[Snakebyte]

Felt like doing some environmental landscape stuff here recently. This was based on my blackwinged sorceress pic �minus the blackwinged sorceress part.. That pic can be found here http://www.fantasy-anime.org/fantasy/Black.jpg
Anyhow, Iv been dick�en around with stars and planets, and this is the result.


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[Tinusch]

I think this is the first non-fantasy image I've seen from you... Looks good. I think it has a really strong mood and a great sense of depth. The only things that really bother me are the rocks, which all look a little muddy and splotchy. Which may be the adjectives you'd use to describe such rocks, but as they are I think they look very unfinished. I really like this image, though. I think you could do some more with the lighting towards the back, to give it some more levels of depth and to create a focal point, because my eye is kind of wandering around the image aimlessly. It looks like you have two sections there, a foreground and a middle-ish ground further back behind the row of bushes? I think you could use that strong sky lighting to separate the two a little more.

[Snakebyte]

Hey, Thanks


I didn�t do a whole lot but I added the skeleton in the foreground for a focal point (I hope) and added highlights in the trees in the background, the rocks are relatively unchanged so far, although I did run a smudge brush over it.
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[Jonathan Wahlstedt]

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[fukifino]

I think what would really help is a slightly altered lighting scheme. You're main light source in this seems to be the night sky behind...and while the landscape looks moonlit, your "moon" in this case is that planet, and that planet would be giving off a bluer light.

While you did add a point of focus as Tinusch suggested, you didn't actually focus on it. It's lost in the darkness and everything is overshadowed by the background which is both the only source of color (besides its reflection) and one of the brightest areas in the picture. Allowing the background and the reflection to bring more light and color to the skeleton and the armor (and perhaps the rock and area around him) would help to draw the viewer to that area and provide a clear focal point (or counter focal point to the planet itself).

Still dig the style.

[Snakebyte]

I think I see what you are talking about...
these are some quick repaints (not finals)


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