas for my project. I'm calling it Project Aeon right now, and I only have a couple ideas I'm throwing around. The one I'm leaning towards is a post apocolyptic setting, a group of people living on an island send a small group of new world diplomats and cartographers to explore uncharted waters.
EDIT:
Playing with style/mood, just for fun:
Is "shakable" a word...?
EDIT2: Man it feels bad to kill the doodle thread...
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I think.
Sorry about the size.
THanks for the word help.
Concepts for AEON:
I have a few suggestions about presentation for you, Paul. I've switched out some quick leveled images in the quote.
First, few extra seconds adjusting the levels will really help your images pop. There are lots of cases where visible brush or pen strokes really add to the image on the whole, but I don't think that's what you were going for with these. With the levels bumped up so you have higher contrast, you get the strong silhouettes that it seems you were going for with the tree and industrial buildings. Also, I don't know how bright your monitor is, but the white you have isn't a true white. This is particularly apparent in the third piece, where some of the grays from pencil smudges are still visible (on the pants, garage, right side of the fence, et cetera).
Second, the quality. The jpeg artifacts are completely killing these. You're not paying anything for all of the free space Photobucket gives you, so why not use it? You can afford to set the quality a little higher so your lines aren't surrounded by mottled splotches of gray.
Frank: I kind of want to see something more complex from you. Lots of your recent images have been simple shapes making up flat-colored figures. Slow down for an image or two and make something really interesting.
I did a good ol fashioned face study. (Maybe I'll bludgeon the tranvestite out of my female characters if I do enough :S).
Bonus character, which I totally stole from another person and made better with expensive sunglasses.
Andrew Ley/Ultraman inspired sketch.
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Anyway here's the image..
reference here: http://www.maj.com/gallery/crasp/Artwork/val.jpg
Apologies for the quality.
Bacon, the bug robot is hot.
Random doodle. Getting used to my wacom.
hair, ears, neck and shoulders need some painting/anatomy practice...
but what the hell... better than some of the dreck I've been doodlin' at home
crits/comments appreciated. Still havin' a hard time breakin' away from my dependence on lines, and havin' a hard time getting the hang of painting
nice beastie sain