Wristwatch Grandfather Clock

unnamed1800

Heres progress on a peice that I'm working on for an illustration class
its a grandfather clock wrist watch
my references are in the pic
I'm looking for a critique on the overall idea and feeling of the peice
anything on how I can improve the painting
and anything else that you would feel is neccesary

Jessica Dinh

This looks really odd for a wrist watch. First of all, it seems like it would be really uncomfortable, since it is long and rectangular and the wrist is a curved form. Maybe try breaking the clock up into segments that kindof link into each other? I also think it would make more sense if it were symmetrical.

I would reupload this image if I were you, at about 1/3 of the size, cuz it took forever to load and most people would just close the page on you haha.

unnamed1800

thanks, Ill for sure re-consider the design after I finish this one up, and will absolutely post it when I nail down the design

mutatedjellyfish

Pendulum would not work in any way in this design. I know it's not supposed to be real, but think of some other way other than a pendulum to keep the time on it while keeping the grandfather clock visual language.

Even if it's just "magic does it", fine, but that pendulum sticks out as ridiculous.

Mitchell Banks

haha, nice! This is looking good. I'm going to have to agree with Jessica about the piece needing to be curved, unless it's for a large creature. Depending on what the watch is for and who is wearing it (lets say it's an Ogre that's wearing it), then it would be understandable. It's obvious that it's a fantasy piece, it's large and bulky, makes sense that it would fit on a big bulky brute of an Ogre. I can't wait to see when you paint in the smaller details! Keep it up.

Seirei

Mitchell Banks wrote: »

...on a big bulky brute of an Ogre.

Now after reading that I demand a huge Ogre with a tophat and a monocole to wear this watch on his wrist!

Another idea that might be interesting would be to have the thing actually standing upright vertical on the wrist. This would counteract the usability but I'm most certain I've seen that already working in a cartoon or a movie. But then again it might be a too blatant rip-off, so improving on the idea would be the better choice.
Whatever you do, keep at it I believe this one will be funny to watch!

unnamed1800

Thanks so much for the input guys(I use that term loosely), its really a lot of help!

unnamed1800

I did a little more color work, not quite done yet. I have to redo the reflection on the clock face, and draw out some of the shadows a little bit more

Seirei

So basicly you've just shaded it a little bit without any further effort to apply given critics like the weird pendulum?