Art for Critique

[mewtant-307k]

Trying to get more serious about art so I'm looking for a solid critique.

I need help with the anatomy (which i was trying to exaggerate, but it came out mostly weird), posing, lighting (inconsistencies abound), color, technique...just about everything. A paintover would make me ecstatic!



Thanks all!

[Lane.]

You'll solve most of the issues if you can find and clearly distinguish your light sources.

Right now, it looks like you have a dominate light coming directly from the viewer's direction. This eliminates cast shadows, and really flattens out the forms.

As far as composition, perhaps it would be better if the creature's head was facing back into the scene and looking at the woman.

It's not very clear what the woman is holding, and that had could use a lot of attention.

[mewtant-307k]

Thanks for the feedback, I'll start fixing it up! Do you think adding a second light-source from above would fill it out a bit, or should I just adjust the one I have (the dead on one) so its maybe higher and to the right? Thats what I was going for at first but I think I got confused somewhere along the line.

[Lane.]

A top-down light could be interesting with this composition. Really anything but the dead-on lighting. It just depends on what enhances the feeling you are going for. Consider where they are, how would the environment be lit?

Often it helps to have secondary "kick light" that may be a different color and shines from a different angle. That helps to show details that would otherwise be lost in shadow. The main thing is to keep it simple and to be very consistent.

You have some nice value and colors shifts in this painting, it's just the lighting is a bit wishy-washy. Be bold! http://conceptart.org/forums/attachm...4&d=1309368829

[lkinnebrand]

Firstly, it's a very pretty picture, and the creature's design is really nice! As for critique, I think the nose is rather big and round at the end, and it looks a bit long to me. The hair looks very flat on the left side of her head (our right), and the breasts seems to be too far up, along with the torso + hip being too short. The knee is also looking very flat, as somebody ran it over. And the arm to the right (her left) looks off. I would have loved to give you a paintover, but my anatomy skills are probably below yours anyway, so that wouldn't really help.

And as Lane. said, it might be better to make the creature face towards the viewer or the woman, because right now my gaze follows it's head right out of the frame.

Also, is she sitting on the creature's tail? I can't make out if she's sitting behind it (in which case too much of the leg is showing) or on it (in which case more shadow would be needed).

Looking forward to see the update! (: