Tree House

**Iancjw** · June 12th, 2012, 06:03 PM

Painted from a doodle I did in my sketchbook. Any critique or comments are appreciated!

I compiled my process/WIP on my blog if anyone is interested

http://ianchiew.blogspot.com/2012/06/tree-house.html

Thanks!

**Obstfelder** · June 13th, 2012, 04:26 AM

Nice enviroment. It has a nice atmosphere to it.

You have a very strong focus point on the striped bay window thingy because of the high contrast. I don't know if it's intentional but I would think you'd want the focus to be more on the tree (considering the title). So maybe putting some more contrasts on the tree would be a good idea.

It also looks to me as if the mound on the roof is rising very steeply from the edge and that the tree is in danger of falling off towards us. I would suggest placing it further back towards the center of the building and making the grass hill slant more towards the trunk. To do this you would have to show less of the grass of course. I did a quick paintover to illustrate.

Otherwise i love the strong perspective and painterly textures. Great work!

**Iancjw** · June 13th, 2012, 01:38 PM

Thanks for the feedback, your paint over looks a lot better! Yeah the roof was giving me a hard time...

**Lightship69** · June 13th, 2012, 05:22 PM

Hi matey

The perspective on the lower rope bridge seems wrong, we have a sharp upward perspective on the house and yet the rope bridge upper surface is pointing at us and we shouldn't be able to see it.
It might be good to take a bit more green into the trees too as the grass is so vivid and bright green.

just some thoughts matey, all the best with it.