[Rocco - X]

Any C&C is greatly appreciated.

[stacy]

I'm not sure what or how you want to use color here.
The figure is pretty much grey-scale without much contrast. As a stylized piece in that black and white frame, it "works" as is.

If I had to colorize though, I'd set the black frame to a dark grey, sepia tone the figure, add grey-green art nouveau-ish vines at the left and bottom of the doorway (his left) with a single muted orange bloom just above his left hand. Then I'd go back and add highlights that indicate he's strongly backlit, like across the tops of his arms and helmet and left calf.

[Rocco - X]

thanks for the tips. just to let everyone know. this is a pencile drawing that i scaned in mutplyed over some grey. when it comes to color, im quite lost. Ill try a few things.

[Rocco - X]

this is what im trying to go for. but i know im missing somthing.

[aphelionart]

the shadows/walls could be cooler, maybe even blue.. to contrast the harsh orange (and follow warm/cool light/shadow ratio). or also try varying saturation a bit to give some depth?

-matt

[Rocco - X]

I think thats a little better. thanks for the tip. ill need to refine this though. can anyone recomend a good book on color theory?

[Rocco - X]

Just made some changes. i think it looks alot better

[stacy]

VERY nice Rocco.

[bagelguillotine]

The main thing to me is that it's hard to tell what kind of emotion is being expressed by the pose. I think the problem comes from the legs. While he's thrusting his right hip forward, it's suggested that the right leg is receding because it does not come down in the picture past the left. And as his left hip dips back, his left leg is planted in front of him. This is confusing because it doesn't really look like he's standing--more like floating and dragging his feet. Also, the left leg doesn't have to be turned so much to the side.

Another thing to work on is feet. For me, feet are unquestionably the hardest part of figure drawing. You have to be careful not to make them look too small, or they look like they can't support the figure. You also have to pay attention to their shape so that their planes correspond with the planes of the floor. It looks to me like you meant for his right foot's toes to be the only things touching the ground. In that case, the front joint of the foot armor should be flat on the ground and the lines taking it back should match up with the lines taking the floor back toward the vanishing point.

I hope that doesn't sound like too much beating up. You really have some nice stuff going on in the top section with the warm to cool changes on the shoulders and the well detailed armor.
Good luck!

[Rocco - X]

Thank you for the cits.Yeh what i was intending for the legs is him trying to make a step with the left most leg bent and up while putting support on the right most leg. I guess if that isnt apparent right away then i didnt do it right. Ah, in order to do it right id have to redraw most of the image. forshortening is a bitch. thanks for all great crits. ill post un update a lil later.

[Rocco - X]

did some more work on the colors and lighting.

also here is the picture without the drawing on top of it.



coo coo

[Freddio]

ok nice, now leave the drawing out and start working on the underpainting,
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[Rocco - X]

good idea. i should have thought of that

[Rocco - X]

Update. now im going strickly with the painting. hope this turns out alright.

[ivan]

its looking good!

[Rocco - X]

update



start the long hard redering process. still not sure if im doing it right though. i see craigs scetches and they look awesome and you can see the brush strokes. with min i cant help but clean them up caus i dont know what else to do. argh. well hopefully it willturn out alright.

[ddawghurl]

looking great. all i could say is that you should define some of the lines more. great stuff though.
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[Rocco - X]

did stuff, blah blah

[weaselball2]

lookin pretty good! I would continue darkening like you did on his left arm, the lines in other places just don't look quite dark enough(becuase shadow on wall so dark?).

I'de put some snazzy design on his giant sword too

[weaselball2]

this might look like an overpaint but I actually just put on cheapo levels and saturation filters to get those lines darker

[Symgoth]

I liked the original best, it looks like a "knight." This one now is starting to look more like a demon out of hell. Just my opinion though. Go with what you feel. That's the joy of art

[weaselball2]

lol, I kinda agree that he's starting to look evil. The helmet lost detail in the transition, and now it looks kinda like he has horns and evil eyes.

[Rocco - X]

toight. i wansnt going for evil. ill try to make it more like the original. thx. any more sugestions?

[Liquilan]

Nahh man it's looking good- I agree about the color though- it totally changes the feel of the image, but you're headed down the right path man...
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[Warhead82]

his left hand is to big, and his right hand is to small.
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[pdubz]

I like the version before weaselball2's level/sat change. I'd say put a lot more blue on the shadowed side of the knight -- it's looking to orange to me.

[Jonathan Wahlstedt]

[ground]

with the angle of the shield and the way his hand seems to be against the wall, it seems like he would fall over...

[Rocco - X]

thanks for all the comments. since there is so many problems with my pic, i really couldnt address all the problems without re-painting it, which is fine because i learned alot from this picture. So im gonna call it close. Thanks to everyone who commented, you really helped me out alot.

[Greensun]

some anatomy issues. also, the perspective in his body is a bit off.. Jonathan's version fixes up alot of it tho.
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