Spear Dance revision

[DArcy1]

Hi and glad to see you here. Just resize this so we can see it all without having to scroll around. It's also pretty jagged, a low quality jpeg which makes it really hard to comment on the quality of your work. Upload it to an image hosting site like flikr or photobucket - you can size it exactly and use a high quality jpeg, and then link to it using the yellow square icon when you post again.


Tks

D.

[linainverse23]

I know. It wouldn't let me add the orginial like I do for my gallery. the attatchment said that the max size I could add was 97k. how does it work to fix this?

[DArcy1]

Hi

You don't use the attachment function. The easiest way I've found is this: upload your image to imageshack, flikr, photobucket or some other image hosting site. 72dpi, 800x600 size (use File/Save for Web, in photoshop to get it down to that size - don't forget to rename it something like WIP1 - you don't want to overwrite your main painting).

Once it is there, open up another instance of your web browser - just click on the IE icon in windows. Come here and hit "reply" to your thread. Type your text, then go to the other open browser window. Click on the image on the imageshack page, hold the mouse key and drag it down to the taskbar over the cgtalk page and when the reply window pops up again , move the mouse over the reply window and let go of the mouse key. Your imageshack pic is now in your reply, as I've done below in a shameless bit of self promotion ( a detail of an acrylic painting I did before my photoshop days).

It sounds complicated as I read it, but it took me maybe 30 seconds to navigate to where the image was and do the drag and drop into this reply to you.

Hope that helps. Ask me again if it makes no sence :-)

D'Arcy


http://users.eastlink.ca/~ericbechard/images/gnomedet.jpg

[linainverse23]

Here's my modified image for "Spear Dance". All thanks go to you D'arcy1. Thank you very much. (it did take a while for me to get the hang of what you were saying, but I got it in the end).

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3426/3283698234_656193266e_b.jpg

[DArcy1]

Hi

It's really hard for me to tell where the light source is coming from here. in your ref photo, did you use a flash? It looks like the light is coming from in front of her, which you'd get with a flash. Could you post an image with a few arrows indicating where you see the light coming from?

Once we sort that out, time to work on the background. Right now it is really light, but your textures are kind of random - some things are very rough , others are smooth, with no rhyme or reason. My suggestion would be to toss the textures and just do some basic grey shapes to get the values correct - you can sort out where the shadows will then be. Shadows follow a rigid logic once you decide on your light source. PIck a different color for the ground vs the stones.

Finally, get rid of the textures on the dress for now. Lets get the shadows right 1st. You can't paint them until you decide on the ambient light. In a red room with a candle, direct light is yellow from the candle and red from the walls, outdoors in the sun direct light is yellow/white from the sun and ambient is blue - the bowl of the sky acts as a light source and lights everything the sun doesn't with a blue hue - except where you get reflected light from various objects, but lets get into that later.

Hope this helps.

D.

[linainverse23]

thanks for the info. I've been working on the updates, and I'll take what you said into consideration for more changes. You've been a big help. This why I love comments and critiques. It's to see what I miss.

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