very nice finish, I do think it suffers a little from too many ideas and colours a bit more focus would have been cool in my opinion - so that the character stands out and the landscape/background has an easily identifiable culture/habitat
Nice. Making the lava from the volcano has helped to balance the piece more.
My critiques:
1: the 'wind' looking ... wrong. The cape is blowing to the left (her right), her skirt is blowing to behind her, the sash in front is blowing to the right, the grass and leaves don't seem to be affected.
2: The 'energy' should be brighter and make more glow to the surrounding objects. Maybe a contrast issue?
I know you are probably sick of the image by now, but there are still things that can be done.
At this point I would suggest to
A: flip the image to see if there are any compositional issues. Can always help when getting sick of an image.
B squint your eyes at the piece, to help see if the work is too flat and the tonalities/contrast could be improved.
at look at it this way, I haven't even BEGUN on my final piece! So you have plenty of time compared to me to improve the image.
Zatoichi - Thank you for great advice and wonderful comments.
regarding 1. I agree with your observation, the sash infront would be a reaction from the forward kicking motion of the left leg inlcuding some body language to suggest movements in the image. that is how I imagined it to react with exagerrations with the movement though.
2. yeah, will adjust that part, once I have enough timee juggling through my busy sched. good thing Im done with the other requirements and could get back to it.
thanks once more, I appreciate your time dropping by a lot!
Awesome, I'd be quite surprised if this didn't end up in the top 20.
But I think a little more colour contrast between the character and the clouds behind might help. The greencap has greenish clouds behind it and the gold crown has yellowish clouds behind it, perhaps if the red from the left extended over there it could help seperate the character from the background.
Very nice as usual, but I think the greenish shadow on the text makes it a bit hard to look at. Rather have a glowy effect in the background or something. Perhaps make it darker as well.
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Ged - thanks again! appreciate it!
THANK YOU ALL for the wonderful support and great feedbacks I have recieved. It was a very big help!
Cheers!
My critiques:
1: the 'wind' looking ... wrong. The cape is blowing to the left (her right), her skirt is blowing to behind her, the sash in front is blowing to the right, the grass and leaves don't seem to be affected.
2: The 'energy' should be brighter and make more glow to the surrounding objects. Maybe a contrast issue?
I know you are probably sick of the image by now, but there are still things that can be done.
At this point I would suggest to
A: flip the image to see if there are any compositional issues. Can always help when getting sick of an image.
B squint your eyes at the piece, to help see if the work is too flat and the tonalities/contrast could be improved.
at look at it this way, I haven't even BEGUN on my final piece! So you have plenty of time compared to me to improve the image.
regarding 1. I agree with your observation, the sash infront would be a reaction from the forward kicking motion of the left leg inlcuding some body language to suggest movements in the image. that is how I imagined it to react with exagerrations with the movement though.
2. yeah, will adjust that part, once I have enough timee juggling through my busy sched. good thing Im done with the other requirements and could get back to it.
thanks once more, I appreciate your time dropping by a lot!
cheers!
-Woog
But I think a little more colour contrast between the character and the clouds behind might help. The greencap has greenish clouds behind it and the gold crown has yellowish clouds behind it, perhaps if the red from the left extended over there it could help seperate the character from the background.
Two thumbs up regardless.
cheers!
cheers!
here is the quick fix
I think I'm done and will be submitting tomorrow unless I see or you guys see any errors I have made.
Thank you all for the help and support!