Battle Thoughts

[rafm]

Hi...
latest fantasy illustration...
painted with a mouse in ps-cs2, brush tool...
some refs used... over 30 hours of work.


http://www.raffaelemarinetti.it/img/00438-o.jpg

close up (http://www.raffaelemarinetti.it/img/00438-closeup.jpg)

step by step (http://www.raffaelemarinetti.it/img/00438-stepbystep.jpg)

[Chingwa]

What I think would really help you here is to take a look at your picture as a whole. you have a lot of elements here that are sometimes blurred and sometimes sharp, with no corrolation with how reality would treat these objects when viewed from the viewer's viewpoint. Imagine if you took a photograph of this setting... the point where you focused your camera would be sharper than any point either in front of it or behind it. that's what this needs... a defined focus point.

Also the shadows and highlights of your subject don't jive with the photograph in the background.