Finished work - 2D

Re: Forbidden Planet

chris_scruff — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 04:10:02 GMT

hey - im writing here after reading your post about colouring greyscale.. so im gonna comment on that..

i think the colouring looks a bit odd because you have a very saturated and intense red covering vast areas of landscape - yet there is no sign of that same colour in the other half of the picture. to sell the image as a whole it needs to feel more intergrated... ambient reds in the sky and landscape in the right half of the image and desaturated greys and purples in the left half..

after using colour overlays etc, i think its important to paint with these colours ontop of your painting.. touching it up. refining detail and correcting highlighst and shadows.

im bothered by the composition too - but cant quite put my finger on it.. its as if my eye doesnt know where to settle (although at 5am im struggling to explain this with any proper meaning! ) but i imagine if the colour was more consistent, this would help pull the entire piece together.

Re: Forbidden Planet

Geir — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 09:09:20 GMT

Nice dark surrealism. I like it. Nitpicking: I do however miss some more crisp shapes. But that's mostly a matter of taste in a painting like this. It is hounting though.

Re: Forbidden Planet

fabledgoat — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 02:52:41 GMT

I like it and I like how the city in the background resembles a floating whale. I do agree with Em though that the focus needs to be highlighted and the apple right now is hard to see cause it fades into the background.

Re: Forbidden Planet

Knuckles11 — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 16:18:38 GMT

Thanks mate I coloured the apple by memory (I dont have a great memory hence the lack of highlights on the apple) I will use some reference if I ever got back to finalising things on the painting.

Re: Forbidden Planet

em... — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 16:13:21 GMT

I like it - it kind of reminds me of the work of Richard M Powers.

I do think it could do with a couple of sharper highlights about the edge of the face and apple, just to bring the focus there.

Forbidden Planet

Knuckles11 — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 16:08:14 GMT

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This started off as a basic pencil sketch then I scanned it into Photoshop and painted in the details