Old Man on the Mountain

[Jason Rainville]

EDIT: I've pretty much given up on this already, just like I hoped I wouldn't have. Unless there is a great crit/paintover to be given that will somehow rouse me enough to continue, don't bother with this...
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Alright, I'm going to TRY to make this a project and see it through to the end. My patience is next to nil though, so it's entirely possible I'll puss out...

Anyways, concept roughed out. Basically an adventurer wanders too far up a mountain and finds a mysterious old man (Odin) standing on a mountain path. Wanted to make odin look somewhat ominous, with odd, large gear.

Crits on anything - composition, anatomy, idea, everything - greatly apreciated.

http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/4391/10f8788de1.jpg

[AmontilladoAg]

Adventurer's sword-arm needs help :[ I think his forearm is too long...
Odin's legs need to be longer..
Is Odin poised at the edge of a cliff? Might need to make it a little clearer..

And I'd suggest some murky-mist in the Odin-area 8)

Likin' the idea of this pic! :)

[drd]

I think the idea of where they are both standing will be explained with colouring easily, right now it's just a b/w rough sketch to determine it, but It will even up with progress, of course.

Nice job so far, hope you don't puss out, as you put it =P. I'm like that.

[Jason Rainville]

hehe thanks guys. Yeah amontillago, I'll fix that guys' arm in ps tonight, couldn't figure the perspective right but a simple size reduction should do. And odin... seems I'm still making legs too short. will be fixed :) As for mist I was thinking about making it raining and have some blowing rain mist but I don't know how well it would turn out. I'll try rainy-stuff on another layer just in case though.

drd not sure what you mean about colouring and position, but as long as you think it'll be alright :D

Also I just noticed that the path seems to screw with the perspective. I want the path to look like it's winding UP, but right now (at least to me) it looks like were looking at a 'level' path from above... I think I'll add some steps in there to help.

Oh, yeah, perspective/horizon line crits especially encouraged. Thanks again guys :D

[Jason Rainville]

Alright, made alterations and also added some rough value/cleaned up some lines. That's more or less the lighting I want to go for. I'm pretty sure I'm going to get some reference for lit-up clouds and some figure stuff for the forground character.

http://img181.imageshack.us/img181/4378/oldmanworkercopyle8.jpg

[Jason Rainville]

Colour time :D trying something new, doing a multiply layer and adding washes of value and colour. Still pretty basic for now. Not sure how saturated I want the colours to be, but for now they're pretty muted. I'll probably end up alternating between normal and multiplied layers. Also got a ref for the foreground guy (digicam ftw) This is fun again :teeth:

http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/8606/oldmanworker2zq5.jpg

[GentleFood3]

New projects are always fun at the beginning. The feeling rarely lasts for me.

The sword pointing to Odin could be done in a more subtle manner, perhaps by lowering the sword a bit. The perspective on the sword and hand don't match. Judging by his hand, the sword should point more forward and to the left, but that would run parallel to the path and look bad.
I'd like to be more helpful, but my current project is taking away my will to live.

[Jason Rainville]

Thanks gentlefood, heh, I read everything but forgot "would run along the path and would look bad... guess what I did :/

Oh well. Wroked on it a little bit more.

http://img523.imageshack.us/img523/5738/oldmanworker2copyar3.jpg

[AmontilladoAg]

Just a quick note -- the guy in the foreground has no neck, and he's awfully barrel-chested :[... but his sword arm's improved tremendously :)

[Sean McClain]

http://www.silverlotusdragon.comI think a really stronge streak of white lightning down the left side of the image might help the symetry of the peice and then even have the light from it reflecting on odins back to give him some more mysticalness, and I am a bit bothered by his long helmet it matches the sword...but if you like it I do to.http://www.myspace.com/silverlotusdragon