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 Duckie || Songbird Shelties || -college-ing- March 2nd, 2013 11:55:32pm 815 Posts |
Looking to get some critiques on Solstice and Creek Child please :)
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lachlan fuhsaz. belgian malinois March 18th, 2013 5:07:42am 27 Posts |
16 days after you posted this and I should really be doing work, but here you go. :)I'm really sorry if this seems harsh, I don't mean it to be like that, I promise.Solstice: - First of all, the positioning is really good. However, I'm not sure about the stock choice; the lighting of the horse is quite different to the lighting in the background, which is coming from the right of the image. If the lighting from the horse was coming from the same way then its face would lighter than it is. - Secondly, the horse needs a shadow, albeit a soft one because the lighting isn't that harsh. - The mane and tail are good, but they could do with more movement, they look very solid and block-y and they would look good with some loose pieces. Also, some strands are quite abrupt. It might be work a look on dA for some tutorials for drawing manes and tails with a mouse if you don't use a tablet - I read the comments. - Your cutting is very good. Some parts, though, like the back could be done a little more finely. You can desaturate the image after you've cut the horse out if it helps to see if there's any more bits that need cutting out, or putting the horse layer on a red or white backdrop before blending it into the chosen background. - Lastly, beaches and sand are a really tricky surface to work with, for example the horse just looks like it's been dropped in the picture, there's no sign of it moving into the position it's in evident on the sand. Because of the type of surface it is, there'd be hoof marks as well as pieces of sand getting chucked ripped up by the horses hooves. There's some really good tutorials on dA that show you how to draw them. Creek Child:The colours on this are really beautiful and the stock work well together. I think the horse might be a bit big compared to the background though but it doesn't take anything away from the image as a whole. Just a few things on this one, though. - The mane and forelock are quite flat; they need some highlights and lowlights to make it more realistic. - The horse needs a reflection, not just little parts of leg that you can see under the water. If you look at the rest of the water, the reflections are really visible and it should be that way for the horse. - You need to be very careful and use a very small brush when you're trying to erase around pieces of grass or branches etc. like you have on the back leg. If it's not possible to draw them again instead of erase them, zoom in a lot and lower the opacity of the horse layer to see where you have to erase. - Where you've erased parts of the lower leg to blend it into the water, it looks like you've used a soft round brush, which is a bad thing to do because it looks like the horse is evaporating, you should always use a hard brush to erase the parts that are under water. - It's good that you remembered water lines, but when the horse or the water isn't moving like in this picture, they're not really necessary. - There's one last thing which can make even the best picture look really bad, and it's something that people forget to check, too. The underside of the horse is green, presumably because the horse was originally on a green setting where the colour would reflect onto the horse. But always check and desaturate it when it's there and has no cause to be there. If anything, that part should be slightly blue due to the colouring of the water it's stood in.I hope any of that actually helps. :] |
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