First Matte Painting(?)

[everlite]

Hi Anton,

Welcome to CGtalk and thanks for posting :)

Your work holds a strong composition and is a good start. With your next piece try to think about using more depth, at the moment this feels a little flat. Think about stronger lighting and shadows, introducing these will instantly begin to pull out the painting. Think about the direction of the lighting and the way this interacts with the scene. Also there's a strong temptation to over colourise layers in photoshop, as you have with the clouds, they're monochromatic green, if you observe clouds from a photo reference they're made up of many different colours from blues to reds, pinks, yellows etc..

A promising start :)

Best,
Dave.

[padsken7]

Thanks for good advices, David :)
And one question... how to achieve the depth? It's only shadows? Or maybe some fog or sunlight? Or something else?

[padsken7]

my next, second work... first step is sketch

[padsken7]

step two - the first mountain, texturing and light

[padsken7]

step 3
http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/1640/mattep2step3.th.jpg (http://img19.imageshack.us/my.php?image=mattep2step3.jpg)

[padsken7]

i don't get the sand, i know it's badly... help me, how to paint the sand?

http://img150.imageshack.us/img150/5472/finald.th.jpg (http://img150.imageshack.us/my.php?image=finald.jpg)
http://img150.imageshack.us/img150/finald.jpg/1/w1280.png (http://g.imageshack.us/img150/finald.jpg/1/)

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