Tiger Warrior "Last Descendant"

[ShawnYe]

Hi, heres one of my recent work.
I'm having trouble with colours. Any advice on that would be great.
C&C welcome.
http://www.shawnye.com/images/lastdescendant.jpg
*Updated

[Mort]

very nize :)...

[Archangelus]

Buddy?
You don't look like you have trouble with colour at all.
Very good work...and welcome to the forum. ;)

[SinisteR]

I couldn`t do something like that at all, but i think there`s something not entirely right with the way he`s holding his sword.

[Swedish Chef]

I really like the wrappings on his glove. Excellent texture. As for color, I might consider adding some more green elements to the piece. The little green talisman (?) hanging from his belt has a certain "Asian jade" quality to it that may work well with the feel of the painting. Just a thought.

[wus]

wow~

Looks goooood!:clapping1

[Lost]

reminds me of those Stan Winston toys...."Realm of the Claw."

[Android]

I think it looks really great-

the angle of the swoard bothers me a little it seems like it should point off in to the distance more, it would also be cool to add some of the blue reflected light onto the reflection og th blade to seperate it from the backgroung, overall it is a very powerfull image.

[el_kyrre]

Woah... was the first thing that came to my mind!

I really dig that one. I really like those fantasy human-animal-critter-breed kind of creatures.

After i looked at your painting for a while I thought i´d make a quick paint-over in order to show some thoughts that came to my mind.

http://people.freenet.de/freak-ee/lastdescendantredone.jpg

Okay...

First of all I realized that the mein color you used was kind of an orange.
Too make the picture more harmonic, i quickly took it into photoshop and painted over that fur with the blue hue.
I think it was too contrasty, and I gave it some more orange in order to fit it into the painting.

The same I did with the sword. I took some blue and painted over the sword, to make it pop out just a little more.

I am not quite sure if these were the right decisions, but I just tried to figure some color issues out that might be of help to you!

I hope it worked! :chug:

el_kyrre

p.s.
I am not too sure about that sword though...

[KayCustomz]

I remember a tiger just like that in some comic I forgot what it was, it was in a farzatta book, I can't spell his name :ak47: :nana thats what I think of that smile

[syco26]

I think it is awesome.I probably shouldn't say this as I am no where as good as you but...The only prob I had with it was the sword blended into the hills abit much but that is fixed in el_kyrre paint over.Great work though.

[MindCandyMan]

I agree with the other suggestions but wow this is a great painting. The pose is fantastic and the image really grabs you. Excellent work man!

[sea minus]

nice composition

[LC3]

That's NICE and don't let anyone tell you otherwise!!!

As for coloring, I think you should blend the warms and cools more, like you did in the sword. Notice how rich the sword looks in comparison to the background.

[Loga4]

Very powerfull!I like it!

[stalecracker]

Nice work... I, too feel it is too orange. Here's my 2 second 2 cents worth...

http://www.imgmag.net/images/screamcheese/lastdescendantredone2xcopy.jpg

Darkened the shadows on the cat and blued up the sky and blade a little more. Also balanced the green in the charm with a touch in his loincloth and eyes.

[McNallyism]

here's my suggestion...That arm in the foreground needs just a little more contrast to pop it out from the body. especially as you get near the hand and on the fingers. I like stale crackers paintover with the blue added elsewhere. How about smothing out some of those brushstrokes in the background so that the business doesn't compete with the figure itself? Also, it might help if you were to knock back the contrast in the background. You have darker darks and lighter lights in the background than in the figure, so it kind of draws the eye away...

I wouldn't critique it if I didn't already like it, though.

-Sean

[Flip]

Simple colour theory: warm colours pop out, cool colours receed. From this I'd say just cool down the background, maybe add greens to the landscape and blues to the sky? He looks a bit stuck onto the background but I'm not sure how you'd fix that and whether you think it's important in this instance.

Very nicely done.

[ShawnYe]

Thanks for the replies. They have made me more aware of the choice of colours I have made.
I'd taken some of the suggestions and made some minor changes.
Added tint of blue to the reflections of the blade, touches of green to his loincloth to balance with the jade. A little more specularity and contrast to the leather.
I try not to let other elements overpower the face of the cat because thats where I want the focus to be.

SinisteR - Intially I too also have second thoughts about the way his holding the sword but I wanted it to fit into that position to act as a "arrow" to the tiger's face.

Swedish Chef - The jade was actually an afterthought to introduce some green into the scene but i did not quite balance the green well in the scene. I think the suggestion of more green elements would help.

Android - I've added some tints of blues to the blade and increase the saturation a little.

el_kyrre - I like how you made the sword stand out more. Thanks

stalecracker - I really like your suggestions of green added onto the loincloth. I think its a great idea to balance the green in the charm.

LC3 - I'll work on blending more complementary colours together to make it more vibrant and interesting.

McNallyism - Every often I overdo elements thats just isn't nessassary to help on improving the flow of the elements. I really need to look into that.

Flip - I'll take the points in mind since making any major changes at this stage seems a little far too tedious.

The updated picture is at the top

[Pierce]

nice job! if you must do something to the color brighten up the orange color on the tiger, or put a patch of sun light on him lie its coming through the rock in spots.