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[cadeia]

Hi all, I’m new here and this is my first matte painting. I’ve just gotten into it and I’m know I’ve got loads to learn and I’m hoping to learn a lot here. Any suggestions, crits and comments are very much appreciated. Thanks.

[JJASSO]

hey Lexy welcome to the matte painting forum! this technique is not easy and will need your practice and dedication, I suggest first go through the tutorials’ sticky thread inside here and start learning from it, in this image I can see that you have an idea / concept that needs to be polished, you need some lenear perspective and aerial perspective , the edges of each element are too sharp and the lack of detail on them makes it look too CG, my point is that this is an interesting concept, go to the tutorials, learn from , take your time and re work on this image again, that’s what I used to do in my eraly matte painting days, I used to paint or to work in one image several times, everytime I learned something I would apply it, and thus you will get better and better, this takes time , if you rush things to happen just to see a final image will not make you a good artist, you brain has to figure it out and your eye will spot the failures in each image , keep it up and you are welcome to post anytime !

[everlite]

Hi Lexy,

Welcome to the forum! Agreed with everything Jaime said above, though from my own experience working into the same image over and over tends to make me over look the flaws and errors, if i find myself at a point where i cant go any further i’ll start a new painting and come back to the first one with fresh eyes. It’s always important to be able to look at your work with a fresh eyes, one method is to flip your image every few hours, i’m not sure if this is just me, but doing this allows me to see issues with composition and perspective. Also zooming right out has a similar effect. All said what works for one might not work for another, so feel free to experiment

It’s also important to observe others, look at other peoples work and see if you can figure out why it works, if you see something that you feel looks poor, then ask yourself why so you can learn to avoid similar mistakes. Observing others is one of the key steps in developing any creative skill. You can find lots of video demostrations around the internet, there’s a few over at www.3dtotal.com in the tutorials section. Gnomon has a wide collection of DVDs if you have the money. Also just browsing through www.vimeo.com can turn up a bunch of demonstrations.

Hope that helps a little, again keep posting work. Maybe for your next project do a little preplanning. Discuss your ideas here so you can get feedback from others on the best approach.

Dave.

[cadeia]

hey Lexy welcome to the matte painting forum! this technique is not easy and will need your practice and dedication, I suggest first go through the tutorials’ sticky thread inside here and start learning from it, in this image I can see that you have an idea / concept that needs to be polished, you need some lenear perspective and aerial perspective , the edges of each element are too sharp and the lack of detail on them makes it look too CG, my point is that this is an interesting concept, go to the tutorials, learn from , take your time and re work on this image again, that’s what I used to do in my eraly matte painting days, I used to paint or to work in one image several times, everytime I learned something I would apply it, and thus you will get better and better, this takes time , if you rush things to happen just to see a final image will not make you a good artist, you brain has to figure it out and your eye will spot the failures in each image , keep it up and you are welcome to post anytime !

Thanks Jaime :). You’re right about rushing into things, I was a little excited into doing it. I’ll be sure to check out all the tutorials in the forum and rework on it. Thanks again for commenting.

[cadeia]

Hi Lexy,

Welcome to the forum! Agreed with everything Jaime said above, though from my own experience working into the same image over and over tends to make me over look the flaws and errors, if i find myself at a point where i cant go any further i’ll start a new painting and come back to the first one with fresh eyes. It’s always important to be able to look at your work with a fresh eyes, one method is to flip your image every few hours, i’m not sure if this is just me, but doing this allows me to see issues with composition and perspective. Also zooming right out has a similar effect. All said what works for one might not work for another, so feel free to experiment

It’s also important to observe others, look at other peoples work and see if you can figure out why it works, if you see something that you feel looks poor, then ask yourself why so you can learn to avoid similar mistakes. Observing others is one of the key steps in developing any creative skill. You can find lots of video demostrations around the internet, there’s a few over at www.3dtotal.com in the tutorials section. Gnomon has a wide collection of DVDs if you have the money. Also just browsing through www.vimeo.com can turn up a bunch of demonstrations.

Hope that helps a little, again keep posting work. Maybe for your next project do a little preplanning. Discuss your ideas here so you can get feedback from others on the best approach.

Dave.

Hi dave :).

Thanks for the advice. I’ll take some time to check more tutorials before reworking on the painting. You’re right with the fresh eyes, sometimes looking at the image too long makes you see past some errors. I’ll make sure to learn and observe from other painter’s techniques and hopefully develop my own. Thanks again for commenting!

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