Please give some feedback - An ogre drawn by Tomas Salles

[tomassalles]

I've been coloring the ogre. Starting by the shadows. Since the light is coming from the back I believe it is important to take the time to project the shadows over the monster in the begining.

[tomassalles]

created a layer and painted the base color. I would love to hear some tips for coloring the ogre skin. The backlight effect is quite hard to do.

PLEASE I WOULD LOVE TO HAVE some FEEDBACK!

Thanks in advance.

[DArcy1]

Don't know if I can help much, your drawing skills are definitely better than mine.. having said that, I would pick a definite color besides grey for the light hitting the front of his body (maybe a cool blue), and paint it like there was a small, low intensity light on the ground in front of him just out of camera range. Then I'd pick an opposing color (warm orange?) for a light source behind him. Once you figure out where the light source is it should make it easier to decide on highlights and shadows.

If you have a camera it's always fun to take a picture of yourself in the dark with a light source behind you, and another with a light in front of you to really see where everything lies.

You should definitely finish this one :-)

D.

[tomassalles]

Thaks so much Darcy,

I'll definately work on finding those touches of blue and yellow (front and back). I guess I'm struggling with the fact that there is no light at all coming from the foreground. I search for this KEY light direction too

Tomas

[tomassalles]

Here is how it starting to look after I've painted the bluish foreground Keylight. It is starting to look better, but please, keep telling me how to enhance this painting.

I'll be very happy to hear more...

:bounce:

Tomas

[RalphDamiani]

So far so good, I like what I see. I'll hold back the critiques before you're a bit ahead on this one.

[Maladie]

Great update Tomas, and you're doing awesome on the painting! This proves my theory that if you can really draw and understand form, painting's 'easy':D.

Not much to say - keep going!

[ajay1589]

This looks like its going to be great! I like it already, especially the idea to put the light emitting from his mouth and eyes. Keep us updated!

[tomassalles]

Thanks for all the reply's!:)

Now I'm feeling confident to keep going on the rest of the creature's bluish skin.
I roughly worked on the rocks and will try to keep painting the rest soon.

Tomas

[tomassalles]

I had very little time to work on the OGRE, but today I've detailed his skin a bit more(see detail).

Also, I've been thinking about changing the light on the BG.

OPTION1 - I thought of keeping the way it is and working on a foggy light coming from behind,

OPTION2 - maybe turn the sky into a foggy night with the moonlight shinning on his back.

Here is a rough example of how it would look.

Please help me choose between these two options.

Thanks.

[RicoD]

Cool ogre!

I'd go with option 2. As nice as the rays of light are, it makes the Ogre look heroic or something like that. Being an ogre and all that it's probably not very noble. Unless he's holding up the ceiling of the cave so it won't collapse until little Timmy can get out. ;)

The moonlight gives it a 'creature of the night' look, to me. Like it just came back from rampaging outside and is now returning, still in a foul mood (maybe there were no villages nearby to loot and plunder).

Anyway, very educational to see how you progress and see which steps you take. And it definately sparks my imagination!

[gronke]

First off, amazing job on the ogre. I love the shadows.

My only critique would be that your sky needs some work. I know that the orge is the main focus of the piece, but when your eyes wander around the picture you notice that the sky is just a few swabs of color. If you blended it a little bit so that the actual brush strokes disappeared to reveal a beautiful sunset (it's a sunset, right?) then that would be awesome.

Good work though!

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