King of the frozen wastes and his harem

[Oolong Boartusker]

Here's the sketch, anyone see anything wrong anatomy wise?

http://www.cbctx.com/images/tal/tigers_web.jpg

[OrangeCatNinja]

looks awesome, but it's kinda hard to see what's goin on

[Oolong Boartusker]

Thx, the sketch is pretty hard to see whats going on. I'm hoping once colored it changes that. Here's an update.

http://www.cbctx.com/images/tal/tigers2_web.jpg

[Nimrod]

Looks nice, good colors. As for anatomy, all of the characters heads look disproportionately large to me. I suppose thats 'correct' since a tiger/other big feline's head is indeed bigger than a humans; in practice it looks strange. Neither the human nor the feline anatomy is off at all though from what I can see (it is still a bit unclear at this stage). Try it both ways and see what you like I guess.

[OrangeCatNinja]

hmm, it looks like it could use a bit more cleanup and color work, but it's definetly easier to see the definition now

[espaki]

i think your anatomy is good, but I also agree that the tiger's heads look a little bit disproportionate, but thats all personal preference.

one thing you might want to look at is how jon foster uses light and shadow to create depth in the scene here:
http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=5290 .

-Nate

[Oolong Boartusker]

Not done coloring yet, but here is an update of today's work.

http://www.cbctx.com/images/tal/tigers3_web.jpg

[killing.people]

it looks really busy. everything looks too shiney or chome. i dont know how to fic it, it was my impression. something .. its contrast, maybe it needs more nutral colors .. something to seperate the different figures.

hope that helps.

[Oolong Boartusker]

Still not done coloring, but does this work better? I toned it down a little to hopefully get rid of the business of the picture. What is the first thing your eye is drawn to?

http://www.cbctx.com/images/tal/tigers4_web.jpg

[OrangeCatNinja]

i would say definetly smooth out the colors a bit more, and possibly make the hues a little been less extreme, not too dark or too bright? do u know what i mean? i think that would help a lot, you can always add the hard shading/highlighting later =)

[Nimrod]

My eye is drawn to the bright yellow sun and the rest of the picture wont let me escape. make some inroads to your main subjest and make the subject stand out more. I would say pick just one of the characters and make them 'pop' and flesh them out.

[Emptypants]

I hate to bring this up when you're almost done ... but the left arm on the tigress on the left seems to be coming OUT of the middle of her back, and not from behind her shoulder area. But other than that, nice concept, and nice art.

[Oolong Boartusker]

The King is supposed to be the main focal point, so I got rid of the yellow sun, and tried to play down/neutralize the colors of the other characters a little.

I took a look at that arm, and then at my reference I used and I'm not so sure that it is the arm that is messed up, but the armor around it or the straps I added on her back which make it look awkward, not quite sure how to fix it though.

http://www.cbctx.com/images/tal/tigers5_web.jpg