I'm liking this new design for the antlion a lot more, although I didn't expect it to be that big. But I guess that's not really the important part. I really like the amount of detail you gave the dragonfly, but I'd say because it's so well detailed, everything else needs a little bit more. Not too much, but right now everything else looks a little bland in comparison. I pulled it into Photoshop and noticed all the colors are right around the same level of saturation, which is making the composition look flat. If you threw in some atmosphere, especially on those far mountains, the depth would read a lot better. One thing that could help also is putting some of the sky into the mountains. Those mountains in shadow are still pretty warm, and if you put some of the light from the sky onto them, it would unify the colors more. The explosion on that leg could use some love, too. One more thing to consider: the composition is kind of cut in half right now. You have the mountains receding together to a point near the middle, and each half of the picture has a bug in it. Try moving them around if you can, and see what works the best. Maybe even try adding some canvas to accomodate it all.
Kurt that is one tanky looking ant-lion ship, i love it. It looks like a hulking mass of destruction, good work. Something that might help would be tweaking the lighting a little. Each piece looks colored well, but they look placed on top of the image rather than it it. I have found that unifying light and shadows can help subjects look more apart of their environment.
I agree with Ryan! The ant lion design is great! I also like your landscape/backdrop. I also agree that you could unify the piece a lot more by using lighting to guide the viewer's interest. Adding in some atmospheric perspective as well would help the dragonfly come forward and the antlion and background recede without relying too much on blurring things out of focus. Concentrating your saturated color around the primary figure (dragonfly) might help as well. Also, I'd look at some references for explosions.
well i think your antlion is a beast! my only confusion with it is that the top of the neck seems more in focus than his head or the leg to the right of his head. just unifying the sharpness of those edges so they read clearly would be fantastic.
I'm liking this new design for the antlion a lot more, although I didn't expect it to be that big. But I guess that's not really the important part. I really like the amount of detail you gave the dragonfly, but I'd say because it's so well detailed, everything else needs a little bit more. Not too much, but right now everything else looks a little bland in comparison. I pulled it into Photoshop and noticed all the colors are right around the same level of saturation, which is making the composition look flat. If you threw in some atmosphere, especially on those far mountains, the depth would read a lot better. One thing that could help also is putting some of the sky into the mountains. Those mountains in shadow are still pretty warm, and if you put some of the light from the sky onto them, it would unify the colors more. The explosion on that leg could use some love, too. One more thing to consider: the composition is kind of cut in half right now. You have the mountains receding together to a point near the middle, and each half of the picture has a bug in it. Try moving them around if you can, and see what works the best. Maybe even try adding some canvas to accomodate it all.
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ReplyDeleteKurt that is one tanky looking ant-lion ship, i love it. It looks like a hulking mass of destruction, good work. Something that might help would be tweaking the lighting a little. Each piece looks colored well, but they look placed on top of the image rather than it it. I have found that unifying light and shadows can help subjects look more apart of their environment.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Ryan! The ant lion design is great! I also like your landscape/backdrop. I also agree that you could unify the piece a lot more by using lighting to guide the viewer's interest. Adding in some atmospheric perspective as well would help the dragonfly come forward and the antlion and background recede without relying too much on blurring things out of focus. Concentrating your saturated color around the primary figure (dragonfly) might help as well. Also, I'd look at some references for explosions.
ReplyDeletewell i think your antlion is a beast! my only confusion with it is that the top of the neck seems more in focus than his head or the leg to the right of his head. just unifying the sharpness of those edges so they read clearly would be fantastic.
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