Spectacular 2D Entry: Adam Chase

[Canadianboy]

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Well guys i guess im gunna enter this.. Ive already missed a couple weeks.
This is actually going to be one of my first CG painting ever too. Im 17 ive been doing 3d for almost a year now and just got into painting. So im gunna be needing lots of advice.
My idea is pretty traditional. Theres a mom/dad bringing there little boy/girl to the circus first time and the kid is amazed with what he sees

[Canadianboy]

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well guys afte a couple hours of work today heres my progress..

[Korline]

whats up,
very nice idea, I mean I always thought that the circus is creepy, but ethier way that's cool
my advise is not to go to detail right away, sketch loosly, thinking about perspective and proportion first, look at the light how reflects from different objects, where is dark and where is very bright
but first sketch the same idea few times and compare,
there are some good tutorials at
www.artbyfeng.com
www.goodbrush.com
from those there is a bunch of links to different people, most of them have some kind of their explanation how they do it,
it's very touchy to me your idea so good luck with that
and PRACTICE :love:

[Canadianboy]

thanks so much for those thinks.. ill take your advice

[Korline]

check those links those are the best people I've seen, and don't stress who thinks what, just be yourself, and you'll find it, drawing is just motor skill whats in your head it is important
and always practice
cheers :twisted:

[Canadianboy]

i try to practice almost everyday now for the past month. do a couple quick paintings a day.. thanks for the support

[Maeror]

sup man, you entered!
i promise myself i will enter once my exams are over.
As for your concept the circus is a great idea. mabey you should have the scene inside of the tent, with a dramatic perspective of some aerial acrobatic, and the family way below in an excited crowd? just a thought ;)

[Kamjar]

hey dude, how are you?
Glad that someone from nsl has entered the challenge!
I wish you good luck. :bounce:

cheers Kam

[Canadianboy]

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[Canadianboy]

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did some work on the characreer and started blockin out the forground. Still have to block out the tents and other characters..

[Canadianboy]

hey dude, how are you?
Glad that someone from nsl has entered the challenge!
I wish you good luck. :bounce:

cheers Kam

howdy..
Good luck i will be following your thread

[Canadianboy]

guys can i get some C&C?

[Canadianboy]

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i did alittle more work on the characters,grass and the trail.. Im sorta lost on how im gogin to paint the Rest of the sceene and make it look decent.. any tips?

[Korline]

in my little opinion, ur comp is unbalanced, and you pulling of the picture, to the right, the landscape in front is overwelming so you loosing the character, think what is ur focus on this is it a child or a road,
my suggestion is to push horizon down, and bring child with the mother to probobly third from the right, so let say the kid takes about 2/3 from the hight, flatten the road, some deatail some nice soft light and ur home, think about perspective and composition,
drop that horizon, and yes you can cut out mummy out but the child needs to be in focus
hopefuly this help you a bit, cheers :cool:

[Canadianboy]

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thanks for the tip.. hows the view lookin now? and is ther anyreason why i cant get C&C from anyone else? lol

[Korline]

nnee they're just lazy and buzy doing their own crap,
from here on you can do a lot of things, me myself I see, nuclear explosion in the far horizon, I don't know, for me just fits right there, and to me that emptyness and the image
of the boy so peacful with the contrast of mushroom cloud would be spectacular,
dude that just my opinion, you might come up with something way more interesting, good luck, cheers :applause: :twisted:

[Analog-42]

nnee they're just lazy and buzy doing their own crap,
from here on you can do a lot of things, me myself I see, nuclear explosion in the far horizon, I don't know, for me just fits right there, and to me that emptyness and the image
of the boy so peacful with the contrast of mushroom cloud would be spectacular,
dude that just my opinion, you might come up with something way more interesting, good luck, cheers :applause: :twisted:

yeah thanks man.. i know the past couple days ie been thinking of other things i could do in the forground i though o fyour idea and a burning city too so many possibilities lol.. ill decide in the next couple days to.. i might just stay with my original idea but who knows.

[MasonRoberts]

Work on making the boys head a little thinner it's too wide right now! Also his left hand is a tad to small! Other than that I love teh colours used and the emotion conveyed so far! Good luck!:thumbsup:

[mannix8]

the scene looks nice. why not add something on the horizon where the kid is looking at.

something that captivated the kids attention. and yes do add clouds on the background.

[Siladar]

Since I said I comment on the discussionp age....here I am.

That right shoulder needs just a bit of a color difference. I've NEVER seen a shirt the blended in with the sky so well.

Next up....Uhm...well.....maybe I just don't see it. But what is "Spectacular" about this image? Is there something comming that I don't see? This is not a negative about your art or anything. It's more of a "Where the 'umph!!' that's the target of this challenge?

>>Your challenge is to conceive and create an image that could potentially become part of future history as one of those iconic spectacular images that grasps viewers by the throat; that quickens the pulse; that excites and scares at the same time.<<

I'll admit the circus might quicken the pulse. It might excite or scare a small child. But what's grabbing my by my throat? Let me give you an example of a historic spectacular disaster scene - gory - but spectacular. Think Hindenburg. Even today if you were to put that picture on a newpaper people would shudder at what happened. It grabbed you, it scared you, your pulse was certainly quickened.

Take that circus concept and say "How can I make this grab someone attention?"

Hope this helps,
Sil

P.S. I think your painting skills are very nice. I wish I could do so well :)

[Canadianboy]

thanks for the critique... yeah i scrapped th circus idea already.. im about to start on the rest of the painting right now and try to get somethign with alittle more wow to it.

thanks

[Canadianboy]

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well changed my concept quit a bit lol... heres a rough idea of what it will look like

[MasonRoberts]

Dude! Place the city to the left of the scene so:

One: The composition does not get stuffy

Two: The characters are acctually looking at the action!

