[Highfive]

This picture took two months to paint, on and off.
I'm exploring the use of different coloured light-sources again and this time I'm trying to get a nice balance of warm and cool lighting. I've used a reference photo for the characters and attempted to get some rich looking textures as well.



Please hack into this picture because I want to make it look as impressive as possible, however long it takes.

[Robert Ashley]

The picture loosk great!

Here are the things that you need to work on....

The head that the man is holding looks like a cartoon compaired to the rest of the image. Its proportions are way off, say compaired to the man holding it. It almost looks like a complelely person made it.

The tree needs to have more of the warm light shining on it...everything has the red highlights, but the tree doesnt.

The fire needs work....as well as the grass,

Other than that, very impressive image....looks great!

I would like to see some more work from you!

[stan522]

looks great except for the decapitated head
which doenst look too real it looks like it was stretched or something

[Shiro_tengu]

Highfive - looks great. It must be one of your ansestors - it looks just like you!!

[Radiater]

Hey Jonathan,

There's some really good stuff in there. I think my favourite part is how you've rendered the mask. Only real crit I have is that I think with the torch where it is, the guy with the mask would cast a stonger shadow higher up the tree.

[Highfive]

Robert Ashley - Yeah the head looks way different from the other two characters, since I drew it from imagination rather than from reference. I think I will find some gaunt film star's head as use that for a guide instead. The shape of the head ATM is pretty wrong.
Got you on the tree. It's meant to be all greay but I guess the red hilite must look like brown bark. I'll spread that hilite out a lot more then.
The fire definitely needs work because I'm having a lot of trouble figuring it out. It's so hard to get the flow of the flames right. Can anyone offer tips on how to do that?
Thanks for all those pointers, Robert! I'll have to try and get a website together one day so you can see my folio.

stan522 - stretched it definitely is, that head. Yep, it's totally wrong. Thanks for the input!

Shiro_tengu - well, actually....


Radiater - You like the mask? Cheers, I just gave it much stronger and sharper hilites than the clothing, plus a few nick and dents. The design of the mash wasn't quite my idea, though, as you can see above !
I was afraid someone would notice that lack of shadow, too. I figured the pale green light would fade it out, but toadstools wouldn't really emit light that strong, would they? Thanks for pointing that out.


I had a problem saving this to JPEG by the way. The JPEG version always came out darker than the photoshop document, even at maximum quality. Is there another option for saving JPEGs in photoshop to fix this?