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Published: 2015-10-26 14:00:43 +0000 UTC; Views: 8162; Favourites: 131; Downloads: 0
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Full view recommended. Finally got around to finishing this one, after months of motivation and inspiration loss. Glad to have something new and finished to post after such a long art hiatus. As always, comments & critiques are more than welcome and greatly appreciated.Digital Painting - 2nd February to 26th October, 2014
Originally 4096x2160 pixels 762dpi, downsized to 1920x1080 pixels 72dpi
Adobe Photoshop CS6
Wacom Intuos 4
Total Time: Approximately 30 hours
I'll get around to posting a work in progress for this in a few days.
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Comments: 17
Very nice work. I like your colours and the fact you are playing with a warm light. I don't think the values on the guy in the distance are right. He's too dark. Even at that distance the atmosphere would affect it.
Maybe you could also break up the flat line the mountains in the bg are making, it's not as interested as maybe it could be. Also the tracks in the snow look way too big from here.
I might also makes the thinks they're stangin on look more like rock formations and less like detailed mountain tops, it somehow doesn't look natural to me.
How about some vegetation? Maybe this is spring which explains the melting snow! e.deviantart.net/emoticons/b/b… " width="15" height="15" alt="
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My choice of making the guy in the distance as vivid as he is was to try and give the bird a sense of direction, where it will be flying to. I worried that if I made him any paler, the direction of flight wouldn't be particularly obvious, or what was actually going on in terms of the story in the scene and tried to make a compromise on the two by using high visibility colours. I do agree though that in terms of value, it's not 'correct' as it is, but I struggled to figure out a better way to do this with my current understanding of values.
The scene is intended to be more of a valley shot than a traditional mountain range, where they actually ARE supposed to be stood on small rock formations and surrounded by taller cliff like structures rather than large scale mountains. I thought with humans in the scene, I'd have reduced the confusion of scale of certain things, but maybe I don't have enough familiar objects in the scene to really tie down how large/small the surroundings in the image actually are.
My reason for leaving out more detailed vegetation was because in previous images it's been suggested that I add fine detail where it isn't really necessary and tried to stay clear of that in this image, but may have taken it too far in only hinting at grass in the foreground.
As for your other points, I agree looking back on them, the foot prints are a little on the large side and maybe I could have done more with the shapes in the distance to add either some interest there, or to make them look more natural.
Thank you very much for taking the time to write this critique, I really appreciate it. It's very helpful to me for future ideas and I always keep notes on the things people point out and try to think about them more in future projects.
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Thank you, I'm still trying to improve my atmosphere and depth painting, but feel like I'm starting to get closer to where I want to be with it since painting this one
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I thought this was a photo. Wow! Your work is always so beautiful!
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You're welcome
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Well worth the time and effort Paul! Glad you have another awesome painting under your belt!
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Thank you, glad to finally get it finished!
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