Mascarpone":1icnkdmw said:
U have a problem with over exaggerating your foreshortening in spots.. and I don't like how you frame the very paint-like images with solid mechanical vector like shapes, it clashes.
that said, these are actualy pretty good, i'de recommend though with things like that phoenix picture that you not use brushes (as i suspect you might have) for things like her wings. It really separates them from her body and that's the last thing you want to do. Having all those separate bits done in different styles from the others break sup the overall flow and cohesiveness of the pieces. I like the 3 at the top of the 1st post best, i think they feel very oil-paintey. The ones where it's more blended and digital really lack a certain luster that u get with those three. I'de stick with that kind of look and, again, lose the vector art. I see potential here.
edit: also ur streight line art is very nice in it's own regard u might consider just simple color fills with basic shadows for those.
I am slightly confused, a previous comment was that I wasn't doing foreshortening at all, are you saying it is too much? I REALLY want to understand because I'm hoping to get the hang of it. Would you happen to know of any good reference books or even a site that'd explain it more?
Brushes? Isn't everything in digital programs called brushes? Do you mean I used a specific brush? This is how I did it.
-used the "Artist Oil Brush" on hot oranges, yellows, and neonish red on top of each other to make the basic interior and exterior shape of the wings
-dupilcated that wing twice.
-took the "Hurricane Distortion Brush" to the outside wing edge of the first layer, then applied a "Ruby Screen" to that layer
-Second layer I use "Drag Brush" to extend the tips slightly more and the "Hurricane Distortion Brush" at half the setting size and went along the interior and exterior edges.
-Third layer Same as First layer with a larger "HDB" and set the opacity lower and applied...I don't remember what kind of screen.
-Back to Second layer and got the "Dodge Airbrush" and went over it on mostly the yellow hued parts...Then took a different kind of Distortion Brush and pulled slightly over the same parts..Is that what you meants by using a brush?
-I think I shall keep the frames, because it's what inspired the accompaning pictures in the first place. I saw some stained glass either by or inspired by Frank Llyod Wright (although his stuff is mostly squarish and triangular) and old advertisments from the 1920's and 1930's, so since it was they that led to me wanting to do the pictures it'd feel kinda wrong ^^;
Here's a larger image of one I posted in Hey Hey You You, so you can see more details. As stated before it's not complete because my wacom tablet broke. T.T
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. Is a wacom the best tablet cuz I got one of those cheapy ones lol.