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Species Western Dragon
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Category Artwork (Digital) / Fat Furs
Species Western Dragon
Size 900 x 592px
File Size 312.6 kB
Wow, those colours are really blown out there. I checked the levels, and you got pure RGB green straight down the line, and RGB Blue/Green straight down, too. Have you tried mixing colours a bit more naturally? Following the path of light rather than mechanical tone? It might make the image a little more evocative if you tried it - light works on colour temperature rather than Lightness, remember :) Something people forget is that dodge and burn are mechanical processes for sorting out poorly exposed black and white photographs, not painting, and try to use that for shading, but forget that light doesn't work like that in colour - so emulating it is a bad idea.
Really choose your colours wisely, make sure there's enough contrast to make something stand out - I'd like to see some nice colour choices and subtle lighting. Try to stay within 15-240, levels wise (That is the NTSC dynamic range maximum, I believe - not because you want to air it on a broadcast, but because any level outside that is usually really overpowering. Never use pure black or pure white in painting, remember?). Most of all, I'd like to see you push yourself with background and composition. I want to see a character really being in a set, rather than on a matte. It's fun :)
You have a heck of a lot of potential, and quite the following, but don't slip into complacency. You need to keep improving. Every picture needs to teach you something more. If you need any advice, I recommend acquiring the Gnomon Workshop video about light and colour. It's pretty informative, even people at Pixar use it. You could ask me, I guess, but I'm a mere student.
Keep at it!
Really choose your colours wisely, make sure there's enough contrast to make something stand out - I'd like to see some nice colour choices and subtle lighting. Try to stay within 15-240, levels wise (That is the NTSC dynamic range maximum, I believe - not because you want to air it on a broadcast, but because any level outside that is usually really overpowering. Never use pure black or pure white in painting, remember?). Most of all, I'd like to see you push yourself with background and composition. I want to see a character really being in a set, rather than on a matte. It's fun :)
You have a heck of a lot of potential, and quite the following, but don't slip into complacency. You need to keep improving. Every picture needs to teach you something more. If you need any advice, I recommend acquiring the Gnomon Workshop video about light and colour. It's pretty informative, even people at Pixar use it. You could ask me, I guess, but I'm a mere student.
Keep at it!
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