western gas witch + hooligan bafoonery

[benzo]

i almost put this in finished because i have tweaked this as much as i know how, but I'm still not happy with it. I would love any suggestions, especially for color and composition, technical stuff. anything dreadfully wrong? what about the bg? anything, i just want to know how to finish it. thx!


http://www.rsad.edu/~bsprout/calibur.jpg

[R_M]

Hi Benzo,
Nice picture, I really like the skull boot design! very original, and I have a couple of color suggestions.
First for the smoke comming out of the gun. it is the same color of the bg sky, and theat makes it hard to see, at first I thougth it was part of the clouds. You could paint it greyish, that way it will stand out more...
Oh and the figures have no shadows on the ground...
Second, you should tone down the colors on the guy in the back, that would improve the depth of field of the image.
hope you you find it usefull, and post an update

[benzo]

Thank you R_M,

changes have been made. I accidentally replaced the original post image, so the progress can't be seen. I made the smoke from the barrel a different color, pushed the left character into the bg, and added more apparent shadows to ground the figures. Does it work?