Frell: yupp only a siluette. Color overlay works great when you have a white background and just need a quick concept. For bigger paintings I usually start with color.

Allen416: Sorry man cant see your pictures or whatever they are.

I really like the colors in this one and the gun looks cool aswell

Thanks m8 ^^

I really like that you're going for a more extreme perspective than you usually do, great job I do think it would be nice with some space between the gun's nozzle and the border of the painting, to me it feels a bit 'cramped' right now.

I'm a bit unsure where you want the focal point to be, the gun or his face? You have a nice little lightsource that draws my eye, but it competes with the gun for my attention.

I was also thinking that maybe seeing a bit of his ( very foreshortened ) arm would add a greater sense of depth to your painting and also help his gaze travel along his arm, so to speak.


Keep 'em coming!

Thanks Malin, yeah I agree with your points

Its just a quick speedpaint, gonna do a bigger one in a differnet angle with more colors and blur :P

workflow: http://www.polycount.com/forum/showp...&postcount=975

the dragon is really good! i like it a lot!

some crits though; you should strive for more contrast in your paintings. both in terms of levels, dark/light, and more staurated. all your stuff have a greyish, meesy feel to them, wich undermines your strong siluettes. try also to have more wider range of levels, the guy with the gun for example has way to much black when at the same time, the last one has way to little (or none). just try to use the photoshop level-layer and pull it around to see what happens.
otherwise good work!

Thanks man! Heard something similar from another guy and I agree, I guess I just love painting foggy stuff, trying to learn more about values and depth. Il try to get some more contrast in my future paintings

Just a reminder, sketches and doodles are mostly posted here:

http://www.polycount.com/forum/showt...=93561&page=40