moonlight castle - WIP

[Kanga]

The castle silhouette looks neat. The pic is a bit flat atm, maybe play with the elements a bit. Check out the masters of composition, which are strip artists. You can see I am not one of them.
http://www.art-werx.com/1styr/tavern.jpg

[AndersStensgaard]

Hi Kanga

Thanks a lot for the critique..

I like your composition, especially the way you could draw the eye trough that trail of fire…
But I also like what I have with the castle being in the background silhouetted against the moon… But maybe that’s just me falling into an old trap, of finding some element I like, and trying to do an illustration around that..

I’ll try to rethink what I’m doing..

Cheers,
Anders

[Kanga]

What I am trying to say is if you have a composition with everything the same size, on an even plane, balanced left to right and with very slight perspective its hard to get movement and it makes it hard to tell your viewer what is going on. Heavy use of perspective and positioning helps draw a viewer into the piece. A member on this forum provided this great link.

http://features.cgsociety.org/story_custom.php?story_id=3275&page=3

I think you should keep sketching and showing the raw elements here in various combinations and arrangements for others to look at.

[AndersStensgaard]

Thanks a sh**-load Kanga! That second post of yours, gave me a MAJOR huge aha!-moment..

And the link was also very helpful..

So here a some new sketches I did.. What do you think ??

Cheers,

http://content.snapixel.com/content/EBS1/m/AndersLyhne_fbe667200425.jpg?c=1275597233 (http://www.snapixel.com/200425/Photo-of-moonlight-castle-sketch02)



http://content.snapixel.com/content/EBS1/m/AndersLyhne_22e870200426.jpg?c=1275597233 (http://www.snapixel.com/200426/Photo-of-moonlight-castle-sketch02)

[Kanga]

You're welcome.

The sketches are telling more of a story dont you think?
That article is a pretty good one.

[Bran]

http://content.snapixel.com/content/EBS1/m/AndersLyhne_22e870200426.jpg?c=1275597233 (http://www.snapixel.com/200426/Photo-of-moonlight-castle-sketch02)

i think it would be better if you flip this image because of our reading direction, so that the eye follows the pointing hand of the man to the castle and not vice versa. :)

[AndersStensgaard]

Yes, I think they a telling the story a lot better.. But are they good enough ?

Thanks Bran, that was a helpful tip, i agree, it works better when flipped...

So, should I do more sketches? In that case, what should I think about, and what can I improve?

Cheers,
Anders

[AndersStensgaard]

So I made a few more sketches, and I couldn't decide, wich one I liked the best.. So I decided I would take two, and throw some color on there, to get an idea of the lighting and such..

I think i'm gonna go with the first one here.. any comments og ideas before I try and turn this into a illustration ?? And if this is no good, please tell me.. I don't want to spend hours on this, if it sucks anyway..

Cheers,
Anders

http://content.snapixel.com/content/EBS1/m/AndersLyhne_60ad96200939.jpg?c=1275681378 (http://www.snapixel.com/200939/Photo-of-moonlightcastle-sketch-02-color)

http://content.snapixel.com/content/EBS1/m/AndersLyhne_7b22e5200940.jpg?c=1275681379 (http://www.snapixel.com/200940/Photo-of-moonlightcastle-sketch-05-color)

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