A few Starcraft fanarts. Crits please?

[Lutherniel]

I'm new here and I'm kinda struggling with light and shades. I'm not sure if i got them all right in here. Some crits would be really helpful. =)

[Kainin]

Really like the first one but would ahve liked to see a little more detail on the front trooper just to set the pattern for the background ones

[dmitri]

Try painting with larger brushes. At least it seems like you're painting with very small ones, resulting in holes (small spots of other colors coming through the figures) and some messy... well, brush strokes that don't really convey anything.

[Lutherniel]

Try painting with larger brushes. At least it seems like you're painting with very small ones, resulting in holes (small spots of other colors coming through the figures) and some messy... well, brush strokes that don't really convey anything.

Uhm... you refering to all the 3 artworks or just one?

[Lotet]

I think his talking about all of em...anyhow, I agree...one of the advantages of panting on a computer is that you can cover a lot of canvas space with a single brushstroke.

I think you work pretty well with colour but you need to check your anatomy a little more (for an example the space marines have way too long legs =P )

I like this and I think you have potential, the Kerrigan piece is the best in my opinion, I’m gonna do a little paint over on the Zeratul piece just to show you what I’m (and Dmitri) talking about using bigger brushes.

The only thing I did on this one was taking the colour picker and selected the main colours everything and simply took a bigger brush and painted over it, I did some smudging here and there to smooth it out a but

Hope this helps

[Virg]

not bad at all . first thing that popped in my eye - too much black - too much strokes
those aspect are better in the 2nd version of Zeratul tho.
also avoid using pure white for your highlights, especially in the 1st pic with the hydralisk. The glow coming from the guns should be a bit orange- yellowish , same for the reflection on the hydras.

But overall you got good potential, you got a basic knowledge of composition which is very important. Just try to refine your stroke economy and study the way light works. ( by the way you should keep doing black and white paintings before moving to color , you woud learn to set tones properly much faster )
keep it up, hope it helped :)
AND DT RUSH FOR THE WIN.

[Lutherniel]

Thanks for the crits so far.

I don't really get it about using bigger brushes but I'll see what I can do about it and experiment with it.

What do you mean by too much strokes?

[designboot]

work on the composition in this starcraft fanart ...
and with brush technique :)

i'm waiting for some progress :)