[Dr_Graevling]

Hi everyone. I've been lurking around on this forum for a while to see all the amazing art here. Finally got off my lazy butt and registered an account. Thought I'd try posting something.



It would be greatly appreciated if I could get some pointers on where to go with this.
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[faB]

Nice and colourful. The shading is consistent throughout. You got a little story going on there. Ha ha just noticed the octopus is drinking the barrel's contents through a straw.

Watch for the guys's boots, they seem thin compared to his calves, and his feet would be pretty much right under the water surface there, so the reflection you have make the lower legs seem a bit too long (minor tidpick, you should probably leave the reflections as is)

The rock on the right seem a bit dull compared to the rest. It would be somewhat colored by reflected light from the water (cool) and the sandy beach (warm) (you could probably liven it up with just a few splotches of colour to suggest reflected light, keep saturation low on the rest)

I would paint the guy's pants a differnet color to separate from the water.

Other than that I like it, dont overwork it and mess it up..

ps: adda buckle or something to the guy's pants so he doesnt look like wearing underwear
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[Dr_Graevling]

Thanks alot for the comments and pointers, faB.

I've made a few changes to it, and hopefully it looks a bit better.
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[faB]

Hey I liked your pic and I made a paintover.. my first paint over evarrrrr.

Just consider it my 'take' on it Im in no way saying this is how you should do it, because there's a zillion ways to do it..



I used Levels to lighten up the barrel, changed the barrel's metal ring highlight to a warmer less dull color, added in some random water reflection light (bluey /cyan color), added some yellowish reflected light from sandy beach, tried to add some contrast and form to the characters (i.e. not smooth all over, some sharper transitions)., I didnt know where to put the boat, it was too crowded in the center of the pic but you saw that as well, I just removed it short of repositioning characters, I was too lazy to redraw the rocks with more defined planes, I just colored it, but it looks more saturated than should be because it's dark
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[Basement bound]

hey I thought I would mention a few extra things. when working on these illos. think about composition, what just happened, imagine what all the different charaters are doing and what they are thing. This will help to communcate ideas of what is going on to the viewer. I refer to the first image here. Depth is very important and here almost all the characters are lined up on the red line. Very flat compostion character wise. they are rendered with depth but not spacial relationship with thier environment. You have created some depth with the beach the end of the rock and the horizon. you need to think that way about the rest of the picture.


here in the second one I have created some depth. The barrel has washed up. The girl is a little further down the beach. The guy is in even deeper water. and the parret is still flying about. I have also added in some brush to create depth from the viewer to the beach.

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