[JoB]

The remains of a Blood Angel Space Marine, half buried in drifting sand ...



In retrospect it feels like the right side of the helmet (on the left in the picture) is a bit off in the perspective. And I can't get the sand quite as I want.
Oh well, paint and learn ...


/JoB

[SunnyTheDevil]

I really like the idea here, half buried in the sand, crying blood. You're obviously very creative, you're only problem is the asthetics of the thing. For a serious painting like this, it feels too cartoon-ey. The warriors of warhammer should be gritty, ugly and gothic looking. Try adding low areas, pools of black, scratches, rust, and little personal insignia that space soldiers would undoubtably plaster on their equipment (Ie: Full Metal Jacket). Your sand feels blurry, try using more general shading and alot more noise filter. Looking at it, I would say that you played around with the channels to give it depth, good thinking, keep doing this. I honestly cannot understand what the hell is going on in the background, try spending more time on it next go around. The Idea of the space ships is cool, just make them look like space ships and not flying triangles. The burning triangles should either be removed completely or turned into some kind of alien city, having it on fire isn't a bad thing, but the large plumes of flame you have right now draw the veiwers eye away from the focus. You would be better off to have some morbid looking black smoke contrails rising from the debris of what was a city (99 red balloons). Also, on the point of focus, I would keep the camera in the same place it is, but bump it up about 30 degrees on the z-axis, so that it's looking down on the helmet. This way we can see less murky blue background, and more Blood Angel helmet goodness.

You're doing great, keep it ip.

[CwStone]

well, i really liked the idea here, so i just had to do a paint over (hope ur not offended). its just a speed painting, tho it did take me almost an hour to do.




IMHO, i think (if ur still gonna have the fire in the bg) darken everything else and add some nice edge lighting corresponding to the fire from the city. I think itl pull together the image a lot more.
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[Flp]

immediately reminded me of mortal kombat 3

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Philipp