learning by doing (painting)

#61

thanks roykun, this is awsome. I like your second proposal, and will give that a try even if that means to start the figure from scrach. Thank you very much for taking the time and giving me tipps. I appreciate that very much. This motivates me to spend some more hours with that picture.

#62

a 45 min attempt :wink:

#63

hehe, leno. Nice picture but the wrong thread. :beer:

But never mind. Just post it again in the daily speedpainting thread.

#64

sorry tednindo i submited in the wrong thread, by the way nice stuff :wink:

#65

— Looking for an outfit and look for a gothic girly:

#66

and here’s the next step, I think I will end this one pretty soon. But before I do some last corrections and touch ups I would like to hear your comments on it. What should be changed, what should be beefed up… Thank you.

The steps leading to this one can be viewed here:last page

#67

Right now it’s too sharp; and if everything in a image is sharp, that attention is dispersed, and eye flow and focus can be disrupted.

I’d like to see some more details on the frontsoldier, but also blurring the robot slightly.

Looks great,
cheers!

#68

thank you alexhansson for taking the time and delivering such a good hint. I added some blur here and there, and the image is far better readable. Although I’m not happy that I had to use the blur filter for that.

#69

It feels so dirty using filters, doesn’t it? Hence why I dislike using them too. Looks a lot better, I’d still like some more detail on the front soldier; is it the armor made of metal/copper by the way?

Cheers!

#70

yeah it just feels wrong, after such a long time working on it. Maybe I’ll find a better way to achiev a similar result. And I’ll add some more details to his armor. And I’m thinking about some big dustparticle in the air.

#71

I’m going to remove the blur, its just to cheap. I’ll try to get that effect without a PS-Filter…

#72

With this post I declare this painting as finished. I enjoyed painting it very much and I like to thank everyone that took the time and helping me with critic and comments.

#73

Nice job! Good feeling of action and movement, and of course imminent danger! As a side note, i like it better without the blur filter. However, i do think using various filters CAN help an image, but it all depends on how they are used and the context of that filter within the image. Most of the time i use a filter, its just a means to a different end, for example using noise and motion blur to create scratched metal… and so on. Rarely does a filter alone produce a desired effect, it usually takes extra steps. Anyway, great work looking foward to more.

#74

Thank your Rabid1 for your support. You are right again, Filters aren’t bad in general, but in that particular case I just didn’t like it. But I used a PS-Filter afterall. Can’t remember which one it was. I copied the whole image and used a artistic filter, that made the image more rough. Then I used it as transparent overlay.

#75

here is just a quick sketch i did before going to bed.

#76

Not 100% on anatomy but isn’t the legs slightly too long?

Cheers!

#77

Thanks AxelHansson for stoping by. And yes the legs are a bit long, but I don’t know if thats to bad because the figure is a bit stylised.
Funny thing is, that in general I tend to make the legs a bit to short. So I’m sort of happy to hear this kind of critic.

#78

this is what I’m working on right now. It still needs some time…

#79

just wanted to try that speedpainting thing. But I have to say that I wish that it would have turned out better. Well I’ll keep on…

Any good tips would be highly appreciated.

#80

Both updates look good, I like the idea of the space boys too… that one will be very cool. Is he reaching for a star?