[wacom drawing] CY- rex .. wip

[dapo1981]

well .. im working on this one .. the first time i drawed something with my wacom with the attemt to coloring it.

so here it is so far, tell me what you think of it..

it is not finished but im working on it :)
i suck at drawing.. but with a little digital editing i hope it will come out well..

sketch
http://forum.unknownnet.com/upload/att_e26798e12f240d46833c6edfb4a69de8cyrex.jpg

1st preview
http://www.p-roach.nl/host/dapoporto/wip.jpg

2nd preview
http://www.p-roach.nl/host/dapoporto/wip2.jpg

3th preview
http://www.p-roach.nl/host/dapoporto/wip3.jpg

hope you guys like it sofar ..

[Wilson]

the good:

good concept. i like the replacement of the back legs with skinny robot ones.

nice textures. I like the leathery look to the skin. The treatment of the veins on the hind leg stump are rather nice
:thumbsup:

I like the treatment of the orange orb things :)

the bad:

it looks pretty flat. i can't be real picky yet, because you're still not finished, but there's hardly any depth. Don't get me wrong there is depth, but in the end the depth is only that of a plank of wood, not a large rounded form that a dino body has. This has a lot to do with drawing correct elipses through your form from the point of turning. Your details should be following the elipse of your forms so that you get more of a sense of turning. I start to feel some depth at the back of the cy-rex in the last pick because of the shading, but then you kill it because you don't keep the tail in ths same shadow. The curves of the tail are very wrong. Especially the end. They would be curving the opposite way.

Watch the shape of the tail. It's getting big and then narrow then big.

Some of the shadng on the head is bugging me because it's the kind of shading I'd expect to see on type. Almost like a drop shadow. They probably wouldn't be that dark. Take care with shading creases on organic masses. They look more like the mountain surface on a map than veins on a dino. You did a better more suttle job with the hind leg stump.

Watch where you put your highlites. The light is supposed to be coming from bellow but I see highlites on top of the brow and veigns. If it's dark on top then light is coming from the bottom.

Consider your light source more. Ask yourself where those cast shadows would fall. Some of them are really off. Your technique is pretty good you just need to adjust your placement better. Look at some objects in real life. Light them the way you want the light to look and observe the range of values. Keep your shading simple. Think of an egg lit from underneath and let that be a model for the whole drawing.

Keep up the good work though, I see some good things happening. Just keep thinking of the big picture you're trying to communicate in your image.