quality feedback and lack of motivation

[matsman]

Hello,

I saw nobody has replied yet to motivate you.. So let me be the first :)
I really like your pictures, they may not be all that high detail glossy goodness you see around but I like the style and the sketchy feel they have. Especially the guy with the helmet we only see in silhouette is a very strong piece of imagery. And you have a beautiful girlfriend :) .
For me the tower (and the tree on top even more so) needs a little more contrast, and a little more blueish light from the moon to make it pop a little... it looks a little bland at the moment I think.
The samurai doesn't really work for me since I would be interesting in seeing his head/helmet in a little more detail... now it feels a little like an ink blob I think.

Please keep us updated on what you are going to do with the last sketch.. looks quite promising.

Greetz

[a-gomez]

Hey thanks for pointing out something that was on my mind, I thought it looked abit bland for the tower image here is the old version and below that is the new one.

http://www.tallguystudios.com/artwork/images/environments/my_tower.jpg
http://www.tallguystudios.com/artwork/images/environments/my_towerv2.jpg

[NoPancakeMix]

Interesting detail consistency, some parts (of the posted paintings) are very abstract and brush-driven while others are line heavy.

[a-gomez]

-NoPancakeMix- Yeah I truly dont know why I do that.... I sometimes start off with a line sketch and carry over to painting with large brush strokes and textures or vice versa. Maybe some day ill stick to one and not change it.

btw Here are some other pieces....

http://www.tallguystudios.com/artwork/images/characters/depression.jpg

I went to comic-con in san diego on the way back to arizona I saw these hills that just seem so lifeless...

http://www.tallguystudios.com/artwork/images/environments/landscape_desert.jpg

[matsman]

Aha!! Hello again!

I see you applied a curves/brightness-contrast to your tower painting. That is indeed making it look better but I would suggest to keep the purplish dustcloud the way it is and paint some blueish highlights on a separate layer, just to increase the light on the lit side of the tower. (probably then the curves is a little bit to strong but that is easily fixed) I know it is a little more work but I think a little subtlety can bring this a long way in atmosphere. If you want I could do a quick overpaint on what way i think this should be going.

By the way...Something I am trying to say everytime I make a point: I am no god in heaven so please do what you want to do. Take only notice on what strikes you as being true... But I believe you already got that :)

And... I like the new paintings you posted... and I seem to be a sucker for silhoutte shots since i really like your beast. :)

Anyway I'll see what it is you throw at us next!

[a-gomez]

-matsman- Hey go for it if you wanna do an over paint im all for an outside perspective on things, another way to approach my work is always good. And thanks for the feedback mats.

these next pieces are more disturbing but they came from my mind so cant be sorry about it. They were going to be used for this story but it never went through.

http://www.tallguystudios.com/artwork/images/sketch_misc/c02.jpg

http://www.tallguystudios.com/artwork/images/sketch_misc/c08.jpg

this was a concept painting for another site its a skeleton bass.
http://www.tallguystudios.com/artwork/images/design/skeleton_guitar.jpg

[matsman]

Well here it is...

Original:
http://10.38.22.1/www.tallguystudios.comm/artwork/images/environments/my_tower.jpg

And my overpaint:
http://www.matstm.com/CGtalk/my_tower.jpg

I did a lot of stuff... gave the stones some lighting... darkened up the sky around the moon... made the shadows darker... lighted up that rim of stones to give a little more depth... and painted some harsher light and dark on the tree to pop it, so you can actually see it first time around... oh and I painted a darker shadow in the purple dust and finally brought the saturation down a tad.

What do you think? Better?

[a-gomez]

Yes I like, especially the highlights at the top of the tree.... which ill be adding:)

[Noukah]

Cool stuff so far :)

And I do recognize myself in what you wrote about that love-hate feeling going on while creating. I bet everyone's had those feelings atleast sometime during their artistic life.
There's not much one can do, other than keep trying and keep doddling sketching, at least be doing something, and then hopefully, the block will go away for a while :)
Kinda corny, but I guess that the most important thing is that to have fun shile painting.

I like your sketchy style on your pencil drawings btw :)
Keep going!

[a-gomez]

Quick speed painting of something i saw in my head....

http://www.tallguystudios.com/artwork/images/environments/fishermans_boat.jpg

[a-gomez]

Matsman- thx again for the input here is my revised version complete

http://www.tallguystudios.com/artwork/images/environments/my_towerv3.jpg

[matsman]

Oh yes... that brings out the tree very well. I still think the contrast is to high though... but maybe I'll just shut up about it :)

are you going to take that speedpainting any further... could have some cool design feature... with that boat and all.. and maybe adding some technology along the coastline.

Glad I could make my point!

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