Not much of a critic since I'm still learning myself...but man this looks epic!, great use of colours they blend perfectly, I could really see this on a wall .
keep up the work
I totally agree with the stone thing, but I'm not sure how to add much contrast without making the tile terrible... I did try to add more to the large central area, but the only way I could get the tile to not be horrendously obvious was to bring it back down...
Did you mean add more contrast in the middle, or the top/bottom edge, or....?
I think that an uniform contrast is necessary, cause if you localize it, as you said, you are gonna lose the tiling, just to make things a little less flat. Looking at these ref you may also need some more scratches/noise going around to remove that clean look.
I think the best advice I ever got in handpainting was "you can tell what a texture is by how is breaks"-which is crazy true. Without the breaking, many textures could be interchangeable. Even if metal doesn't technically 'break'-the illusion of it and strong reflective light on the edge gives the viewer the impression of 'metallic, shiny, hard material". Paint on!!!
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keep up the work
Did you mean add more contrast in the middle, or the top/bottom edge, or....?
I think that an uniform contrast is necessary, cause if you localize it, as you said, you are gonna lose the tiling, just to make things a little less flat. Looking at these ref you may also need some more scratches/noise going around to remove that clean look.
You did a great job on that one.