The Craven (composition)

[hed|lamb]

This is an recent endeavor, one of 33 related "concepts", I've just begun to move from sketch, and clean up to rendering........but I find myself challenging my initial compositional choices. The Wizard and Craven creature are pretty much set in stone, and the "S" or "U" rhythm I'm going for are also. The upper right is the main, the "birds" the outlet, while the cliff to sky remains the neutral. My questions or need for advices point toward the composition in relevance to the negative vs. positive spaces. How do you think I should go about the "moon" (negative), sky (negative) and the "cliff" (positve)? Should the cliff or sky or moon contain any details, or do you think it will throw off the balance of aspects? Should only the moon as opposed to sky and cliff contain detail only, and the other two spaces remain only simple shapes?

http://hedlamb.ice.org/thecraven-backupwip.jpg

This is maybe 1/8th the actual size, and the compression and resizing pretty much killed all my little details. So....

I'm not looking for advices of character, lighting or such....I've pretty much settled on what changes will come, but all advices/opinions are welcomed. =)

[loken]

That is fricken awesome man. Love the character and the staff, and the composition has a very fluid feel to it.

I wish I could offer some advice towards composition but thats a subject I've barely even touched yet.

[daarken]

this is a really nice start! i think the composition is very good and well planned out. i know its just a start, but just get the moon to be a circle, as it is really lop sided right now. after you get it drawn correctly, i think its position is pretty good. as for the cliff, i think if it is just lit a little by the moon so that you see some textures until they fade away into black. just try experimenting with lost and found edges.

[Lukias]

Delicious. Great, oh so slick piece.

Do you think you could post a x2 or x3 version??

[Lono]

yah thats rad.

give us closer look, yes?

-Lono

[hed|lamb]

loken: Thanks for the positve comments man. Haven't seen you on the "boards" lately...

daarken: Ah....my lop sided moon, I'm sloppy at first, I will have to fix that later indeed. =)

You don't think the position of the moon contridicts the lighting (creature and wizard)? I was thinking of moving it up a bit further to the top right, the compisition will only change slightly. Dead on about the cliff, thanks for the advices. =)

Lukias, Lono: Thanks, I haven't worked on this much since, I've moved on to the others and will come back to this one later, but here's a somewhat "sized" version......

http://hedlamb.ice.org/forums/hedlamb-sized.jpg

Also the Wizard's pants will be corrected with actual folds later.