Hand painted WIP character critique

polygonfocus

Hi Guys and Gurus, I've got a WIP hand painted character in the graphical style of the great League of LEGENDS. I still feel there is something missing or maybe ways to make it look much better. I am still open to colour changes if anyone thinks the colours clash etc or some extra details required etc, please can u guys give me some comments?

lotet

Looks pretty sweet! good job overall, small things that coud make it better, did a quick paintover with the mouse.

but basically what I did was added a gradient from his feet to the head
did some quick color corrections/color balance in photoshop
made it black and white and made sure the different shapes and materials are seperated(you could probably do a lot better job here then I did). you want to make sure everything reads even in B/W range.
make sure your details pop and isnt all just a dull 50% gray.

polygonfocus

Thanks for your reply , I guess a top lighting gradient will help the eye focus on the top half of the character, i'll try and add that, any more critique from people in this forum pls?

atomander

Hey, nice start. I found this article from Valve really helpful, especially if you are working on something in this style/from this camera angle.

http://media.steampowered.com/apps/dota2/workshop/Dota2CharacterArtGuide.pdf