WIP-Fate And Hope / need critics

[squircle]

Its a good start, I like the sketch; this will be a nice image. A few crits/comments: firstly I think the clouds need softening slightly, perhaps just a bit of blur. Secondly, the nose and neck of the dragon could do with a bit more form; your lightsource is from the bottom right so it will be tricky lighting the scene convincingly because unless there's another lightsource the characters would be quite dark. I would have perhaps put the lightsource coming from the left. As it stands the front of the nose needs to be darker.
As for texture, perhaps the dragon's skin should be a bit more leathery? Also you could perhaps seperate the characters and foreground from the clouds with a few soft rays of light in front of the clouds.

These are just my opinions so feel free to disregard, but I hope they help. Best of luck with it!

[Akiman]

thank you south-paw. Noted and appreciated :).

well anyone else? is it good or bad? what do you suggest?

[Lamster]

:thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

That dragon looks really wise in the sketch. It seems to me that you are taking this picture slightly more into an illustrative style compared to a photorealistic style (hmm, something wrong about the terminology). I'd like to see some of that wisdom and life in the dragon's eyes in the sketch be rendered out in your painting.

More about the dragon though, I rather liked your sketch better as it doesn't have the fold lines in the neck region like your painting does. I think you may want to consider drawing the stripes version instead... Also, you might want to consider letting his head scales extend down the top of his neck. Right now, I kinda get the impression that the painted dragon head looks a little bit like a erm... a little bit phallic.. :eek:

Love the girl in the armour though. She looks like a hottie :)

Terence

[Akiman]

After a couple of busy weeks i've done a little more i added nails, a tower sketch,
an eye and some other stuff...i think old place of the eye is better ill change it.I added a blue light source at the right bottom.added more shadow to the dragon...i think ill soft clouds too...ill look into neck too. I think ill have more time...ill try to update asap..any critics or comments will be very appreciated

http://i2.tinypic.com/24ce3ar.jpg

[Overchord]

Don't take this the wrong way, but i think your update with the stripes on the dragon hasn't worked that well. I much preferred the texture that you were giving the upper part of the dragons head, the black lines seems a bit texture-less. If you were to give the rest of the body a simialr thexture as the head and then haved the black markings integrated into this it might work, but I don't think it works particularly well on its own. This is of course jsut my opinion - so feel free to disregard :D

The first update was really impressive, and i think your progress on the dragons head has worked really well. It will be interesting to see how the background tower develops, you might get a problem with the sharp contrast on the sky directly in front of the tower, but you mentioned softening the clouds already.
This is defineitly a great picture in progress, so keep it up :thumbsup:

[Akiman]

thank you overchord for your comments ill look into it :)

[kowalski]

It looks god damn Awsome
cept maybe too much red
; \

[Akiman]

http://www.asikuzun.com/Fate_And_Hope_by_Akiman.jpg
Finished...I'm so sorry i couldnt keep up with wip thread...so many stuff so little time :( ...
but anyway hope u like it!

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