[raiyu]

Been lurking around in the shadows of this great forum for a while. I was doing a character design CG when I saw a post by another artist here of a picture he did after his graduation. That inspired me to tack on the background and redo the lighting.



Larger (250kb - 1600 x 1024) http://www.raiyu.com/4/rai-ll-aigan3-fin-lg.jpg

Only Character Design (True colors): http://www.raiyu.com/4/rai-ll-aigan3-nobg-fin.jpg

[Crossbow]

Riayu,

The image is quite nice. I'm surprised no one else has commented yet. The movement in the clouds is very nice and is the stance of the character. The anatomy looks ok from here, but the way he's leaning is a bit odd. Area's to work on would probably involve painting some color or light into the lower region. The sky is so bright and lit, but the ground is so dark and black. Also you might want to create something to move the viewers eyes back to the figure, perhaps a highlight on the sword? The contrast between the clouds and the dark area tend to draw your eyes away from the character. Once again nice image.

Crossbow

[Striker]

I agree with crossbow, I think you need to put a little bit of color into the landscape, at least in the foreground. You've got good forms but the pure black hurts the image IMO. Nice work though, show us more.

Aaron

[raiyu]

Yeah I see what you are talking about. Im going to try and fool around with the highlights on the sword, or maybe blend somewhite in front of the characters face, although its going to be kinda hard to move the focus elsewhere with the bright light to the right.

As for the mountains, I used nature photographs for reference and I saw that during a sky like this mountains appear in silhouette, plus I was lazy but really that did play into it.