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In my opinion the edit seems to make the colours seem kind of ugly.

 

The first one kinda downgraded the quality by smothering the picture with random patterns and colours.

 

The second edited picture transformed the colour into a dodgy mess which doesn't appeal to the eye much.

 

But that is just my opinion.

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In my opinion the edit seems to make the colours seem kind of ugly.
 
The first one kinda downgraded the quality by smothering the picture with random patterns and colours.
 
The second edited picture transformed the colour into a dodgy mess which doesn't appeal to the eye much.
 
But that is just my opinion.

how's this?
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and this:

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It's a bit of an odd one, I'd say. Of course, first and foremost, be careful with permissions and artist credits. Hopefully, I assume these aren't bound by commercial permissions and stuff, but even that second image could do with a credit. A two minute search gives the artist as Chenbo.

The problem of doing editing like this is that you completely change up any lighting that exists in the pieces beforehand, and often unsuccessfully, and lighting can't merely come from putting on soft splodges in various layer modes over the top: best done by painting light and dark directly on in tones. In that regard, both edits to the second edit are a bit OTT. First is messy, and the second overexposed.

The second edit of the first image is a bit more acceptable, as it was originally more of a referential, concept sort of piece rather than a full LP. Even so, I don't think the effects over the top add huge amounts.

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Most of these seem to be just texture spam over the image set to colour dodge, but maybe that's just me.

 

The first edit of the first image is alright, just a mass spam of textures and colour with no clear goal on making the image better or having a certain focus.

The second edit of the first image is a lot better than the rest, gives the image an interesting atmosphere and doesn't take away from the original image with mass spam, makes the original image look better.

The first edit of the second image is really weird. The colours have no point and the lighting that you've given just seems to be random and nonsensical.

The second edit of the second image is, while better than the first edit of it, still pretty bad. The lighting is way too strong, and makes half of her head completely white. Be careful not to overdo any lighting or colour changes, as that seems to be your biggest problem here.

Start off with smaller image edits, and just try to give them a better atmosphere, like you did with the second edit of the first image. Once you've improved on that, try to tackle bigger images and then try to add your own colours and other stuff into them.

 

tl;dr

too much put into them, tone it down until you can properly work with it. use second edit of first image for reference

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