Mountian Painting Practice *update*

[mtomczek]

Heres some practice I have been doing in painter, still kinda hard with my trackball but I am learning. Any comments are welcome. Been working on this slowly off and on over the past week.


http://webpages.charter.net/mtomczek/images/artwork/mountianpractice.jpg

Heres an update, been workin on it some more.

http://webpages.charter.net/mtomczek/images/artwork/moutianpractice2.jpg

[Hunger_Artist]

a bit rough, but you have mostly all the elements down..
I have no idea what blowing snow looks like, so I couldnt say if that is realistic or not.

[Adam]

hey mtom! I think that looks great - although the colors seem too saturated...the lighting is awesome!

[killing.people]

i really like how saturated it is. it looks and feels very real.
i like the blue fill light on the mountains snow.

[Tedsuo]

Wassap Matt. Sorry I haven't been around DSG, I had to reformat my comp this weekend and haven't loaded IRC back up yet.


Did some noodling on your pic. Nothing special or finished but I thought you might find it helpful:

http://tazmanianhamster.tripod.com/pics/TedforMatt.jpg


The three things I was thinking about were pushing the faces which ...er... faced away from the light entirely into shadow, modifying the ridges on the left mountain a bit to more conform to it's over shape, and introducing some oranges and purples to the palette.

Normally I wouldn't post such a craptacular PO, but what the hell, right? :)

[mtomczek]

Wow! thanks a ton ted, that really helped out a bunch. I am going to start working on it again hopefully this weekend, schools almost over for me.
everyone else, thanks for the comments!

[Irate Customer]

I really like the wind-swept snow on the top of the peaks in the first rendition. I think you should definitely keep that in there. It adds a sense of realism, and I could almost hear the wind blowing up there.

It almost feels like to different styles in one piece. The top of the mountains are a bit more crisp in their shadowing and detail, while under them the style changes to a more abstract variation.

Just some random thoughts really. I know you are just practicing so take them for what they are.

Irate