I really would love constructive criticism... Really really.
[url]http://rambunction.deviantart.com/art/Last-Day-of-Summer-149152188[/url]
Unique.
[QUOTE=Parrrky;19433142]Unique.[/QUOTE]
Sarcasm?
Interesting, although it seems you aren't very patient with your work. You did nice details with the tree, but the leaves, clouds, grass and water are very simple and kind of ugly.
The leaves, or whatever, vines, don't really connect to any branches, are only 1 color, and the brush you used is clearly visible. Try different shades of green and mix around the brush size and go over it a few times with different opacities.
Your grass is mostly bad on the distant hills. It's ok under the tree, but a bit too light for the ground color.
Another thing you should work on is contrast. Use extreme dark and lights of the color you want, and keep lighting in mind. I don't see any real shading in your picture, and considering it's supposed to be a sunset scene, that's kind of important.
The grass on the mountains/hills looks really rushed, and the sun looks more like a giant orange. Should be more solid, less texture. Sky needs much more gradient, clouds need more round-ness, shading. Water reflections look rushed as well, a bit too bright.
Don't really know what to tell you in all. A good attempt. Nice colors. Just need to work on shading/lighting, details, smoothing out colors, creating textures and such. I recommend just taking more time, and maybe using reference pictures more.
^ I was just about to say something along the lines of this, but he did it for me. Thanks.
Overall, interesting idea, but could use a little more development - even if the work is meant to be abstract.
[QUOTE=Dclone2;19434124]Interesting, although it seems you aren't very patient with your work. You did nice details with the tree, but the leaves, clouds, grass and water are very simple and kind of ugly.
The leaves, or whatever, vines, don't really connect to any branches, are only 1 color, and the brush you used is clearly visible. Try different shades of green and mix around the brush size and go over it a few times with different opacities.
Your grass is mostly bad on the distant hills. It's ok under the tree, but a bit too light for the ground color.
Another thing you should work on is contrast. Use extreme dark and lights of the color you want, and keep lighting in mind. I don't see any real shading in your picture, and considering it's supposed to be a sunset scene, that's kind of important.
The grass on the mountains/hills looks really rushed, and the sun looks more like a giant orange. Should be more solid, less texture. Sky needs much more gradient, clouds need more round-ness, shading. Water reflections look rushed as well, a bit too bright.
Don't really know what to tell you in all. A good attempt. Nice colors. Just need to work on shading/lighting, details, smoothing out colors, creating textures and such. I recommend just taking more time, and maybe using reference pictures more.[/QUOTE]
Thank you so much! This is wonderful advice. This was done entirely without references, which i think was not such a great idea :P. This was my first attempt at painting water, and I wasn't really sure how to go about it. Any tips besides darker colors?
And... yeah, i did rush through it. I've noticed I have a tendency to do that, so the painting I'm working on now I'm making sure to spend a lot of time to get things right. Hopefully.
Thank you again for the advice!
It's an unique piece to say the least.
Colours are cool for the most part, but the combinaton of green and brown on the hills over the lake don't work so good.
When you're drawing grass decide wether it's grass or dirt and stick to it.
Reflections act like gradients, when you do them you have to take account the angle you're viewing from and do them accordingly. Reflections are usually more visible on their bottom side and go less visible as they go further from the object.
Sky could use some more gradients and water could look more like water. Add some ripples and such. I don't know how to draw water, I have to try it out myself first before I can give any pointers on that.
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Red about your ittle water problem.
When you don't know how to draw something, poke around in CA.org or DA, find how others solved it and then take notes in form of quick sketches.
Water reflections are basically mirrored, but with a bit of waved edges, if the water is stagnant.
Example, lake reflection [url]http://people.uleth.ca/~holzmann/photos/BC_PurcellMtns_SilentLake/SilentLake_reflection.jpg[/url]
...the effect is more amplified if the water is full of waves, and the reflection tends to get more abstract and sometimes not a shape, but more patches of color.
Example, sun hitting water [url]http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2110/1760999147_1cce20b2ff.jpg?v=0[/url]
Water should not reflect the sky. It have to be dark and reflect ONLY the sun.
And the sky should be more blue at the top and more orange at the bottom
[media]http://bhargavsk.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/sunset_wallpaper_brazil-1600x12001.jpg[/media]
And judging from the ground it seems like a VERY bright day.
First i could not find the sun but then I realised where it was. Please understand, Sky doesn't light up itself, it's the sun. If the sun is so dark like in your picture than the sky technically can't be brighter than the sun.
Oh, and the further the objects are from viewpoint, the lighter they look. That's due to the air being not 100% opaque.
Thank you all SO much. This is wonderful advice. Any tips on gradients? I don't really know how to do that.
Don't have photoshop isntalled, can't give 100% accurate instructions but:
Two ways:
Either draw it by switching brushes all the time, going lighter and lighter as you get further from the object.
Or Draw it like usual on a separate layer, take an alpha gradient or something, and pull it either ways.
You gotta fiddle around for some time.
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I just realised, you're the most nicest user on CC.
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