First post - environment concepts

[paulturalski]

hi all! Here Im posting my works - these are just environment concepts and i know there is still a lot to improve my technique but never hurts to get profesional feedback from you, so i I hope ull give me some useful advs. :) Thanks for chcekcing!

[FIG]

I love how first time posters blow me away skillwise. These are amazing.

[alti]

beautiful work, that field of wheat with the walkers is my favorite, is the sky photo refed ?

-alti

[nickmarshallvfx]

My favourite is the tree village. The walkway dropping almost straight down is fantastic! Its not something I think i would have considered, but it works amazingly well in your painting! Really sells the height and makes you feel as though you are in a precarious position!
Anyone with Vertigo had better hold on when they view that though! :)

Nick

[paulturalski]

thank you! First two pics use some strongly edited photos (like sky) but the rest is painted (like factorys, robots etc). I know that technique is a bit odd but Im still trying to settle my skill, workflow...

[wingman52]

Wow that wheat field must have took for ever to do because of the crazy detail. How much time did you spend working on the wheat field picture from start to finish?

[paulturalski]

Yeah, it took a while but just because i was trying to find out a technique. experimenting and thats all. if i remeber well mostly done on color channels and burn tool etc :) nothing special anyway :)

[jamesthorn]

wow, love the bottom one!

[Justin.]

These are really unique. If I could make a suggestion, you go very quickly to whites and blacks. Using a really saturated, but still very dark color will add alot of interest to your shadows- also, keeping alot of the image above pure black and below pure white can make the values more intense when you do use true black and white. I've noticed more and more, alot of the great paintings on this site are very "middle gray", on a scale of 1-10 the values never go under past 2 or past 8 unless it is for something that is true black or true white. I think Saturation and temperature contrast has alot to do with making some colors read brighter than others of the same value.

Keep posting, these were fun to look at! The first has a really powerful "something is going wrong" mood to it.

[Nokill]

great works love the details and fine lines on them
and the coloring on the grain can't wait for more :)

[paulturalski]

Thank u all for C&C!
Justin Oaksford > wow men thats really valuable critique! I appreciate that very much! Thank u all once again!

[young paddy1]

This may sound a little cruel but there is no way you painted the grain in that field or the sky above it, at least make that clear, rather than just saying you used a lot of channels and the burn tool, there are far too many artifacts throught your works to even attempt hiding the use of photos.

Don't try to misslead people when they ask you questions about your technique, nobody will be bothered if you used photos in your work as long as you give credit where it is due.

Matte paintings use vast quantities of photographs to achieve realism, and with some moderate clean up the images in this thread could be exceptional.

edit: I'm not judging you just didn't give a full answer IMO.

[paulturalski]

"there is no way you painted the grain in that field or the sky above it" - yes ure right but i didnt say that at all!

"Don't try to misslead people when they ask you questions about your technique" - No comments man... I`m lost for words... I didn`t misslead anybody and if somebody will ask how i did it (i mean is really intrested) i can send a tutorial straight to his email personaly. So, please think before u judge somebody.

thnx for coments anyway!

[D@niel]

Great matte painting man!! love the mood and colours!
PS: I dont think you were being missleading, i think that it is quite obvious that your techneque is a synthesis of photos and digi painting.