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This is basically my first digital "painting". I also have little experience with traditional painting. It was done entirely in Photoshop CS2 save for the line drawing. All critique is welcome, technical and otherwise. If you have a favorite resource, be it a website, book, artist, anything that has helped you mature as a digital painter/artist with tips, tricks, or tutorials, free or for sale, please let me know. I hunger to learn more. One thing I am especially interested in is learning to customize/create brushes.
Concept:
On the surface level, it is an illustration of a dream. A child sets sail for the high seas and encounters a giant foe. The confrontation is heroic, daunting, and exhilarating.
On a little deeper level, it is about the conflict between youth and adulthood. Our youthful idealism, dreams, and perceptions versus the many armed beast that is reality and the future. Relationships, careers, education, peers, society, doubt, struggle, and pessimism by nature and by force change the qualities of youth as we grow. Many of these changes are beautiful and can better us as individuals. However, they can also make us lose sight of, undermine, and weaken the things we hold dear. There is more, but I will leave the rest up to you.
You can find detail images here: [link]
The Wallpaper version is here: [link]
Concept:
On the surface level, it is an illustration of a dream. A child sets sail for the high seas and encounters a giant foe. The confrontation is heroic, daunting, and exhilarating.
On a little deeper level, it is about the conflict between youth and adulthood. Our youthful idealism, dreams, and perceptions versus the many armed beast that is reality and the future. Relationships, careers, education, peers, society, doubt, struggle, and pessimism by nature and by force change the qualities of youth as we grow. Many of these changes are beautiful and can better us as individuals. However, they can also make us lose sight of, undermine, and weaken the things we hold dear. There is more, but I will leave the rest up to you.
You can find detail images here: [link]
The Wallpaper version is here: [link]
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769x466px 314.39 KB
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I commented on the detailed view of this one so I figured I'd comment on here. Without repeating myself I'll just give you some crits.
I still really like it, it's a really good use of the colors and the rendering is really nice too. I know you said you had little experience painting so I'm not sure if you plan out the painting before hand. You should consider the angles, composition, light and dark balances, all that stuff before you start.
Sometimes I'll take an initial idea, say a pirate, and then think of a good dramatic scene to put him in. Then I'll take the image I ave in my head and move the camera to a more interesting angle like an upshot maybe.
Then I'll place the figure on the page, but a good rule of them is to never put the focus (figure in this case) in the center. It just makes the image less dynamic. I garuntee that if you place the main focus off to the side or int a corner or something like that you will be ten times happier with the end result.
I suppose my main suggestion is just to consider all the set up before hand next time. It will really give your stuff the boost you want.
I still really like it, it's a really good use of the colors and the rendering is really nice too. I know you said you had little experience painting so I'm not sure if you plan out the painting before hand. You should consider the angles, composition, light and dark balances, all that stuff before you start.
Sometimes I'll take an initial idea, say a pirate, and then think of a good dramatic scene to put him in. Then I'll take the image I ave in my head and move the camera to a more interesting angle like an upshot maybe.
Then I'll place the figure on the page, but a good rule of them is to never put the focus (figure in this case) in the center. It just makes the image less dynamic. I garuntee that if you place the main focus off to the side or int a corner or something like that you will be ten times happier with the end result.
I suppose my main suggestion is just to consider all the set up before hand next time. It will really give your stuff the boost you want.