B-Movie Entry: Fernando Garcia

#21

I like the dynamic flow of this last sketch very much.

#22

Hey Fer,

Really cool composition, like a lot. Nice pose on the man hanging the shootgun. Like the cleaning lady on the image. Perhaps she can be in a comfortable rest position leaning on her broom, only a comment :slight_smile:

Cool work and waiting for more :smiley: Cheers! :beer:

(Pués a darle duro a los tequilazos que va muy bien tu concepto tocayo :D)

#23

This is a coloring test for the last sketch… I’m not very sure about the cleaning lady there, I might try something else and post it later… :slight_smile:

#24

hi there!
I liked the preview version of the scene but this one is cool too. More dynamic with interesting distorted perspective. I think that adding the rain you have achived very nice mood. Plus blood from bulls mouths add twisted scary atmospheric touch. You can think now about a background to add even more twist. For example a church or wild west style saloon. The color paletty are nice too. Maybe the astronaut’s suit for a girl don’t appeal to me so much. Preview one with hat was very cool I think. Ok so stay alive and keep fighting. Cheers!

#25

I’ve been thinking that having a mix of zombie-ghost farm animals plus one cleaning lady doesn’t make much sense, so here is what it would look like if the protagonists were being attacked by a larger amount of scary housewives…

So, what do you think? zombie animals? they look more scary and it makes more sense… cleaning ladies? it’s funnier and perhaps more original… or a mix of them? (like previous posts), it looks weird, but well, I guess B-movies were weird and didn’t make any sense most of the time :stuck_out_tongue:

David - thanks! :slight_smile: glad that you like it
Fer - graciaaaas! I like the idea of the woman resting on the broom, I tried it in this new one with the woman in the back but I think I didn’t get the right pose, I’d need to keep trying :slight_smile:
Piotr - thank you for those ideas, yes, I need to experiment a bit more with the background, although I didn’t want it to be very complicated… I’ve also removed the helmet from the girl in this last one, but I’m not very sure of what hat you were talking about, hehe… first idea was to make her an alien (a low-cost one, just painting her face red) but maybe I should chage her to the regular damsel in distress… we will see…

#26

I think you are correct, all cleaning ladies makes more sense, from a B-movie perspective. What if the female protagonist were clutching something the cleaning ladies wanted? Toilet paper? Plunger? Keep going, it is great!

#27

you were faster than me, hehe, I was editing my previous post to reply to you…
I’m liking that idea! So maybe they have been caught while they were stealing the precious and unique golden toilet-paper roll! it makes more sense that way, hehe :smiley:

#28

Hey Fernando!
Make 'em all cleaning ladies, make 'em all zombies :smiley:
Or alien possessed cleaning ladies, that perhaps would make more sense.
Tying them to the space girl.
Great angle.

#29

hey, guess what? our hero just become a gangster! so… gangsters, a space chick, a horde of cleaning ladies, and a spooky lighthouse… I think I could go on with this, and there’s just one month left now, so I should start moving…

thanks to everyone who was giving ideas and advices!

#30

Hey Fer,

Like a lot the new direction on your concept, I think this last composition and idea works really well, that can be a fantastic image :buttrock:

Waiting for more :smiley: Cheers!! :beer:

#31

Thanks Fer! I think that if there were a prize for the most collaborative person in this challenge, you’d have good chances to win it! you seem to be in every thread I look, and always commenting after my updates! (in fact I think there was such a prize some challenges ago but I think they are no longer doing it…)

I’ve been working a bit on this today, but I don’t think its worth showing yet…
Today I decided the exact location where the action will be happening, it’s here:

This is an abandoned lighthouse in Denmark, it’s called Rubjerg Knude Fyr, and it’s been abandoned and rehabilitated several times, but the wind there is so strong that it’s moving those sand dunes constantly, even the coast line is moving backwards, so they finally gave up against nature and abandoned it definitely… some houses are completely buried in sand, some are just partially destroyed… I really liked this place and I thought it would be nice to have it in my image, as some kind of tribute to those months I spent in Denmark some time ago…

