Keepin it all in one thread (myk's art dump)

Mykonos

Just gonna stick to one thread and post my finished work for crits and what not. Thanks in advance for all input.


Experimental piece, influenced by Feerik's 'kill'


Another experimental one, this time testing out painter's oils and pallete knives

Brolo

Too many brushes, man. Much like photoshop filters, there's a time and a place for custom brushes, but you rarely if ever leave them so they're so easily spotted. Android loves putting in tons of that stuff, and he can collage it to make it look awesome, but he's a very rare talent. I think some of these guys do a good job of keep it subtle.

I like that you're putting some expression on her face, but her eye sockets are uneven, making her left eye appear a lot flatter than the right, and her nose is too small.

Mykonos

Thanks for the crit. Ya half the reason why I moved away from photoshop was to get away from those brushes. Then Android shows me what I can do with the chalk pattern and glowstick, and I'm like F#$K!

Godfather

Oi, you might want to stay away from those brushes altogether. Nothing's wrong with them, but they're drawing my eyes away from what's supposed to be the center of attention. It's like the imperfections of the face are clashing with the perfect rune/symbol/whatever brush strokes.

EDIT: Oh hey brush edit. Neat.

Mykonos

bump for update

Iruka

I think you need to budget your time better. I tend to enjoy your lighting and colors but all of your pieces feel like the thumb nail of a painting. Like the first one, It'd be so much more finished if you just took the time to render the hair and clean up the edges on his jacket and hand (his finger looks kinda broken, btw). And the same with the second one, if her teeth and eye lashes and such were cleaned up, if her hair actually looked like hair and not photoshop brush strokes, that'd really be top notch.

Its like you have Lalilulelo syndrome.

misosoup

if you slowed down a lot more, tried actually painting some of those jazzamatazzy effects rather than just slapping custom brushes all over the place some of these could be lovely. I enjoy the expressionate nature of your paintings and you don't have to lose this if you slow down any, I mean look at who you site as your own influences.

I would like to see you do a piece from conception to completion without using a single brush other than the normal hard round brush, literaly don't touch any tool other than that and the eraser.

go go go

Brolo

misosoup wrote: »

if you slowed down a lot more, tried actually painting some of those jazzamatazzy effects rather than just slapping custom brushes all over the place some of these could be lovely. I enjoy the expressionate nature of your paintings and you don't have to lose this if you slow down any, I mean look at who you site as your own influences.

I would like to see you do a piece from conception to completion without using a single brush other than the normal hard round brush, literaly don't touch any tool other than that and the eraser.

go go go

Or use traditional media!

misosoup

yeah, preferably that.

get a nice homely HB

Mustang

To be honest, I really like the custom brushes on the first one. It gets it's message across perfectly. If it were more finished or tidied up with hard edged rounds I think it would lessen the image.

Mykonos

update

DeeLock

The form is getting lost with all those spontaneous brushstrokes...They need to help define the shapes of the figure rather than distract and confuse.

I think you've done a better job of this in the portrait of the guy with a gun. Your strokes are less random and more structured.

You're doin your own thing and that's cool, many amazing artists are completely self taught. I do think that you should cut down on the custom brushes. They're cool when you wanna do an abstract painting, but when you're doing figures, all those different brushes just turn into a big mess.

desperaterobots

I think you need to get a better control of colour also. All your stuff tends to wind up very grey and .. mushy? Like there's always a fog obscuring the detail. Desaturated is good, but there's a lack of contrast in your work. The 'experimental' piece works because there's a higher contrast and over all it feels much sharper than your usual murky soup.

I'm pretty crap at the human figure but to me it sometimes look like you're hiding structural flaws with crazy crap.

XAL

desperaterobots wrote: »

I think you need to get a better control of colour also. All your stuff tends to wind up very grey and .. mushy? Like there's always a fog obscuring the detail. Desaturated is good, but there's a lack of contrast in your work. The 'experimental' piece works because there's a higher contrast and over all it feels much sharper than your usual murky soup.

To put it short, the colors are very Gears of War.
I'd like to see you use other colors with very minimal brown and black/greys.
Draw some kittens and unicorns eating candy lol jk But seriously I'd like to see what that looks like with your style.

I agree with Dee, your brushes tend to be very random at times and obscure your forms.

The way you do hair is super cool, me like.

desperaterobots

Well it's also a problem with ill defined light sources... Light just seems to pour out of random areas and illuminate this fog so everything gets splashed with this indifferent overcast pall. I'd like to see what you can do with a well defined single-light source (the lamp on the table, the moon, the glow from the street, whatever) and with some very very tame brushes. No more fog!

Mykonos

yeah I definitely feel you guys on the foggy/soupiness. Right on I'm working adamantly on preventing that from happening so I'll post something asap to see if I can follow through. Thanks for the input guys