These are amazing, I love the detail you go into on your pieces. Also nice work on the drill truck, how did you achieve the realistic chipped away rock effect?
Eliminated two, and now I'm nailing down these three for final presentation. This post really isn't even needed as I replaced the previous image...well, need to get attention somehow.
For the characters, they look pretty nice but it looks like you're almost trying to hide their hands when they don't need to.
The red girl, the hand holding the tray, the pinky looks like it's as big as the thumb making the hand look symmetrical. How is the hand placed against the hip supposed to hold on? To me it seem the fingers would show up. She could maybe have them like a fist but don't know if that would be a comfortable way to do it. Additionally I her eye is a bit too big, even for this style.
On the blue girl, the arm holding the book doesn't even have signs of a hand. It looks like the arm is wrapping around like a tentacle.
The blonde girl. The hand holding the napkin looks smaller than the hand holding the tray, and the fingers disappears suddenly without any folds in the napkin to indicate them forming into a fist which would be a rather tense pose when the rest of the character feels smooth and relaxed.
So my point is, put more work into the hands. They do as much for a characters personality as the face almost. Nail those two aspects down and the viewer will be more forgiving on the rest of the body.
"On the blue girl, the arm holding the book doesn't even have signs of a hand. It looks like the arm is wrapping around like a tentacle.
The blonde girl. The hand holding the napkin looks smaller than the hand holding the tray, and the fingers disappears suddenly without any folds in the napkin to indicate them forming into a fist which would be a rather tense pose when the rest of the character feels smooth and relaxed.
So my point is, put more work into the hands. They do as much for a characters personality as the face almost. Nail those two aspects down and the viewer will be more forgiving on the rest of the body."
Normal reply isn't working, wtf?
Anyway; Yeah, it does looks like a tentacle. I'll keep note of it when I get on to the details. I'm nailing down my colors and values at the moment.
Still trying to figure out honestly if I want the girl in the sequin dress to be AA or Caucasian. As for her though; I will fix that hand too once I figure out what to do with it. I don't think I will even have her holding the towel when it's done, but I hate just leaving a hand floating in space. I'll have to confront that issue and figure it out.
Red girl: I disagree about the eye, but I will break up the hand more.
Man I dig all those hard-surface stuffs you put out. Would be cool to see a full scene with that kind of design.
Keep practicing them faces. Don't think using the super contrast colorful lighting help though. It looks to me as if you going straight from main shape of the head to smaller shapes like lips, nose and eyes without working in how they're implemented to the face, the surrounding structure.
Hope that makes sense. Seems like you're tackling something you're not comfortable with which is great. Keep drawing them peoples!
Your hard surface prop and environment concepts are really great! All you works gives me the feeling of a great back story to it. Keep up the awesome work!
It's a motor grader, aimbiz. I told you in the description, silly! :P
Heh, yeah I looked it up. Should have specified that it was the front that made me confused. Like does those arms just bang onto the ground?
Interesting to see fantasy characters from you. Spontaneously I think you could benefit of rendering them more loosely, to better push the forms. Depends on what style you're going for.
Hey really great work, love the environments. I did notices that off and on you kept very strongly to a mid key. Do you intentionally suppress the tonal range or is that a habit?
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keep it up !
Thanks! You got it!
Updating my sketchblog for the moment.
http://elijahmdesign.blogspot.com/
Seriously though, can't wait to see what else you pump out.
I found pictures of oil shale, broken concrete, and various types of clay earth and painted them together.
You can if you would like to! Just credit and link to my portfolio.
*IMAGE REPLACED WOOPS
Eliminated two, and now I'm nailing down these three for final presentation. This post really isn't even needed as I replaced the previous image...well, need to get attention somehow.
Enjoy!
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For the characters, they look pretty nice but it looks like you're almost trying to hide their hands when they don't need to.
The red girl, the hand holding the tray, the pinky looks like it's as big as the thumb making the hand look symmetrical. How is the hand placed against the hip supposed to hold on? To me it seem the fingers would show up. She could maybe have them like a fist but don't know if that would be a comfortable way to do it. Additionally I her eye is a bit too big, even for this style.
On the blue girl, the arm holding the book doesn't even have signs of a hand. It looks like the arm is wrapping around like a tentacle.
The blonde girl. The hand holding the napkin looks smaller than the hand holding the tray, and the fingers disappears suddenly without any folds in the napkin to indicate them forming into a fist which would be a rather tense pose when the rest of the character feels smooth and relaxed.
So my point is, put more work into the hands. They do as much for a characters personality as the face almost. Nail those two aspects down and the viewer will be more forgiving on the rest of the body.
The blonde girl. The hand holding the napkin looks smaller than the hand holding the tray, and the fingers disappears suddenly without any folds in the napkin to indicate them forming into a fist which would be a rather tense pose when the rest of the character feels smooth and relaxed.
So my point is, put more work into the hands. They do as much for a characters personality as the face almost. Nail those two aspects down and the viewer will be more forgiving on the rest of the body."
Normal reply isn't working, wtf?
Anyway; Yeah, it does looks like a tentacle. I'll keep note of it when I get on to the details. I'm nailing down my colors and values at the moment.
Still trying to figure out honestly if I want the girl in the sequin dress to be AA or Caucasian. As for her though; I will fix that hand too once I figure out what to do with it. I don't think I will even have her holding the towel when it's done, but I hate just leaving a hand floating in space. I'll have to confront that issue and figure it out.
Red girl: I disagree about the eye, but I will break up the hand more.
Thanks AimBiz.
Thanks for the help, guys!
Keep practicing them faces. Don't think using the super contrast colorful lighting help though. It looks to me as if you going straight from main shape of the head to smaller shapes like lips, nose and eyes without working in how they're implemented to the face, the surrounding structure.
Hope that makes sense. Seems like you're tackling something you're not comfortable with which is great. Keep drawing them peoples!
I be paintin' like it's 1989!
Mars Class Super-Highway Motor Grader.
The latest vehicle is very nicely executed as well but I can't figure out what it actually does. :S
It's a motor grader, aimbiz. I told you in the description, silly! :P
https://www.google.com/search?q=motor+grader&aq=f&oq=motor+grader&aqs=chrome.0.57j0l3j62l2.2090j0&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
Heh, yeah I looked it up. Should have specified that it was the front that made me confused. Like does those arms just bang onto the ground?
Interesting to see fantasy characters from you. Spontaneously I think you could benefit of rendering them more loosely, to better push the forms. Depends on what style you're going for.
Already in progress
Satan in Battle Mode. WIP.
Nova
Value sketch from last night.
Yes, sometimes I tend to stay in the mids, but I'm starting to get back to pushing my value range harder.