NHM Challenge Linda Smith

#61

I would go for the Woodsy one, definitly the best in mood, lighting, detail, the frozen version is good but it is looking too sketchy to me , give a try to the Woodsy , I already see that one as a really nice concept

#62

wow thanks for the great response :slight_smile: This will help loads

Rei - Thank you my friend, you have been a great help and I agree I lack confidence in my digital painting. I don’t know if it is because it is so new to me or if it is because there is so much talent in these forums it is intimidating. Probably a bit of both :slight_smile: I’ll get over it in 5 or 6 years ha ha

Calisto - Thank you a lot for the advice on the blue for shadows, I will give that a try and play around with it.

Layer01- thanks a bunch for the post and helping me choose. I will try to fit in the head of old rexy, with some more vines and vegetation. See if I can get it to work :slight_smile:

henning - thanks, your advice is like “gold” to me and I appreciate tons and tons :smiley: I started painting in details on the left area as per your suggestion

Tiziano - Thank you very much for the post, ha ha hey hopefully I will keep leaping and bounding , then I can start painting kangaroos … or frogs

jamesvfx - I agree 100% about the frozen one, it was really fun when I first tried the concept. I started trying to fit the building into the environment and created smudgy mess, I realized after 7 months of winter here I really didn’t want to paint snow .Thank you for the comments.

#63

Yep, well I did a posr reply 2 days ago, but everytime i sended it it was like"Cgtalk is currently undergoing…"
Well anyway, I totally agree with Thaldir and wowowowowwwww Linda indeed you progress so fast!Amazing Miss Fishy!
ME too I kind a prefer the woody one, so nice,smooth and dreamy colors!!!
Although the icy one,actually is great too,the woody one is my favorite,huhu.
Hope hte input is helpfull and can’t wait to see the finish.
big up and may all the forzz and :love:be wizz you!!

#64

yabadabadooo OKMER :slight_smile: Thanks for dropping in and for your help , see if I can finish this thing now

just a ilttle update, adding a few details to the left side and tweaking some of the vegetation.

#65

Looking good Ivy00. I like this version.
My only comment so far would be to add a little foliage to the tree in the right foreground.
This will ease some of the tension created by the back wall of the structure sitting so close to the right edge of the image frame.

#66

Hey thanks quadart I will give that a try :slight_smile:

#67

Hey, I think that what you changed in the ice one work quite well by moving the dino tail. I think though that this newer warmer foresty jungle one is really really nice. Its got really nice atmosphere to it. You can kind of imagine the vines and vegetation all growing up around the building over time. Don’t really have many suggestions or crits this time cause it looks so nice :). One thing is it might be nice to show where some roots or planets have grown up from beneath a part of the building and forced its way through the concrete if you know what i mean. Would kinda show the force the vegetation is having on the building rather tahn the building looking like its just crumbled. The other thing is your overall lighting is very similar in all the image. With that nice sky you’ve got going on it might be nice to pick out some sections with some brighter light patches, like breaks in cloud, or where the light is passing through an area of less dense vegetation. It might help to create a nice focal point. Anyway again feel free to take what u think it usuefull if any of it is :). Either way again i think its looking really good, looking forward to seeing what the finished thing will turn out like

#68

Thank you James for the very nice comments and the great advice. I am not sure if i will be doing roots since most of the foreground is underwater I do have some vine stems here and there but they are hard to see in such a small version of the image. I have not done much with the lighting yet and I have thought of many of the suggestions you mentioned for it, but ha ha not sure if I can pull it off. I will try though :slight_smile:

#69

big update here, trashed the sky could not get the depth I needed. Added more details here and there.

#70

Looking great Ivy! Those trees are a great touch. One thing though is the section of spine in the lower left is kind of unusual. If I didn’t see that other part of the skelton there and didn’t know what the plate was, not sure what I would see it as. Other than that, great colors and keep it up! :thumbsup:

#71

RQuack ha ha actually that is part of a rib cage :slight_smile: thanks for the compliments

little update here, not much changed

#72

Wow! The forest turned out even cooler! :smiley:
Great work on the atmosphere! :thumbsup:

#73

Looks Great but I think those trees in the background are a bit big

#74

the trees in the background are good.

#75

you got a little too much color variation going on. keep on going its getting better and better.

#76

Thanks Sonia for the nice comments :slight_smile:

pkneeshaw - Yes I thought about that, but you have to take into consideration this is many years in the future and some trees grow huge, so I decided to leave the big trees to represent old forest rather than the smaller skinny trees that take about 50 yrs to grow.

Thanks Proconpictures I agree after much thought on it that I want to leave them as is.

Inlakechh - Thanks , ha ha I will try to keep going, sort of at a loss atm as to what else it needs though, with the exception of some specular type light here and there.

#77

wow, really great! You know it may be cool to add some slightly fogged ruined shapes on the left between the large tree trunk and the more forground ruined pieces. Sort of blend the two together some.

Great stuff!

#78

oh great suggestion MarkyG, I actually have some other parts of the building I made into ruins just in case I wanted to use them anywhere. Thanks for the awesome compliments :slight_smile:

#79

Hey thats looking great! I have to agree with the comment about the spine (lower left) its a bit confusing, also have you tried to remove those bronze plarks on the far wall? (and maybee that pinkish box between them) I find my eyes being drawn to them which detracts from the rest of the image, other than that its looking good!
Matty2x4

#80

as per markyg’s suggestion I added a little ruins inbetween the tree and the left side ruins. ha ha Matty that was on my todo list and had already taken care of it. I didn’t remove the plaques just aged them a bit with moss. The dino rib cage is staying though :slight_smile:

I want to call this done, so if anyone has any crits and it is within my ability to make the changes I would really appreciate. Thanks