Troll Gnet Ell Colored

[Pavel Sokov]

check out this russian folk band ( third song is the best )
http://www.trollge.ru/en/indtexts.htm

http://img306.imageshack.us/img306/3425/trollgnetellcolors0my.jpg (http://www.imageshack.us)

[Storyboard Dave]

What is it you want me to see & focus on? The moon or the character.

Color wise, this piece has some problems. If it's the character you want me to see, his color palette blend right in with the trees with the exception of the nose & ears. If you're gonna put the trees in there, use them as a graphic element to help the drawing along- right now they're placed there arbitrarily with no thought to why they're placed there.

There isn't much depth with the piece either. We have no consistent light source and hardly any light & shadow.

Anatomically is the hand over the cane?? Where's the top hand??

[Alex Jenyon]

That song is GENIUS.

Good point above about the light-source, though. It looks like you've 'taken' a picture using a orange-type flash on a camera - you know how awful pictures taken outside look when using a flash...

The light source *Kind* of looks like it's meant to be a fire somewhere out of the bottom of frame - in which case the shadows caused by it would be REALLY BLACK, and the light would be uneven and 'flickery'. Nice and easy to paint, then.

The moon would then cause some nice rim lights on the fur of the costume, and the trees.

That would look cool, though there still might be the problem that we'd look at the moon first rather than your character.

I do like the characer design I can see, bar the anatomy issues - a bit different from most 'trolls' that get done, and a bit like something in Brian Froud / Alan Lee's 'Faeries'.

AJ

[WrittenShadow]

I love the colouring on the trees, and the ink work is very nice. The background maybe needs to mesh a little better. I like the way he blends in personally, but thats just me. I think maybe there's some conflict with perspective and angle in some of the trees but thats just a thought.

Nice work dude! ^_^

[luxun]

in some way i like tha fact that the troll blends in, because it shows how they are one with nature. but on the other hand its not a good thing compositionwise. i dont know

[broken lizard]

i would rather eat every single pencil i own than listen to folk willingly.
>:D
nice picture though.

[Pavel Sokov]

god i love Ca and in long comments, i dont get comments anywhere else :confident
allrighty with the lighting, my light source is a fire coming from bottom right corner. for some reason when i view the image in slideshow view, it lightens up and u can see the lightsource a lot better, i dunno why that happens, il try to lighten up and see if u guys can see the lighting better.
i do admit i dunno shit about lighting at all, im a complete noob. but now that i look at it, id like to see some grey shades on the top of the fur from the moon.
the hand we see is on top of the other hand that we dont see at all.
about trees not having a reason to be there, i dunno what u mean. its a forest, the trees have to be there :[ could u please explain further?
about him blending in, the troll is one with nature, he IS nature :D thats what trolls are all about, im gonna become a troll myself soon :D

also its nice to see that finally SOMEONE listened to the song lol, u guysa re missing out ;)

[luxun]

when i view the image in slideshow view, it lightens up and u can see the lightsource a lot better, i dunno why that happens,

one word "contrast"