A weird dead and a grown up Mowgli UPDATED2

[maxetormer]

this are the two thisng i am working on latetly the 1st one it an interpretation of the dead, simblising duality, the face it is divided in two colors, the back legs are diferent and more masive than the front ones, he can walk over water even he is very heavy =)

he is black and white =)
I will add digital color to the image bw =)

http://mywebpage.netscape.com/maxetormer/smalld.jpg

the other one it is to probe my self, that i could draw a feline only by studing their anathomy a long time, so i tried and tried a whole afernnon of sckeching and then i color ir it when i fell it was right, I want to detail the color way more, but i dont know if would be a good idea to add a backgorund or just leave the panther like it is now, with an abstract texture background =)

Any sugesstions?

http://mywebpage.netscape.com/maxetormer/smallM.jpg

[daniela]

Both pieces are very cool. I can't wait to see the first in color. As to the second pic, if you were going to add something to the background, I would keep the details very fuzzy so the focus remains on Mowgli and the panther.

[William b. Hand]

Cool images! I really like the first one... the only thing about it that bothers me is the right (our right) front leg. I think the problem arose because you tried to make an arm bend like a leg. If you look at your own arms when on all fours, you will see this error.

You've got a lot of very good textures in this piece, very interesting composition, great clouds... Be careful with the direction of the chain's reflection - it looks like you might have it pointing the wrong way, but it's hard to tell if that's what you were doing. Whatever it is, you might wanna clean that up in Photoshop (or whatever).
Very nice trees/roots! I like the hip gem - good idea.

The piece with the panther is good, too, but I'll leave that to someone with more colour/painting experience than me:) . I do like the entwined positioning of his leg with that of the panther!

Although I think that first pic stands strong as b&w, I'll be interested to see how you colour it.

[maxetormer]

The fists one it is a concept idea for my teacher to see so it is not final at all, thank so much for the feedback =)

daniela:
i will take your adive on the Mowgli one for sure thanks so much for the feedback =)

William b. Hand:
COOL photo manips you make 0-0 :D

I see wha you mean (the front legs mm yeah i think i can smoth out the flow of the movments of the front legs, i have been waching my arm and yeah i could be improved i inteded as you said for the front arms-legs to bend like legs but i belive that it add to the variety of the creature if the arms bended diferently from the back legs I will change that,)

the chain... yes it was kinda of a mees up but i could not fix that cause it is natural media so yeah that will be imporved as well.

i mm glad tha u tooked that long time to analize my image i really learned some very usefull things whit your critics.

[maxetormer]

another hour of work =)

next step more clean up, still long way to go ill prolly will add a background
but i will look up some jungle photos to make things acurratly =)

utill next update :D

http://mywebpage.netscape.com/maxetormer/clean1.jpg

[maxetormer]

updated, i changed proportions of both caracters so that the
weight of Mowgli could be lifted by Baggera =)

Rought sckech of the backgorund commets and opinions are very wellcome :D

http://mywebpage.netscape.com/maxetormer/net1.jpg

[William b. Hand]

I think you should tone down that jewel... maybe make it sketchier and change its colour, as well. It just seems out of place and distracts from the rest of the image.

Otherwise, it's pretty cool! The ratio of their sizes is much better, his muscles have improved, and it's good to see them in an environment!

The panthers paws are turned inward, which makes me think it's about to attack some other creature. In which case, you could enlarge the canvas and include the giant serpent or whatever. If not, then I think the paws would be directed more to recieve the ground.

Opening up the right side of the painting a bit might help anyway, since we want to see where they're headed but are blocked by the edge.

Maybe for the next pic? ;)

Nice work, Maxetormer!

:chug:

[Johannes]

Very nice progress there with "Mowgli". I agree about the jewel, it is a bit to clear and focused.
The other one seems very interessting and scary. I´m looking forward to seeing more. :D

[maxetormer]

The link to the finished pice for whom is interested on seen it =)

JUMP into the DARKNESS (http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=11200)