Robo-Arm

[Basho]

Can anyone please give me some input? I would like to get some feedback before I finalize the image.

[lokki]

The background doesn't work for me... Maybe something a little more concrete, like a subway setting, or something you might expect to see in Blade Runner? IMHO, the bg you have here detracts from the good-looking illustrations in the characters. Putting them someplace where you know the fight was epic would do quite a bit to sell the story.

Having said that, I think the colors and shapes you used can work well... just build them into a wall or hallway with some depth. Or perhaps a shop window with stunned citizens staring in?? :)

[Basho]

Thanks for the advice! Can anyone else offer any words of wisdom or critique?

[BMunchausen]

I'm not so great at backgrounds myself, but I can say as a viewer of effective images, that this background to me, is too abstract and yet not abstract enough to work.

The smoke (is that smoke?) crossing the image from top to bottom is sort of spatially confusing when coupled with the shapes in the back. The way the yellow rectangular thing overlaps the smoke semi-transparently...I can't understand where that yellow shape lies in space. All that stuff in the back doesn't read like a wall, or anything else really, and the colors do little for the figures.

The figures are nice - I think though, you need to draw in at least a rudimentary background. The image feels really claustrophobic, the way the characters are all on the same plane - so close to the viewer too. I'm really wanting to feel they're in a bigger space. Even some simple planes indicating an alleyway or something behind them would open it up. Sorry I can't offer more - as I say, I'm not a great composer myself.

[Basho]

No, That is a great critique! Thank you, both, for helping me out with this. I will revamp this asap!

[lokki]

any updates?

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