/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>4623699
Loomis & hard round

>>4623699
perspective/composition mastery
no boring straight lines, everything is meandering in a circular pattern
dual lighting from moon and fire
blow out your colors so hard that it burns your retinas

>>4623699
Study them, and the people that influenced them. I recall one of them saying they were both heavily influenced by Howard Pyle.

>>4623699
there is something off putting about this, i dont like it.

>>4623887
I think could be the bsckground, looks kitch and cheap compared to the foreground

>>4623923
1: stop using kitch you dumblr troglodyte
2: thats not kitch

>>4623887
The foreground is strongly divided from the background.

>>4623887
I know it is fantasy, but if he just settled the fuck down on his colors and brightness the image would read better

>>4623699

loomis & just draw

>>4624272
that looks horrible lmao, the original is better

>>4623887
the warm vs cool is a little much for me, it's a bit on the nose

>>4623882
Thanks for mentioning this influence, I love their work.

>>4623699
>Blue and orange
>Things that don't receive light are lit
Be a mediocre painter i guess

>>4624272
>the absolute state of /ic/
never give any criticism ever again

>>4624272

>>4623887

Lack of value separation. The blue background is nearly as bright as the characters' faces lit by the fire. Only the foreground bits unlit by the fire are actually in shadow.

Makes the background look like a painted backdrop in a stage play, rather than an actual landscape behind them.

The intensity of that blue light should be washing over the characters and foreground elements, but they seem completely isolated from it, barring that blue highlighting on their heads and a couple of other places.

>>4624272
It has a more dream-like quality with all the bright colors.

>>4623923
That's typical for book cover illustration, the book publishers wanted bright colors like that to stand out on the shelf. Michael Whelan had to satisfy that requirement too, at times. I don't know if this was used for a book or D&D manual, but fantasy art with blown out saturation like that was common in the 70's and 80's.

>>4624272
They, it was two brothers doing these.

>>4624456
>Michael Whelan

It's amazing how much better his work looks when he's painting for himself, vs. his commercial work. It's like he's two different artists.

>>4624384
>>4624272
Never post any advice ever again

>>4623887
For me it's how harshly he put complementary colors together, it's like the colors are fighting.

>>4625151

So you like stagey, fakey scenes with nonsensical lighting and cartoonish colors?

>>4624272
kill yourself

>>4625175
The "stagey" quality is by design. I think that it enhances the fairy tale feeling of the illustration. Not everything is improved by approaching it like a drab piece of concept art with cinematic lighting and composition.

>>4625175
>>4625151

>>4624456
I'm pretty sure the OP painting was for a calendar

>>4624272
>>4624384
Shit tier advice from niggers who don't know shit of what they are talking about, this here, gentleman, is the absolute state of /ic/, remember to only use this site to get freematerials, and ignore the rest.

>>4624384
>>4623887
>>4624272

back to beg and fucking lurk

>>4625697
>>4625804
>>4625198
>>4625151

Why don't you idiots take your own advice and piss off if you don't have anything useful to contribute?

>>4626514
>Forced opinion as fact
>"Amrite bros lol this guy fucking suckkkssss"
>Gets called out not by 1 but by 5 different people on the slowest board of 4chan
>It is not me!! Its them!!