My first post....and zombie love!!

[Swedish Chef]

Hey all, this is my first post here on your wonderful site. I just started experimenting with digital art, and I'd like everyone's opinion on a new piece. It's from a short story about this guy that is let out of hell for a day, and he falls in love with a girl. But the story's not really important. I'm using Painter7, which I'm completely new to. What can I do to help this piece? I'm still going to clean up the curtains, the ocean, the beach, and fix the girl's skin color, but other than that I'm stumped. Thanks in advance!
http://www.rsad.edu/~rsawyer/zombielove5.jpg

[Swedish Chef]

And yes, the pose is ripped from an Alex Gray painting. But I think it's pretty safe to say that I changed it around enough so no one's gonna care.

[Swedish Chef]

Alright, I worked on it a little more. Any advice on what else to do? Anything?
http://www.rsad.edu/~rsawyer/zombielovefinal2.jpg

[drewantarctic]

as far as a crit goes, i would suggest that you tone down the colors. add some complimentary colors throughout. you have a ton of superbold colors all around the bodies and noe real shadows or light dropoffs. im sure its probably the style you were going for, but its still a stretch for me. i think the light from the sun on the zombie should be brighter than the light source coming from around the camera. thats the big thing.

the ribcage on the zombie looks like its tilting too much towards the camera. his clavicle isnt going all the way out to the shoulder

good concept though. i feel like im having a dream about a 1950s movie.

[Swedish Chef]

Thanks for the input. I already had to turn in the piece (my teacher wants me to work on the sunset a bit), but I definitely want to go back and touch it up. I think I'm getting the hang of Painter a little better now. I just need to get more confident with opaque brush strokes, rather than relying on low opacity build ups.


Ryan

[Scratched Glass]

hey ryan. one thing i did notice at looking at this now is that the zombies head is way to flat on the top and the back of it goes back almost to far. like it got super flattened. not sure if this was intentional or not. anyways. keep those digi pieces comin