Hello guys and gals. This is an idea I got after I got my new Pc up and running...

Uhm, yeah. Not much to say other than I need some critique on this! Especially on the part of getting the car to fit more into the scene proportionwise, it looks a bit off to me but I can't seem to wrap my head around it.. 

EDIT: And what sort of dress/outfit should the woman wear? I'm not sure myself.. Wedding dress?

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TheNorwegianKid
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I think your scale is a bit off all over. The figure looks too tall compared to the lighthouse(?) in the background, and the car is too small for the figure to fit in it. Unless she's meant to be a giant of course. As to what she should be wearing, it depends on what the story is and what your pic is supposed to be saying.

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Thanks BJ, the lighthouse is suppsoed to be way back into the background, that's why its so small. And the car is supposed to have a bit of distance between the woman and it. Guess I have some work cut out for me!

And for what the image is supposed to say, she is the wife/girlfriend/fiancee/similar to a fisherman,  which is out fishing in "The Perfect Storm"  and she is looking out over the sea, waiting and hoping that she'll see her husband/boyfriend/fiancee again.

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TheNorwegianKid
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Airbrush:

Thanks BJ, the lighthouse is suppsoed to be way back into the background, that's why its so small.

Yeah I got that . But perspective wise the woman would probably be taller than the lighthouse if she were stood next to it at the height she is now. I would make her smaller, which would have the added effect of making the storm look far more ominous.

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Okay! What should I do about getting the car to look right?

Feel free to do an overpaint too if you have time..

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TheNorwegianKid
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Here's a paint over then. I've scaled up the lighthouse and the pickup truck. Then scaled down the woman and adjusted some of the positions slightly. She's still a bit big for the truck, but that could be moved back a bit.

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That's great Marcus! Thanks a lot for that mate, that is really gonna help me. :)

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TheNorwegianKid
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Okay so I re-did it now, and I do think this looks much better myself than it did.

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Another update, this time with the truck.

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TheNorwegianKid
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Looking a lot better. I still wasn't sure about it until you added the truck in there. I think she still needs to be a touch smaller, at the moment the truck is nearer to us than she is, but she looks too big to fit in it (again).

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Thanks, yeah I'll try and sort it out. =)

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TheNorwegianKid
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One thing I like about banjaxedmdt's paintover is that the woman looks like she's standing higher up on top of some cliffs. If there is a fierce storm I think that would make more sense because there would be big waves crashing up against the rocks. Presumably that's why she's worried right because of the rough sea?
But in yours, she's ankle deep in calm looking water which doesn't seem to get the message across.

Well the thing is, I don't want to make it look like there's a fierce storm there, it's in the distance looming, where her husband is fishing. So where she's at is still a bit calmer but there's still some waves.

I think BJ painted it like that, because to make the lighthouse make more sense int he perspective in how my original "plan" and layout was, but I can't say for sure.

 

Most of this I guess, will make a fair bit more sense when I get more done I think, nothing is done yet, everything is at a "sketch" level as far as I'm concerned. I wanted her to be in the water, close to the water as it symbolizes (I think) that she longs for something out at sea, that she wants to "feel" the sea in hope to get a better understanding what happens with her husband. That's the general idea at least.

But thank you so much for the comment!

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TheNorwegianKid
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Yeah, I pretty much just stuck her on a cliff to make it easier to shorten her but keep her head near that top left third, and it helped keep us at the same level as she is rather than looking up at her. There wasn't really any major plan on my part (I didn't even check any perspective properly so it could well be wrong still). I was aware that you had intended for the storm to be off in the distance though, so I didn't put her up there for any big wave reasons.

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Hmmm, I see. I was having trouble imagining such a big difference in weather conditions over that short a distance for one thing.

"For observers on the ground with eye-level at h = 5 ft 7 in (5.583 ft), the horizon is at a distance of 2.89 miles.
For observers standing on a hill or tower 100 ft in height, the horizon is at a distance of 12.25 miles." wiki

I supose if the storm detail is all going to be in the sky it'll be okay.