Scene: the Stolen Voice

[charlie brown]

really nice. great composition
reminds of golden axe final stage :P

[BMunchausen]

It lacks focus....all the tones are too close to one another; even with the guy pointing at the throne, it's really busy and hard to tell what's going on. I'd also say it's pretty static too because it's so symmetrical overall, and is seen straight-on and more or less at eye level.

To push the idea of perspective, you need to exaggerate the relative sizes of the characters - that'll help the space read more clearly.

Make some adjustments and you're on your way....

[darkefire]

thanks! that's the kind of insight i've been looking for. you're right, it does seem strangely all-over-the-place, and at the same time...bland. i was tryinh so hard to give each character equal space/voice in the piece, that the overall composition suffered in the end. i'll run through it a few more times.

[BMunchausen]

I look forward to seeing your changes.

These types of problems are really close to me right now because I'm a character designer trying to figure out how to create convincing interiors and so I'm dealing with all kinds of the same things. Been doin' a lot of reading about composition and perspective and looking at a lot of great concept art and am seeing problems in my work, like the ones in yours.

So we're in this together, my bruthah!

[darkefire]

hah hah! glad to hear it! i would be interested in some book titles of websites that have been keeping you on your legs. im personally still in the "see what i like and imitate it" stage of my development, so a lot of my influences are strictly visual.

[georgh]

great......I learn sooo much browsing these forums................and ideas fill up my head as welll.............I was looking at this piece trying to figure out what it was that was bugging me.........and I think BMunchausen put his finger right on it...............

look forward to seeing an update

[BMunchausen]

The books I've been looking at are these...

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1929834098/qid=1074279073/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/002-2274207-5910447?v=glance&s=books

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/003055487X/qid=1074278989/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/002-2274207-5910447?v=glance&s=books

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0671530771/qid=1074278948//ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i0_xgl14/002-2274207-5910447?v=glance&s=books&n=507846

And the artists I look at are:
http://www.justinsweet.com
http://www.puddnhead.com
http://www.puddnhead.com
http://www.bromart.com
http://www.goodbrush.com

Hope this is useful.

[BMunchausen]

oops....put puddnhead twice. I meant to include
http://www.gagneint.com

[darkefire]

OMG i cant believe you cited the MARVEL Way! that. is. awesome.

thanks for your links! I've never heard of most of them (cept Brom and Mullins), but their work has been bookmarked, heh heh.

below are some of my own greatest influences which i think you will probably already know, or enjoy, or both:


http://homepage.mac.com/abworks/cglib2.html
http://www.nivbed.com/media.htm
http://www.ashleywoodartist.com/

and i rolled accidentally upon this place just now, which interestingly enough puts all but 3 of my most admired Japanese masters into one coherent nutshell. in French.

http://www.naimoka.com/index.php?rub=terada

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