The Slugapillar syndrome

[scottleroc]

Hello Concept artists and the like. I Have been holding off doing this for humm..... years but now I feel ready to show a piece of work to get some professional feedback.

This piece took me a couple of working days, more than I am usually allowed ;) so I thought it might be ok in this section.

As a newb to this forum I don't really know if this hits the levels required for your 'it's finally finished' thread but I consider it finished. It took to long to do anyway so I wouldn't dedicate anymore time to it.

I like a slightly rough finish in my 'digital' brush technique, slap it on as long as it reads correctly ;) that's what I think.

Anyway enough talk, let me know what you guys think.

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[Gavin Hargest]

Nice work, great texture and markings :)

[scottleroc]

Thanks Gavin :$

I think my style is a bit hit or miss with some people

It's all about practice I guess.

BTW This was painted entirely in photoshop, some people ask :bashful:

[Rich Pellegrino]

Nice textures going on in here. I think they are a bit too much at times. Also I am a little confused as to where you want my eye to look. Right now I am looking at the bright yellow on the right. I am not sure if this is important so you may want to readjust your focal points more. It looks to me like the important aspects of this illustration are all out of focus (figure). I think if you reversed this (i.e. make the tree top and the background less textured) it would be much more sucessful. But that is my 2 cents and you can do whatever you want with it.

[scottleroc]

voodoochile thank you for the advice. I have now put this piece in the crit area because as you say the focus is all wrong. I will rework and repost it soon, thank you everyone for your advice :D

[carakhan]

I love love love the tree. But I agree that I don't know where my eye should be going, do you want it focused on a particular place, or perhaps flowing around the painting? Also, The textures are great, but then all of a sudden the man on the left is so smooth, very blurry/airbrushy. I know exactly how that is because I prefer environments myself. It seems that you were confident in your strokes for the tree and background, but the person you struggled with a bit. It actually seems to get more blurry as we move down the picture. I do think it's quite good though. Not a hit nor a miss, but you're getting there, keep it up!

[0shade0]

wow overtextured! easy on those, they're there to make drawing better not more confusing, as the others say, I don't where to look, and I can't make out what's going on. the colours look good.

[scottleroc]

ok ok I get the message. Now I am feeling deflated give me the chance to pick myself up before the next critic has his or her say

[carakhan]

We're not saying it's bad you know. You put this up as a finished piece and there will be critiques. No one has said it sucks so there's no reason to feel "deflated" or pick yourself back up. We're giving helpful critiques, and none of them are harsh.

[scottleroc]

I know ThinMint I wasn't really that worried :D I need the crits to helps me improve thats why I moved this thread to the Crit area.

I was really just naive posting something in the finished section before I got some feedback, it was my first post on this site.

Please feel free to follow its progress on the Crit thread

In the meantime here is another piece of mine that you guys might want to give me some advice on :D

http://conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=76169