[Muzlack]

Ok... I dont' know what happened, but my post didn't um... post.

Basically, to make a long story short, I happened to fall upon that tutorial at this website 6 months ago, and have been practicing art since. Today I happened to fall upon the site again, and would like some crits on my work.
I'm modeling my work off of an old computer game series, King's Quest. I get better after every time, and have some questions regarding my newest work.

(2 of my pieces are based off this (not by me))

My remake (1st think I did after this tutorial):

Some time later, did another screen

Another remake of the 1st one.

I took one element out of this picture (not by me) and repainted one part in photoshop. What part?

My work in progress:


Ok couple questions:
Do you like these?
Am I getting better?
How would you suggest doing leaves? Mine look bad. (please use as much detail as possible, I'm still not an art-wiz.)
Anything Amiss?
How would you suggest adding in a background to this pic? I purposely didn't draw it, because I knew it would be hard to color, so I thought I'd draw a few generic trees, and scale 'em down, and place them in the background.
What do you think?

[IDrawGirls]

Nice colors. Critiques!? It kinda depends on what you are going for ... a computer game feel to the images?

Well the thing that bothered me most is the perspective.


It's not that bad in this picture but in others ...

there's a horizon but the elements are painted as if it was an isometric view.
You know what I mean? If you look at the buildings from that angle you can't see the horizon/sky!

The textures need work btw.

I see a lot of potential. You might want to work on the beginner's mistakes though.
If you want I can point out some of them. But you could try to figure out what drags the images down yourself.
Maybe read more tutorials. You should learn the basics before you take on subjects that complicated.
http://www.fineart.sk/anat
http://www.sumaleth.com/links
I think it's a good way to practice but maybe reading combined with simpler practice pieces is something you should do first.
And finding a tutorial for leaves then one for rocks and later one for water is not the way to go.
Learn the basics, the approach and then learn from other artist's images or reference images.

Again ... I see potential and I like the colors

[Muzlack]

I was reall;y just wanting crits on my WIP. I knew about the whole perspective mistake in my first few ones. I BELIEVE they are gone in my newest piece. The effect I'm going for is the one with the one part takien out. I took a screenshot, and I wanted to match styles, so I replaced one element of the picture with my own version of it. It's pretty close IMO. I'll take a look at those links...Anything bad about the WIP?

Oh, and that building is on top of a mountain, which is why you can see the sky.

[Muzlack]

Well, here's an update. Crits anyone?

[Xyster21]

I just love Kings Quest... . You pick up every damn thing in the game to win with a bag of infinite space. Imagine if we had to do that in real life "oh look a peice of magical paper! *sticks in pocket filled with peice of magical poo*"

Ok the perspective/where horizon is placed is messed up or odd looking when compared to everything. They look too soft... try making the images less airbrushy looking
but they look cool anyhow just because of the game
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[Muzlack]

I think I finished the pic. What do you think?

[DarkVVulf]

Significant improvement in detail has made all the difference, looks very good and reminds me of some other Sierra games in the same spirit of King's Quest. It may be able to take some more detailing yet, but it looks pretty close to finish.
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[Xyster21]

I agree.
It just needs maybe a few more details (perhaps hairs of grass here and there and bark on those 2 closest trees more clear)
keep posting
Do a remake of the witches hideout in The Perils of Rosella
That would be some fine memories heh. (Me and my bros loved this game back in the day).
Or maybe a scene of the shark chase in the ocean and the inside of the whale I'd like to see.
Keep it up.
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[Tinusch]

Oh man, I miss that game...

[Muzlack]

I've heard a bit about me making "beginner mistakes" on my newest piece. I'm not saying I'm not. Like I said, I'm a beginner at this. Can someone please point out some simple mistakes that I've made, or even better show images to demonstrate how I could improve? That'd be really helpful. I'm going to start working on my next piece soon, and I'd like some of these problems resolved before starting.

[Xyster21]

Just a quick helper... you should probably use the paintbrush more instead of the airbrush because the airbrush is nice and all but it makes you have to do blending right away instead of concentrating on all the values and colors first. Same as doing your own work... you don't want to get caught up in details right away as much as you do want to get into placement and perspectives etc. If you start doing detail before you have everything down and you need to move things about or you don't like something, it can mess you up. I notice that most of those it looks like alot of airbrush which makes everything look sorta like cotton and too soft instead of their actual materials they are (such as the roof on that castle and the dirt). Most importantly make sure everything looks right (in perspective) first after you have everything laid down. If you skip to painting before this like I said it can get ugly (or frustrating).
Bleh anyone else want to touch up on it?
Just keep on practicing and eventually everything will become 2nd nature to you (the tools).
GLUCK!
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