Also, back to photoshop, i discovered today a useful trick, which will surely be obvious to most of you, but anyway… I found out that if I group several layers into a folder, all in normal mode, and then I set the group (folder) mode to multiply, I can have the layers inside the group adding to each other, and at the same time they are all multiplying to the rest of layers underneath… this way I can have things “hiding” behind other stuff inside the folder easily, like you do in normal mode, but then all of them are multiplying (or overlaying or anything else) against the rest of the image… not sure if I explained it well, it doesn’t sound so impressive now, but for me it was a nice finding…

ok, that’s enough for today, I’ll go and get some sleep… I’ll try to update tomorrow!
cheers!

#32

I used a pic of my lighthouse in the background as a ref, and I started throwing some values…
I think that setting the right values at the beginning should really help a lot to achieve a believable shading at the end… not sure I did it good enough, though, what do you think, is something too dark? too clear? too contrasty or lacking contrast in some areas?

#33

Hey Fernando! I likke the latest idea a lot and the composition is great! Can’t wait to see more!
Good luck!

#34

Nice! I think you have a strong composition there. The value scale is pretty good. The rim lighting is working well, maybe you could slightly increase the reflected light on the primary characters in the fore ground? I absolutely love the character that is “snapping on” the glove. I especially like the dynamic quality of the piece itself, with the curvature in the fore ground creating motion and the lighthouse pulling you up and then having the lights lead you back into the piece. Keep going!

#35

Hey Fer,

Cool update!! Like a lot the lighting mood on your image. Perhaps you need make a more darker the clean lady (with the spray bottle) on the foreground to gain a bit on depth on the image.
Love the glowing feel of light from the ground.

Cool work and waiting for more updates. Cheers!! :beer:

#36

I’ve been refining the values and I’ll keep doing it for a bit more yet, but meanwhile here’s some tests I did trying some color compositions… I wanted to apply the theory that says that warm colors come closer and cooler ones go in the back… for the moment I think I prefer the bottom one, although characters wont be so monochromatic at the end…
I’ve also been playing with the lighthouse light… not sure where to place it, and I’ve seen that usually lighthouses have just one light beam, but if I remove one half it doesn’t look balanced…

Thanks for your comments guys! :slight_smile: I really appreciate them, I’ve tried to implement your suggestions, I don’t know if it’s any better now… and I’m really happy that you like the composition! :bounce:

cheers everyone! :beer:

#37

Hey Fer,

Like your color test. Think the bottom one can work really well, the purple tone for the background puts a nice B-Movie atmosphere on the image. Agree with you about the beam from the lighthouse, think in that position make balanced the image and not distrat for the action.

Great work and waiting for more updates!. Cheers!!

:beer: <<<<<< cervatanas bien muertas para que te pongas a “chambear” (trabajar) :smiley:

#38

I’ve decided to detail the whole image in just black and white, and add the colors later… it’s something I’ve seen some people doing lots of times but I’ve never tried, so here I am…
for the moment just these 3 ladies finished, the rest will come, hopefully this week I should have free time for this…
ah, and I’m also getting rid of the lineart completely and going a bit more painterly, which is something I don’t usually do…

#39

Hey, it’s looking really nice! Of the color tests, I think the top 2 work better than the bottom one, because with those, you’ve got a nice warm/cool contrast between foreground and back. I slightly prefer #2 as I just like blue and orange more, but that’s totally subjective.

I’m leaving out a lot of the line art this time around too. I’ll respond to your question in my thread in more detail, though. My only crit would be that the heroes have such energetic, dynamic poses and the bad guys are a lot more static, less dynamic. Like this last guy you posted - he’s not even threatening them, just leaning on his broom, not about to clobber them with it or anything. Just seems a little mismatched.
But either way, good luck with the rest! :thumbsup:

#40

This lighting is very good. Someting ghostly. Excellent!!!