Beach backdrop for..... a floating city in the sky?

[lasupaman]

Hah! beats me... http://www.jacklovesyou.com/thesis/beach01.jpg

well, its done for what it is... a sunset beach. I dunno what to put in the background... like a floating city? too cliche, i think. i dunno, any suggestions? should i add more rocks?

crap... the more i look at this POS, the less i like it.

*shoots himself in the head

[mrkon]

wow that's erotic. makes me want to run naked on the beach. great job!

[R_M]

niiice lasupaman,

You could try top bring the saturation down a bit and keep it high only where it really counts.
and the lense flare is a bit to overdone.

The overll feel of the pic is very dreamy, cool...

[mtomczek]

the painting would be alright without that lensflare man.

[lasupaman]

http://www.jacklovesyou.com/thesis/beach02.jpg

haha yeah the lens flare is overdone. I just thought it was kinda funny :D

anyways... i brought the saturation down a bit. I dunno... you think that rock on the bottom left looks a little outta place? i think it does. still needa figure out what to put in the bg (some sort of city)

[Joeslucher]

I think you made it a lot better by removing the lensflare. Now that it's gone the rock on the left does seem odd. My attention goes to that rock now that the flare is gone. With the lensflare it seemed like it belonged there. I think it's making the layout of the rocks symmetrical and thats what bothers me. I think if you hit somewhere else in the picture with some highlights it might pull us away from it. I'm probably not the one to be talking though. It looks good.

[Skank]

i think if you add a brighter light where you had the lens flare, it would add a bit more mood to this piece, as it is right now, it looks like a missed sunset.

everything is very well done on thos tho, and i think that "rock" could be turned into something, maybe buried technology or something, some long lost atifact..who knows:nana

[poly_cube]

oddly enough I kinda miss that lens flare haha

it reminds me of an old book mark I used to have. pretty awesome.

[djfournr]

awesome.. and yes its good the lens flare is gone. the one thing I think might help the piece is adding some particles in the breakers. as it is there is a big splash and some solid looking billowy stuff at the bottom. if it wasn't so obviously a beach and waves scene that might not seem realistic.

just an idea.

[Yaseck]

Without a lansflare is much better, but there is something missing there.. I don't know... Nothing comes to my mind...

[NaTe J]

Well its good the lens flare is gone but the sun should still be there. And I believe waves dont realy crash like that on a flat beach like that. You usually only see waves like that when there hitting a rocky cliff. And the "rock" on the bottom left looks like a peice of driftwood to me. Maybe you can put a broken up ship in there somewhere. Like a pirate ship that got tossed around in a bad storm. Anyways, good job.

[lasupaman]

hey poly_cube I swear now that I think about it I probably had that same book mark! I think it had a tassel (tassle?) on it... and it had a either a bible verse or old saying on it or something.

anyways... yeah i changed it... added a bit more light in the sun area as one gentleman suggested, and i put more rocks to give a reason as to why the waves were crashing in that manner.

tally ho!:chug: :chug: :chug: