attack the alien colony

#1



hello, here is my personal work, the whole image perspective and the elements needs to be in correct position, I’m working on it… Watching FZD videos from youtube is really inspirational…

#2

A couple things:

More color! It’s very flat, because you have the same values and colors in the foreground and background. To be honest, it’s not visually interesting, it’s all the same tone throughout, your contrasts are scattered and not uniform, and the entire piece reads as “grey”.

You have all horizontal and vertical lines, very few angled lines, very few curves, and there’s no real focus to this piece. What are we supposed to be looking at? You seemingly also have no perspective to give the eye the visual clues it needs to read depth and space into the scene, along with the color issues.

You’ve also got a mish-mash of focus going on - the foreground is blurred, yet objects that are supposed to be in the far background are in sharp focus. It’s jarring to the eye, and works against the depth that you should have.

The videos you mentioned are fine, but they gloss over a lot of background training and experience that helps puts scenes like this together. Study how to create depth, mood, texture, and volume with color, and lighting, and focus less on complicated subjects until you master the basics. It strikes me you’re rushing through to get to the fun stuff, ignoring the fundamentals, things like perspective and color composition. It’s a common thing for new artist to do, if so, just slow down! :slight_smile:

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#4

The tilted verticals are disturbing, everything appears to be falling over.
It’s small, but as far as i can see the level of detail is fairly uniform from foreground to background. What is the subject? Is it the central building - in danger of being hit? If it is - then some coloured lights in there would draw the eye, suggest habitation/warmth/life.
The “thing” on the upper right disappearing out of the frame is troublesome. If that’s the subject then woops.

Of course, “your mileage may vary”

Cheers,
Alan

#5

No, you’re right - in the center of the piece, in the focal point, there is nothing happening. Your eye just wanders around, and there’s no cues to the narrative, if you’re lucky you spot the creature in the upper right, and figure out what’s going on.

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