Spectacular 2D Entry: Petri Järvinen

#21

Great specular hilights, it really feels like ice!
Something else in the picture to give it scale could help… Is she life-sized? The size of a sky-scraper? Try adding some more visual clues! :slight_smile: Good luck!

-mike

#22

Looks great, Petri! Xillions idea is really good and you executed it really nicely. I would like to lick that ice sculpture… hehe! ;D Also the idea that Walrus gave you sounds also excellent… some skyscrapers… try to make them lower than girls knee…

#23

this really is a beautiful piece Petri!! very solid man, really does look like an ice sculpture! keep up the great work…

#24

this is really spectacular…the reflections look wonderfull :slight_smile: good luck…can’t wait to see more

#25

The idea is solid and it’s hard to believe at such an early stage that the ice looks so real already! Great work. Keeping an eye on your entry

#26

Woah! This pice improved amazingly since I was in here last time :eek:
Keep it up :thumbsup:

#27

I’m kind of having problems with detailing snow, and how thick/thin should the ice be.
I honously tried to detail that snow, but the overpaint layer allways went straight to trashcan. 6 times.
Perhaps tomorrow I’ll do better.

#28 
heh :)

walrus: Hmm, perhaps the scale will show better, when I start detailing.

Anyways, I don’t know what to put there. I tried several things, but they just drew attension (or changed the feeling) from the main subject, and that wasn’t good.

I could test tomorrow if it works, that if some of the ice was melted. Altough, it reminds me of Iceage(movie), but I’ll try it anyway. :smiley:

Thanks for your symphaty guys :)
#29

nice i love the lighting personaly i don’t think you need too much detail in the snow the focus is on the ice lady but the way it looks now is awesome brilliant work il be watching this…

#30

I like your idea.

I miss surroundings.

About the ice/snow - I think main parts (figure, block, underground) nshould be hard ice. Than lay a fine powdery now over it. I think it would look good.

About the surroundings.

What if there where some life in it? eg a butterfly or a flower? Wouldn’t that be spectacular?

#31

Gosh!!! How do you know what colours do you need to create ice? You’ve learned that by yourself? The picture is really very nice. I would only change two things: her forehead and the belly. The forehead is too big. It makes her face less delicate. And with the belly. It’s too big as well. She looks like one of Rubens’ “Three Graces” (meybe without cellulitis) If that’s the idea then leave it as it is, however I would slim her.

And about the snow. Don’t detail it too much. Just signal that this is snow

Good luck!:thumbsup:

#32

How about helping yourself with some reference ? I very much like how Keith Parkinson rendered snow in this piece…which indeed is one of my favourites.

#33

wow! that ice statue looks amazing! i wish i knew more spectacular words than ‘amazing’ to compliment it even more.

#34

nice sket, but… I wanna see something more spectacular…:shrug:

#35

hie there~ur progress are going pretty strong and solid there~hmm,however,like they mentioned about the scale and the size of the sculpture would definitely adds up the spectacularity of it.great reflection and refraction study here~i was wondering how they sculpt the hair~:scream:keep it going

#36

Very nice. I might be cool (no pun intended) to see some kind of horizon reflected in the ice, or at least a hint of one.

#37

ChrisThatGuy: I tried that, but then it became a mess of reflections, and since the sky is black or dark blue, it should reflect only that glowing snow and street lambs. I like to keep works not too realistic, because then they tend to lose the feeling, and become just a photograph of some thing.

sh@ke: Thanks, I really appreciate your comment. I had hair as one tube in those prevous versions, like they would propably sculpt it, that it wouldn’t brake. But since that didn’t look so interesting, I gave up from that idea of keeping this so realistic. And I will think of something for scale.

Ducklator: I’m trying :rolleyes:

Mordalles: Thanks

Xillion: Thanks again. I tried to google snow, but found nothing that I was looking for. Your reference picture might help, I’ll try it out.

Narida: I think it’s about thinking how it would look. All the time I’m looking and wondering things, and phondering why they look like that, where does that shadow/light/color come from, and why. How does that work. Things like that.
I also Googled some Ice sculpture references, to study more on the subject.

Zeitwolf: I was thinking more like a squarrel, but since it will propably draw attension away from the main subject and ruin the tense feeling, it propably won’t work. But I’ll try things that could work.

derykhopley: Thanks, when I put down some detail to the snow, it will be very lo contrast, and done with very small tonal variation, so it wound’t draw attension.

#38

I have other if you need them, but noone is under the same light condition so you would need a little tweaking. Just let me know!

#39

I think that when you decided to modify the sculputure to the ‘girl inside’ direction, the material started to look less like real ice, but it makes the image much more emotional, and deeper, and umm.,… I like it a lot.

#40

nice work, very nice …

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