catalog cover illustration "H", Bruce Kaiser (2D)

[zxerokool]

I think this is a great piece, you've managed to capture a certain nostalgic + painterly feeling, somehow I like the vitality of the orange car (my only minor critique would be that it blends abit too close to the desert behind it). However it also adds zest and live to the image. The rest of the colors and composition look fine to me. :]

It's always nice to work for clients who have taste and understand that they don't need to shove their brand down the throats of consumers.

if I may ask, roughly how long did you take to finish this piece?

[buster1951]

Thanks for the comments. I was under a tight deadline with this. There is about a month of weekends and verry late nights.
Bruce

[caipeng]

哦 很漂亮的一副作品

[Godwin]

The above comment in Chinese reads "wow, a very beautiful piece of work", and I must agree. It's the vintage look (in both subject and style) that really stands out, and I can see from your other works how it's possibly been carried over from what I assume was your training in traditional painting. It's rather refreshing to see something that isn't immediately recognisable as a digital painting, or that such distinction even matters.

The orange car seems a bit glaring, more so than the other cars, in the sense that it lacks a full range of values (the darks don't seem to get dark enough in relation to the surroundings) and thus also makes it look pasted-on-flat, but then again since I have not seen a hue so saturated painted on anything before my intuition could be completely mistaken.

[hinoon]

Very nice piece Bruce. I've done some cars in my time and I know how much work you have to put into it. My only major crit would be focus. There is no focal point so the eye wonders around and is not lead through the piece to where you would like people to end up. As for colours, that can be very subjective and unless there is a glaring "error" with colour theory, you've done ok. The lighting could be a bit more contrasty. It looks like it's lit on a cloudy day but the sky suggests that there might be some sunlight hitting different areas.
Anyway again nice work

[buster1951]

Thanks so much for the kind comments. I do struggle with the composittion and kind of wing it with the color. One thing to keep in mind with this piece is that it was done for a catalog cover and you have to think of it folded in half and only looking at the right half. The left half is almost just filler, but the client does like to have a completed painting to hang in his office. I really put of going to digital because I didn't know how the client would react to not having an "original", but he seams to be OK with a high-end mounted print out that he could frame.

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