matte_painting

[eev776]

Interesting mood you have in this forest with mist.
Good use with different lighting, foreground dark and background has a light,
feels like I want to walk to the light.


But needs more contrast I guess...

[escapizm]

even though its only in the early stages, i really like it. the composition looks great and it look like its going to turn into a nice piece!

[gentatsu]

Here is an update with work being done to the righthand side of the piece.

Escapizm, thank you for your comments. Hopefully I'll be able to turn it into something good.

Eev76, I've done what you've suggested and increased the contrast. Though I don't know if I've increased it enough.

http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k177/gentatsu_2006/mp02.jpg

[Salubri3i]

i don't know how far along you are in this but it's definitely a good one.

you could keep the contrast as is if you want a dreamy scape sort of thing but if you're going for something more real i think may have to define the forground more.

you certainly landed the feel of the painting man. it really creates the dilemma for the viewer. "should i go left or should i go right?".

nice stuff. hope to see more. :)

[pap87]

This is really good gentatsu!

I really like the detail you've put in there, and there's also a great sense of depth in the picture. It looks like the forest has been untouched for hundreds of years.

In my opinion it would be good to leave the far back parts as they are, monochrome with little contrast, and perhaps have some colour (not too much, something still close to the blue you have) as well as contrast in the foreground area.

I look forward to the next update:thumbsup:!

[gentatsu]

Hey thanks for your comments Pap87 and Salubri3i. I did try to put more contrast and detail into the foreground like you guys said because I wanted a more realistic look but with what I’ve done with my latest update it certainly doesn’t seem like it.

Below is the update. I've removed the brick tiles I previously had because I couldn’t paint it the way I wanted it to look so I changed it and I also made the back light source stronger.

http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k177/gentatsu_2006/mp03.jpg

[pap87]

Hey, nice update.

The foreground looks empty now that the bricks are gone.
This area is now begging for some colour after you put the yellow rays and broke the monochrome look.

Now that I remember, that movie file of the "behind the scenes of warcraft cinematics" has a part where they show how they layered up the forest environment if you remember. Unfortunately I lost that file, but the forest in that looks very similar to this one. Maybe you can remember that and get ideas from that, say like a pond in the foreground or something.

I like the way this is shaping up. Keep it up:thumbsup:!

[eev776]

Imagine yourself walking through this foggy forest, feels like you may be scared, you don’t know what going to happened after next step. So all you most concentrated is probably 20 feet radius around you, so everything in range of this 20 feet, must be in focus and most detail of all. Maybe those steps that going up, where you going to do your next step. You see what I mean?

Imagine if you have beautiful ferry, in that light on the background, you will definitely put her in focus, contrast and area around her. Or if some knight walking with a sword on steps, you will put steps and him in focus. If there is ferry and knight, you will put distance between them in a best focus and detail, right. If it an image of forest, just highlight area of interest, using contrast, or details either you want to show dark foreground or light on background, or distance between – its all about area of interest.

You have to decide what you want to show, and then just put it in focus, show more details of that part or maybe use contrast.

[mikebot]

Nice start! Sounds like you've gotten some good critique already, just thought I'd add a couple things I noticed - but I'm certainly no expert. First, I think compositionally I like your first posting the most. Having the path on the left made it seem more balanced, I think. The current iteration is bugging me a little, the central tree seems like it should be a little further to the left, and the light and ground seems very symmetrical to either side of it. I liked the idea of the bricks in the foreground.

The other thing I'd suggest is that you check your perspective, the ground near the front seems to be facing the viewer a little too much, but I could be wrong, it's hard to get a read on the persp right now. I'm really not one to talk about perspective, haha, but figured I'd mention it anyway.

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