Master Bait

[TedNindo]

Hey, I guess some interessting lighting would help the image a lot. Go and hunt for some reference images of bonefires, they normaly create nice shadows and some darkglowing red lights. But Just some simple light areas and long shadows behinde the rabbit would bring your image forward. Hope that will help you.

[Greenham]

I'd completely forgotten about his shadow. I took your suggestions on board and had a play around with the brightness, saturation and colours of a couple of layers. So far I'm liking the result:

http://img72.imageshack.us/img72/964/masterbaitbe8.jpg

[chrisbeaver]

The lighting on the rabbit still needs work -- Check your values; his body's actually darker where the firelight's hitting him!

I might also suggest doing something with the rope. It doesn't look nearly tight enough to bind him up in any significant way; he's even able to just hold his arms to his sides pretty comfortably. If it's meant to be tight then you could get his arms behind his back or around his front; if it's meant to be loose you could paint it loose.

[Greenham]

Thanks for the reply, chrisbeaver.

I've had difficulty with the rope from the start. When I first drew it, it looked a lot looser. I tightened it up a bit by removing the slack in the rope. I'm not quite sure how to make it look tighter. My impression is that there need to be more loops around his torso and they need to be exactly horizontal to look tens; however, I tried doing that before and it stopped looking like rope at all. I'll have another play around.

[VISEone]

Nice idea. I know, this should still stay a cartoony way but my older WIP might still be helpful with the lightning of this fireplace-scene. Anyway I learned a lot from it.

Dragon WIP (http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=31&t=569117)

looking foreward to an update...

[Pegahoul]

for eerie feeling, use small, claustrophobic space. The less distance between safe place (bonfire) and the danger (those scary eyes) the scarier it will be
for dramatic feeling, you can make use of high contrast between the darkness of forest and the brightness of the fire
for scary eyes and scary forest reference, check out disney's snow white ^^

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