My first Digital Background Painting, need suggestion/help

[paperclip]

For something like this, try increasing the contrast and making the color most saturated at the area between light and dark. So then you have a fair amount of darkness, some quite saturated bits (these shouldn't be everywhere) and some bright areas. No more than 10 percent should be highlights. Have fun!

I like the composition by the way, would look really cool if it was tilted slightly though. Keep it up!

[umbrellasky]

I agree with what Paperclip said :D also if you make the trees and other things closer to the viewer really dark and then get lighter as you mover further away, this will make the image look more dramatic :)

[GimGim]

thanks for the comments and suggestions, i have fixed and made a few change, please have a look and hope i will get some feed back :)

latest fixed
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v705/gimz/5-1.jpg

[Primo_itch]

mushrooms... nhumm... nhac!

I like your composition to. >) But, as far as the lightning goes, maybe you should keep the mushrooms lighter, they seen to be one of the marks on the image. Also, try to add more detail to the trees... You know they are trees by seeing then, but maybe if you use colour changes to diferenciate then (as enialadam already said) it will give more perspective and definition to your image...

[GimGim]

thanks all for the comments and suggestion, i tried to add more details, please take a look :)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v705/gimz/6.jpg

[MattVogt]

Kent,

I noticed at your first post that you can hardly see your line art. Adjust the levels of your scan so instead of having lines,white and midtones you'll have just lines and white. To do this hit up ctrl + L then move the midtone triangle all the way to the left. (I attached mine) then after throw that up as the top layer and set it to multiply.

Great so far, use broad strokes at the start. Personally I work at a smaller resolution at the start then bump it up once I block in all my colours - only for the speed since using huge brushes are slow in ps (like 300+ sizes) This way you can fill the canvas fast and easy... Use broad strokes at the start ; )

cheers,
Matt

[GimGim]

Wow, thanks for the tips :)

[GimGim]

I'm confused... I don't know if i'm going to a wrong direction...
please look at the progress of the painting

1. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v705/gimz/8cfc62bf.jpg
2. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v705/gimz/e47a40e6.jpg
3. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v705/gimz/0777f2a1.jpg
4. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v705/gimz/ca021cb5.jpg
5. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v705/gimz/73de03e3.jpg
6. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v705/gimz/83a06674.jpg

please give me some comment and correct me if i did anything wrong in the progress

thanks :)

[Primo_itch]

I found this one my favorite :
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v705/gimz/ca021cb5.jpg

Are you still going to work on this ?

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