Ancient Spaceship

[ConceptCreature]

http://www.rsad.edu/~jmartin/netimages/ArtifactLandscape.jpg

Hey, ya'll!

Just finished this in Painter, and wanted some feedback.

I think I'm gonna use it for my new Portfolio cover, since it's got a lot of nice empty space for a name and a title.
Tell me if the perspective's working, the depth, the objects, the textures, etc., etc.

Thanks!

-J

[gallon]

Ancient spaceship uh?
Ok, why is it there? Has it crashed into the ground?
Then we should see scattered debrisand stuff like that. Holes in the ground, evidence of impact...that sorta stuff.
For me, I didn't see the ancient spaceship straight away (hence the first sentence of the post), maybe you should add some more "Spaceshippy" details.

[Yaseck]

CCreature: I like this one, but you can use more blur on the background. These hills are too sahrp for me. And if the starship is circle-shape, then the smaller elipse is worng. Look carefully. In this perspective the smaller elipse sholud be smaller. And I agree with gallon - you could do some more tetails on the foreground (spaceship). It wolud make the illusion of deep.

gallon: I don't agree with you about the holes in the ground (impact). Have you seen "Thing"? In this film a spaceship crashed many many years before mankind and it was hidden under the ground (snow). Eruption is on, if the spaceship is old.

[andreasrocha]

I don't agree that much with gallon, about the missing elements. The ground could be soft, and not rock-hard. The spaceship might have crashed at a low velocity (who knows how these human/alien space ships work). However, I would enhance the "digged" ground, raising the earth-hump in front of the space-ship.
Perhaps you could also introduce some more saturated colors to the space-ship, in order, to make it stand out a bit more.
What I do not like so much about this image is the space-ship tail...those spikes that are coming out at the back are not believable to me. They lack rendition and need a lot more detail. My advice would be to shorten the spikes, or erase them. They distract too much.

Otherwise, a beautiful piece.

[gallon]

Yaseck : Mh, that's right. Didn't think about that one (eruption and wind blowin' sand over the ship).

Well then maybe have some parts of the ship coming out of the ground, giving reference to the size of the ship (maybe huge but mainly covered with sand)

[ConceptCreature]

Originally posted by Yaseck
CCreature: I like this one, but you can use more blur on the background. These hills are too sahrp for me. And if the starship is circle-shape, then the smaller elipse is worng. Look carefully. In this perspective the smaller elipse sholud be smaller. And I agree with gallon - you could do some more tetails on the foreground (spaceship). It wolud make the illusion of deep.

gallon: I don't agree with you about the holes in the ground (impact). Have you seen "Thing"? In this film a spaceship crashed many many years before mankind and it was hidden under the ground (snow). Eruption is on, if the spaceship is old.

ARTIST: Thanks everyone for responding! It means a lot to me, and some great things were said. I agree with Yaseck on the sharpness of the hills. It's one of those things where you don't notice something 'til AFTER posting, and that's the first thing that stood out. I've dulled them down since then. And thanks to gallon for explaining how an ancient spaceship's surroundings can make it look ancient! :)

[ConceptCreature]

Originally posted by andreasrocha
I don't agree that much with gallon, about the missing elements. The ground could be soft, and not rock-hard. The spaceship might have crashed at a low velocity (who knows how these human/alien space ships work). However, I would enhance the "digged" ground, raising the earth-hump in front of the space-ship.
Perhaps you could also introduce some more saturated colors to the space-ship, in order, to make it stand out a bit more.
What I do not like so much about this image is the space-ship tail...those spikes that are coming out at the back are not believable to me. They lack rendition and need a lot more detail. My advice would be to shorten the spikes, or erase them. They distract too much.

Otherwise, a beautiful piece.

Thanks for your input, Andreasrocha. Yeah, the shape of the spaceship was really very compulsive. I didn't really think about the spikes/thin wings--just kinda threw them in. I think I am going to go back and render them a little more, make them more distinct.

[John P.]

I think you should loosely sketch that spaceship in a couple of perspectives first, to see how those spikes would attach.

'Cause to me, this looks like your normal flying saucer, in other words a perfectly round 'plate'. And those spikes don't seem to fit into that.

But if you meant it to look a little like the Enterprise(Star Trek), with a disc in front and a tail attached behind it, that's cool, but if so it doesn't come across. Not to me anyway. :)


The other people here have already mentioned the other things I thought of.


Personally, I would've liked a little different perspective, closer to the ship, and still with more of the ground showing.

But nice job so far anyway. :)