You have a good painting technique, but you need to be loose and do the acctual coloured sketch before you just randomly place down objects! (Don't be deatiled yet!!) Sort out where everything is going to be goin on a thumbnail sketch before you paint!When you have done this scan the image in and place it in your document at an opacity so that you can just see the lines, then and only then start painting loosly and build yourself up to the detailing stage, BUT ONLY if your happy with the composition! I wish you luck!!:thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

[Canadianboy]

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took your advice and it looks way better.. seems more evened out

[Korline]

Dude! Place the city to the left of the scene so:

One: The composition does not get stuffy

Two: The characters are acctually looking at the action!

You have a good painting technique, but you need to be loose and do the acctual coloured sketch before you just randomly place down objects! (Don't be deatiled yet!!) Sort out where everything is going to be goin on a thumbnail sketch before you paint!When you have done this scan the image in and place it in your document at an opacity so that you can just see the lines, then and only then start painting loosly and build yourself up to the detailing stage, BUT ONLY if your happy with the composition! I wish you luck!!:thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

whats up ' I'm not even gonna comment what the other person said cause it's a WAIST of time, now loosen the whole thing, you have two months to do detail, the composition and feel for light and CORRECT perspective it's what's important NOW, your buldings don't follow the same v point, move things around try this , if it doesn't work try different angle
that's why you don't want to get to detail yet, all you need is the basic shapes, and how the light will afect this, so it's easy to move them around, if you gonna spend 3 hours on kids wrinkle on the t shirt you'll forget what you were trying to do
o and I mean the dude before the dude that I'm quoteing
look up some reference like what size the buildings would be at that distance, that's what creates the feel of depth
good luck to you
chgeers :wip: :scream:

[sepi]

That foreground looks like it is happening in country and then where is a city it doesnt match together.Maybe it should be village not city.I also thinking of the meteor in my spec picture.But any way good luck.
ps.It is very hard to draw a city

[mannix8]

now thats spectacular, good work!
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[MasonRoberts]

whats up ' I'm not even gonna comment what the other person said cause it's a WAIST of time, now loosen the whole thing, you have two months to do detail, the composition and feel for light and CORRECT perspective it's what's important NOW, your buldings don't follow the same v point, move things around try this , if it doesn't work try different angle


Every comment is accepted here buddy... You should'nt of even bothered to even type that? Just write your own comment... :shrug: It's a bit immature to say that my comment was a waist, it's just as valid as yours... :rolleyes:

Pffft...

[mannix8]

Every comment is accepted here buddy... You should'nt of even bothered to even type that? Just write your own comment... :shrug: It's a bit immature to say that my comment was a waist, it's just as valid as yours... :rolleyes:

Pffft...

hey Mason,
thanks for being patient:thumbsup: . you mentioned the word "immature" i've met a lot of people like that here:D . patience, understanding- we really need lots of that these days:D . http://img63.imageshack.us/img63/6256/homer6pb.gif

[MasonRoberts]

First case of imaturity I have seen on here, hopefully there won't be to many more! Thx for the comment! Oh and Adam, listen to both comments don't disregard one because of comments made on this thread! If you really want to make it look like a city your going to have to expand the cultural and physical features towards the characters. I have an idea for you to try... Why not have the characters IN the city, IN one of the buildings looking out the window and a metior comming towards them? I don't know, but all I can say is good luck! :thumbsup:

[Korline]

Every comment is accepted here buddy... You should'nt of even bothered to even type that? Just write your own comment... :shrug: It's a bit immature to say that my comment was a waist, it's just as valid as yours... :rolleyes:

Pffft...
maybe you should read the whole thing, on the last sentence i said that is not you
casue what you give was very good input, but before you say anything READ the whole thing the dude before has no clue, so read this again, well see how ever you want,any way your comment was right on, just please read the whole thing first, sorry if that came across wrong way
:)

[MasonRoberts]

Hmm... Your post makes no sense then? Why would you quote me if you were not Quoting me? :shrug: Meh... It's in the past lets stay on topic! :thumbsup:

[Korline]

you just dont get it do you
I quot you BECASUE YOU WHERE wright

NOW , my dumb ass comment was to the person that was trying take this little desing a part l, witch I think has a potential, and if you gonna shut somebody down like that, YOU ARE wrong
] this is about to HELP develop good designs not the same o'll s**t
this suposed to be consructive not to scare somebody specially if somebody iis trying for the first time
COMPRENDE

[MasonRoberts]

o and I mean the dude before the dude that I'm quoteing


I was only saying it did'nt make sense because you said the dude before the dude taht i was quoting and that dude was Adam... So, hence I thought you were talking me... Justn a simple misunderstanding...:) Now lets move on with this thread! :thumbsup:

[Korline]

I was only saying it did'nt make sense because you said the dude before the dude taht i was quoting and that dude was Adam... So, hence I thought you were talking me... Justn a simple misunderstanding...:) Now lets move on with this thread! :thumbsup:
sorry
you are right lets move on,
It's my falt cause I wasn't clear enough, I appologize
anyway I think that what he needs here is to, play with that idea very hmm loosley :D and like you've said not to worry about the detail for now
just work on the composition, to me I think the bulidings are to big and right there you loosing sence of distance, and in my opinion that space beetwen the character(boy)
and the city that is about to be destroyed, creates this unspeakable silence wich is spectacular to me,
if you cut this short you loosing the space beetwen, and that feel of emptyness
I don't know how better I can explain that, by pushing the city back you'll get the contrast that can make this pic very cool :thumbsup:

[Canadianboy]

common guys lol....

yeha im not quit sure on what im going to do..

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