Digital painting crit
3yr
Matthew Rawles
I did a quick portrait study and I wanted some critiques on how the shading looks. Im trying to keep it from getting muddy. I tried to stick with hard brushes. I want to know if headed in the right direction before i take it further. Any feedback is appreciated. Thanks
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Hi all, good to meet you. I have attached a few examples of my work in both environmental and character design and would appreciate some feedback and advice on how to improve to the point of possibly presenting at interview for a concept artist/illustrator position or compiling work together for my portfolio. I would also appreciate any kndustry related advice and pointers toward relevant courses on proko which would be best suited to my practice,
Many thanks in advance,
David
Hey David, I'm just starting my digital journey and your work is so much better than anything I can do right now. Great job! Did you take any particular courses? If so which ones have helped you the most? Thank you for posting!
Hey David,
Nice to see your work. Looking at what you have here, a couple of things jump out at me.
First of all, you're painting with too much black, this makes all your stuff look kind of dead. You need to color shift more in your shadows, this will give more interest and be more appealing. If your going to have your light side be warm, then color shift your shadows to blues and purples, and vise versa.
The other thing you seemed to be struggling with is perspective. This will be crucial in concept art, so you should really work extra hard on it.
Lastly, your figures are a little stiff and lack anatomy and proportion, another thing that you will need to be well versed in to do concept art.
I added a couple of quick sketches to show you what I'm talking about. I suggest you look at what pro concept artists are doing and shoot for that level of skill. I hope this helps :)
Hi @Matthew Rawles, I think what you may be struggling with at the moment is your separation of values. Right now, your values for your lights and your values for your darks are very close together, pretty much right next to each other on the gray scale. Because of this, you are losing the believability of light on your image. I think it may be a good idea to try to nail down the values of your image in grey scale first before heading into color. Since you're working digitally, there are quite a few tools to help you nail down those colors after you establish your portrait in greyscale.
Hope this helps! Let me know if there is anything that I can clear up for you
