Camo boat design - painting practice

#1

I’ve been painting this as practice, it’s a camo boat. Studying color and light and applying it here, what do you guys think I could improve?

#2

Try not to use dark lines for defining your shapes and details, if your intention is to paint with full values and colors to depict all shapes and forms and textures. However, if you want to incorporate line art in your painting, that’s fine too, but be consistent about it. What you have now looks haphazard, with clumsy dark lines that look more like you haven’t properly painted over them with correct values and colors, instead of intentional and distinct line art. Keep in mind that in real life, there are no actual lines–there are only values and colors and variety of edges (from very soft to very sharp).

Also, because of the way all those clumsy looking dark lines are seen throughout, it’s a lot harder to discern the different surface materials like wood, metal, plastic, etc.

#3

Thanks a lot, Lunatique, little by little, I’ll get there, for the next painting, I will have these terms in front of me.

#4

You might try to think more about how the light would be coming down through the straw hatching on top of the boat and illuminating the barrels in a diffuse way. It might color the light coming through and make it warmer, because the straw is a yellow color. Remember that light reflects off of water, too, so you would definitely have bounced light coming at the boat from the side toward us, making the colors brighter on that side from underneath.

Also, you said the boat is Camo, but it looks like the area that has camo print on it could use a lot more time spent on it because without the title I don’t think it reads that way yet.

#5

Thank you!

#6

Regardless of rendering the Concept’s solid. Love the shark face and taking on something with personality.

I’d like to see you knock out a few other variations or family of vehicles to see what you come up with. Once you have that go back to painting…good ideas have more value for now.

#7

Hey! Thanks a lot dude! That’s really nice of you.

I did have a more painterly version of it, the camo was really noticeable but the material wasn’t, so I sacrificed some of the art to breath the realism. I showed it to my 60 year old mom who doesn’t use the internet and she recognized right away what kind of vehicle it was and it had camo on it, so I guess it’ll be fine. :smiley:

I know I have to work more on renderings, I’ll get there.