CMRenji Posted January 15, 2013 Report Share Posted January 15, 2013 Just a quick break from C4Ds, and practicing some lighting and smudgeness. [img]http://i.imgur.com/FXpsM.png[/img] Any help is appreciated. :3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catman25 Posted January 15, 2013 Report Share Posted January 15, 2013 Main thing here is flow. you have the smudging branching off into two different directions. Imo, contrast in colors is also a bit too harsh, as in you go from dark blue to light green and no really in between complementary colors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.Rai Posted January 15, 2013 Report Share Posted January 15, 2013 It feels incredibly flat. I attribute it a few things: an overactive background, lacking of lighting, and harshness and emptiness of atmosphere. We have fairly violet hue on the render, but only signs of it from the lighter spot of smudging behind the head. It probably shouldn't be light there anyway, because it suggests it's lit there (and therefore you should have the face backlit). Same with the light green smudging. It feels incredibly flat because it couldn't possibly exist at the same depth as the darker smudging, which kinda erupts out in a discordant explosion (you either want outwards flow from the render, diagonal flow with the render). It's funny, because I would have thought that a C4D would be good reference and practice for flow. The smudging technique however is quite interesting, and looks like it can improve well. The colour scheme is fine outisde of the violets and blue-greens, but the saturation and difference in tone is distracting. You want to level it out to much darker, and less colourful colours. If I could, I'd shift the colours of the writing on the shirt to a red or blue tone, and replace greens with purples and reds. More harmonious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CMRenji Posted January 16, 2013 Author Report Share Posted January 16, 2013 [quote name='+Catman' timestamp='1358287619' post='6122008'] Main thing here is flow. you have the smudging branching off into two different directions. Imo, contrast in colors is also a bit too harsh, as in you go from dark blue to light green and no really in between complementary colors. [/quote] I do kinda notice that now. I originally meant to blend the render in a bit with that shoulder smudging, but yea, I see how I messed up there. [quote name='.Rai' timestamp='1358292893' post='6122107'] It feels incredibly flat. I attribute it a few things: an overactive background, lacking of lighting, and harshness and emptiness of atmosphere. We have fairly violet hue on the render, but only signs of it from the lighter spot of smudging behind the head. It probably shouldn't be light there anyway, because it suggests it's lit there (and therefore you should have the face backlit). Same with the light green smudging. It feels incredibly flat because it couldn't possibly exist at the same depth as the darker smudging, which kinda erupts out in a discordant explosion (you either want outwards flow from the render, diagonal flow with the render). It's funny, because I would have thought that a C4D would be good reference and practice for flow. The smudging technique however is quite interesting, and looks like it can improve well. The colour scheme is fine outisde of the violets and blue-greens, but the saturation and difference in tone is distracting. You want to level it out to much darker, and less colourful colours. If I could, I'd shift the colours of the writing on the shirt to a red or blue tone, and replace greens with purples and reds. More harmonious. [/quote] Ooo, I see what you mean by the light green. It does look odd. And Imma use C4Ds from now on. But actually, should I find a C4D before I start on the background and use it to help with flow or just continue what I'm doin' and find it later on? =o And imagining the blues and reds, it looks a lot better. And thanks a lot guys. :3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catman25 Posted January 17, 2013 Report Share Posted January 17, 2013 [quote name='Renji' timestamp='1358304426' post='6122292'] And Imma use C4Ds from now on. But actually, should I find a C4D before I start on the background and use it to help with flow or just continue what I'm doin' and find it later on? =o [/quote] You could do either. Sometimes I find a c4d I like and have the rest of the tag sort of complement it. A majority of the time though I think c4d's are complementary, using them to add to the tag. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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