[RoadMaster]

Well, this is probably my best digital painting so far (and that's not saying much for my other work I guess, heh...). Anyway, it's a picture of a child from the royal family of an alien group I call "The Empire of the Upper Sun". The dino beast thing he's riding has a name, but I've misplaced the paper that I put all my character info on. The mark on the dino's leg is the seal of the empire, and I styleized the sun in the background to try and emphasize the "sun" theme... and there is of couse an obvious desert theme. (I just realized I forgot to shade the indents that the seal makes, but oh well, I'll do that later).

Some extra info about the characters. Yes, the child has a gem in his head. His outfit is composed of a single piece of a leather-like substance, wrapped around and sealed with gold button, except for the sleeves, which are crafted almost seamlessly into the main piece of cloth. I wonder how exactly he got that on in the first place. The dino creature is only used by the royal family, and are very intelligent beasts.

Any crits and comments would be vastly helpful. The main problems I personally can see with my own work is the stiffness of the child on the dino (he makes a kind of L shape when riding, doesn't seem to arch his back properly. I was having trouble figureing out how his small legs would behave when trying to ride), the shadow's back leg looks... odd, for one thing it makes it look like the leg turns into the tail area. The leather also doesn't entirely feel like leather to me, and I'm not sure if the perspective in the desert hills are right. But any crits about these or other points are of COURSE welcome, or perhaps you have a suggestion to help me fix one of those problems, heh... Anyway, thanks for taking the time to see my work.

[dizzypope]

the sun seems to move, I love it.
A lot of motion.

there's a hill that very subtely rolls in line
with the creatures head which is sort
of distracting.

I don't know if you thought about going in
with a hard edged very fine brush and
adding some scribble texture to the fine
airbrush strokes but it might give it a
nice contrast if used lightly.

I like it, theres software you can get to
help writers keep all there characters
in order, outline of storylines, dialog
creation, everything, you should search
the web and see if you can get a trial
version. I don't know any of the software
titles but search for something like
screenplay software or scriptwriting.

Did I say I liked your painting?

p.s. hey, the creatures floating. he's not
touching the ground

[ March 24, 2002: Message edited by: dizzypope ]