Genetic Genius wip

[exStatic1]

Wow! That's a really impressive drawing! I think the colors you use are going to determine the mood of the piece, just keep em on the dark side and it should work, but yeah, awesome drawing.

[Greenham]

Fantastic work.

Perhaps this piece could be improved if the 'mad scientist' was actually look at his creation instead of what I presume is a computer screen. Surely it would be of more interest to him than whatever is on the screen. It looks as if he's almost oblivious to what he's creating.

Best of luck with the colouring.

[Nennad]

Hey thanks for comments, ill try to keep it on dark side, with highlighted tetails!

And yeah i thought also myself and struggled whether he will look at screen or at creature, but like I was more fond to leave him oblivios (half/mad :) ) as you said. But now when you said it, ill try to experiment and just try to leave had where it is and make him gaze at the creature.. just to see how it works.

Thanks!

[Tymotzues]

I'm with ExStatic on this one - WOW!
outstanding sketch. I think if you can paint it as well as you drew it you could be looking at frontpage. Good luck.

[Nennad]

Hey Thanks Tim for encouraging words :)

However, here is first color pass... Keeping picture dark, i am using reduced color palette with some peaks of vivid colors. Creature is warm, swelling with future life, scientist is "undead" like.

Of course this is rough, i plan about three colour passes. Here the drawing lines are somewhat preserved...
Opinions surely welcome!

http://www.nenadpantic.com/cgs/crazy2.jpg

[Nennad]

I am working now on "second pass" volume colors, just a small update... some colours here will be more blended...

http://www.nenadpantic.com/cgs/crazypass2a.jpg

[Tymotzues]

Looking good :)

[exStatic1]

Yeah that's looking really cool! Just a thought but I think if you switch the color from reddish to greenish, it'll give it a more sciency lab type feel to it, as it is now, there's a whole lot of reddish and warm colors, I'm not sure if the tone really matches the drawing, but whatever you decide to do it's looking pretty cool, just something to mess with.

[Nennad]

Thanks guys for watching my progress :)

It was suggested to me on another forum wip thread that maybe a green colour would be better for creature bulb, and maybe it is not coincidence that you mention something like that here... Well it was my goal to stay in brown colour gamma, to achieve sepia/retro/old photo mood, but now when you mention it i could play with hue/saturation a little to see where it leads. At the present state the picture is still into modelling volume phase so it is possible to switch to another. I will check it! Thanks... :thumbsup:

[Greenham]

I agree with exStatic1 wholeheartedly. A green or blue colour scheme would improve the mood of this piece a lot and make it more typical of the horror genera.

[Nennad]

Hey all,

I experimented a little with a overall mood... I have two options, and i am ready to change ovreall color scheme :) I am not sure yet to have green or blue version. Blue/magenta/dark version is more horror like, while green one is more sick/acid like.

What say you, green or blue?

Thanks!




http://www.nenadpantic.com/cgs/geneticwip.jpg ?

[Tymotzues]

Well I honestly liked the warm palette you chose first off.
While the green has that whole alien, unearthly thing going for it, the blue is just too cold - and the green is just such a cliche.
The warm palette you had going had energy to it and brought out the details well. I'm not saying it couldn't have used a green or blue in there but I think keeping to a strict palette of colours for the majority of the image will only add power to part of the image where you then decide to use green or blue.
Certainly a blue for the electricity bolt and maybe a deep green for the goo bubbling away in the tank and oozing out to the floor. But I think choosing a predominantly green or blue palette will ruin any idea of iron and rusty textures on the machinery, leather on the chair and the scientists clothes and give you fewer choices to the final piece.
:shrug:

[Greenham]

Oh dear, I should have been more careful about what I suggested. I had a much more subtle green or blue in mind - so you get a really murky sort of feeling.

Like this:

http://img367.imageshack.us/img367/1520/crazy2xm4.jpg

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