Concept Art : Alien Mountain

[Pene Menn]

Hello there ~ ;)
This image is my personal concept work.
I imagined alien base on the top of the mountain like Mt. Everest .
I hope you like this,
Thank you for your looking~*

[joukejan]

Yeah I like it very much. Maybe defining the red light more would be better. Don't know for sure but maybe try that. For the rest it's a nice peace!!

[Anneko-chan]

your piece is lovely- you pulled off the loose yet detailed photoshop style very well. I imagine you're probably doing this professionally?

[Nexus]

Very cool. However, I think you could push the saturation a bit more. Right now it all looks like its covered by the same atmospheric perspective haze. The parts that are supposed to be the foreground don't pop out enough. I ran the image through a pass of increased saturation and I also sharpened the foreground elements and some of the closer scenery. I may have overdone it slightly but you get where I'm going. Maybe somewhere between your original image and my quick attempt would be good. I hope you don't mind the paintover. Hope it helps.

[Duman]

Cool, the shapes really work well, and the purple light is nice, but I wish it wasn't so centered. The blues in that paint over also add to the piece. I like this piece, but can't for the life of me figure out what that weird floating thing in the left hand corner is.

[Taj]

I love your environments, i took a look around your website, great stuff. Got any tips for a beginner who wants to get into more environmental stuff?

[Dahami]

I like what Nexus has done to it. The hazy quality of the scene in the original version works well and suggests the glare from the snow and mist or snow specks drifting in the air, but the contrast and saturation on the figure in the foreground should definitely be a little stronger like in the Nexus version, because we are not staring through all that intervening atmosphere as he is right near the camera. The enhanced saturation of the pink well of light works nicely too. Something about the style of this painting reminds me of Andreas Rocha.

[EVIL]

Its rendered well, but composition wise its a very boring piece.
A landscape with something in the centre and a guy in the foreground for the sake of making the background appear large. Even when the guy fits the image and looks like it belong there, it still feels like a last minute addition for the reason of making the structures in the background feel large.

I would love to see more daring environments from you, with more guts put into the angle and composition. More POW!

[Kvick]

Rararararaaaaaaa critique!!!

I love your work man, evil's comment about composition sparked an epiphany in my head though... Hope you don't mind this paintover either :P Just throwing ideas out there, now that I look at both of them side to side, they kind of feel the same lol.

I used nexus' paintover instead of the original so all the saturation is screwy haha, the idea was for composition mainly though

[joukejan]

I think t's great you come with suggestion and made that out from the original, but are you allowed to do so?

[Kan Muftić]

very nice, pene.

[walnut]

@joukejan: Of course we're allowed, improvement's what this site's there for in the first place. I agree with the paintover's btw, except the one with the figure might be a bit cliché of itself. I love the mountain's design btw, which is why i think it's a shame you decided for less inspired colisseum-looking building in the middle. I'm also wondering whether the perspective is off on that thing. Like the ellipse shape of the top side should be flatter.

[EVIL]

I think t's great you come with suggestion and made that out from the original, but are you allowed to do so?

you have to realize that we paint over paintings to teach. An image is worth a thousand words they say.
So instead of explain it in text, we just provide a paint over in order to better explain what we are trying to teach.

note: these paint overs do not leave this forum.
Its not like we use their work as a base and pass it around for ourselves.

Most of the time its generally accepted that when you post something here you can expect a paint over from members.

[joukejan]

Okey thx for answering!