Sort of station - need help

[toma]

Hi all,

I have been playing with photoshop and here is what I came up with :

http://tartopoms.free.fr/divers/images/pouf3.jpg

I think I have gone into detail too much before putting better masses of colour.

I think I need help on the lighting, shadows and overall mood of the stuff. It looks way too flat :)

Anyway, any input will be more than welcome.
Thanks in advance.

toma.

[saturnfive]

I think it could be pretty nice when finished, I have just two crits: Firstly, the perspective in the middle hangar section is a little off. Second, the composition doesn't have a lot of 'depth' for the eye to travel into it. Personally I would reframe it: either rotate the view so you can see right into the hangar (and I'd make the hangar bigger if you're going to do this), or rotate it the other way so that you can see the right hand vanishing point and put something to grab the eye down there :)

[toma]

hi saturnfive,

Thanks for your input.
OK for the perspective in the entrance of the hangar, I'll fix it soon.

As for the composition and the depth, I totally agree that it looks flat and uninteresting to the eye. As a matter of fact, this was more a kind of sketch to pratice a bit different tools and trying to learn basic technique. That's why I did not even draw a sketch before. I just set up some lines in photoshop.

Anyway, I'll post here as soon as I have updated. Thanks a lot for your comment, it was a pleasure reading you.

toma.

[saturnfive]

Thanks, Heh, if only painting were as easy as making suggestions on other people's work ;)

I didn't mean it looks 'flat and uninteresting to the eye', just that it can be a little awkward when you look into an image and your viewpoint gets stopped short.

[toma]

I began correcting :

http://tartopoms.free.fr/divers/images/plouf_4.jpg

The perspective inside the hangar should be correct now, and I have deleted a part of the bulding on the right. I think I should add some scenery, or a vast and desert landscape. Still don't know what, so I put that grey/blue/green sky :P

I'll work on it til I'm satisfied a little bit more with the result.
Thans for your comments saturnfive. And by the way awesome concepts on your website ! I love it !!!

see you soon

toma.

[saturnfive]

Thanks a lot mate :) I think the new version is much better, look forward to seeing where you take it now.

[joel]

looks like its gonna be cool, but i think i kinda like the top one better, felt like you were inside an extremely large station. It was more mysterious, i imagined seeing the inner workings (pipes and whatever else)

[toma]

Joel : well I agree that the top image makes it more mysterious, but it lacks a lot of depth... I'm still trying to understand how to put colours and so on :)

I'll try to update asap !