Quote Illustration

[Lusvell]

I rushed it a little, so I dont think it's worth on the "It's finally Finished!!" section

http://img447.imageshack.us/img447/1558/imanamerican3le.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[Lesak]

whats the concept?

[Lusvell]

??

It's a little hard to miss there buddy...

it's about the immigration issue

[FoStraight]

Overall, I think the color palette is too saturated, and there's too much white and black. Use a muted palette and reserve your most saturated colors for the focus of the image. You should also eliminate pure black and pure white entirely; instead of white, for example, just use a very light tint of a contrasting color, and you'll get the same effect of blankness, but with more color unity in the image. (It should be noted that no object is actually pure white. Since our eyes only perceive color as reflected/absorbed light, an object's color depends on the color of the light hitting it. Even things that appear to be white are just very light variations of color, except in the most extreme lighting situations.) Mainly, you need to make your colors work to draw the eye into the image the way you want, and this usually means more contrast on the focal point, less contrast everywhere else. The more saturated your colors, the more potential they have to create contrast. If all your colors are saturated, they lose that effect.

A good way to fix this might be to lay down a flat color or gradient in a new layer underneath your painting, then reduce the top layer's opacity slightly so that the color underneath shows through. Or, you could do the same sort of thing by making a new layer on top and filling it with a color, setting it to multiply, and then reducing the opacity all the way to 0; then, slowly bump the opacity back up a few notches at a time until the color has mixed in with your painting enough to unify it a little. Flatten, and then go back in and reestablish some contrast in your focal areas, staying away from pure white and pure black (use "almost white" and "almost black" versions of colors you pick from the image).

[Gunther409]

also, erase that little scribble underneath the sign that sais "I'm not a patriot" that's kind of annoying and doesn't appear to be an intentional part of the picture. Overall I like the picture itself, but as stated above quite clearly, you really do need to avoid solid colors. I personally don't mind the solid background, but its the clear cut and defined shadows that annoy me. Maybe try to blend the shadows and try not to make them 100% black.