Smoky Train (First Post/Digital Painting)

[Zhrike]

Anyone? Must be spot on perfect then. Thanks!....................kidding of course.

[Zhrike]

Ok, lets try this. Any other online communities willing to give feedback to a noob artist? Please let me if you have any bookmarked. Thanks.

[frostblade]

Conceptart.org (http://conceptart.org/forums/)
Maybe same result but you never know. That place is an excellent read even if you don’t get a reply there.

Here is a well know cloud tutorial. Might work for smoke like that.
http://www.androidblues.com/cloudtut.html

You can browse more, socialise to make friends in the drawing circle in hope for advice.

Check out people's websites for tutorials and tips. You must read a lot of them to find a balance you can depend on and use later.

I have received advice like this:

“There is no point in making a thread to ask for help as people are not obligated to help you. They owe you nothing. It’s their time and knowledge you ask for and they don’t have to give it to you and especially to a stranger for free”.

I thought that was a pretty realistic piece of advice. It points out a lot of things. Like a types of culture, human nature and etc.
Not that I’m passing that on as discouragement for making a WIP thread or anything. I only mean to point that out as a reason for lack of response. Better to depend on yourself for finding useful information than to wait for it to float your way. I would be nowhere if I just depended on people coming to help me via my thread.

This thread for example is an ideal response?

OP:
http://conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=68607
(http://conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=68607)
Ideal reply:
http://conceptart.org/forums/showpost.php?p=870193&postcount=11

Not many people get lucky and score tips tailored to their specific problem but we can still learn from their problem and solutions.

That’s my grain of salt or 2 cents.
Good luck with digital painting.

[Zhrike]

Excellent reply. Thanks for the help. The smoke tutorial looks great. Its just the process I couldnt nail down and that url seems to help with that. Ill give it a shot and repost.

Also thanks for the tip about conceptart.org

[kazziu]

Looks solid to me, the clouds and bushes could use some additional work as mentioned before, and the train could be a key darker aswell.

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