Congratulations on this image! You knew how to take advantage of photobashing and deliver an image with a good level of finish. However, I would like to show you in this answer how the problems and approximations in the sketch phase resolve into problematic images at the end, regardless of the amount of photos we add or the level of detail we achieve.
I hope these comments are useful to you, they are about a very common problem in concept art, where technology seeks to alleviate gaps in terms of artistic foundations.
In an image, we only have a limited space to organize a limited number of elements and thus create an attractive and narratively interesting set. In your initial approach, you put the castle on one side of the image almost in the center, and balanced it with a tree on the left. It is a good idea to give balance, depth and scale. But it is a somewhat rigid start where you only depend on these two elements to make your image. You have almost no middle ground to set depth and convert a two-dimensional image into a three-dimensional image.
In the second stage of your sketch, this initial lack is reflected, and the image feels very flat. Also, you do not take advantage of the values to create a composition as such. Remember that composing is organizing shapes so that they are harmoniously related and to favor certain areas of the image, create contrast areas and areas of absence of contrast.
In your image, the values are only juxtaposed without interacting or forming a harmonious whole.
For these reasons, the end result lacks structure and interez, and photographic complexity cannot fill these gaps. If you see your final image in black and white, you will see that the values are not organized harmoniously either, that the forms that stand out more by contrast are not very interesting nor are they the ones that should stand out.
What I recommend is to modify your process a bit and spend much more time establishing your initial sketch in values. It is there where the foundation, the foundations of your image is established. I recommend that you see processes and works by artists like Eytan Zana and Swang Le to see the strength that their images have from the black and white stage and how the color and texturing work adds up to these solid foundations.
I hope you understand that my point here is not to criticize your work for free but to offer you a route to improve your images from its base, and that thus, all the excellent photobashing and texturing work that you add on top has more value.
@jbfraisse Hello. Thank you very much for your feedback, it is an honor that someone like you gives me advice and makes me a criticism that I understand well, it is constructive and seeks to help me improve, so I will follow these excellent tips to improve the image that I initially believed well raised but now that I see it from your perspective I understand the mistakes I made, I will work on it more and update my project hoping to have your support again, greetings!
Uncle between the first version and the updated one is night and day. I would almost tell you that literally ... Congratulations on the progress between one and the other
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Professor PlusHello Paco.
Congratulations on this image! You knew how to take advantage of photobashing and deliver an image with a good level of finish. However, I would like to show you in this answer how the problems and approximations in the sketch phase resolve into problematic images at the end, regardless of the amount of photos we add or the level of detail we achieve.
I hope these comments are useful to you, they are about a very common problem in concept art, where technology seeks to alleviate gaps in terms of artistic foundations.
In an image, we only have a limited space to organize a limited number of elements and thus create an attractive and narratively interesting set. In your initial approach, you put the castle on one side of the image almost in the center, and balanced it with a tree on the left. It is a good idea to give balance, depth and scale. But it is a somewhat rigid start where you only depend on these two elements to make your image. You have almost no middle ground to set depth and convert a two-dimensional image into a three-dimensional image.
In the second stage of your sketch, this initial lack is reflected, and the image feels very flat. Also, you do not take advantage of the values to create a composition as such. Remember that composing is organizing shapes so that they are harmoniously related and to favor certain areas of the image, create contrast areas and areas of absence of contrast.
In your image, the values are only juxtaposed without interacting or forming a harmonious whole.
For these reasons, the end result lacks structure and interez, and photographic complexity cannot fill these gaps. If you see your final image in black and white, you will see that the values are not organized harmoniously either, that the forms that stand out more by contrast are not very interesting nor are they the ones that should stand out.
What I recommend is to modify your process a bit and spend much more time establishing your initial sketch in values. It is there where the foundation, the foundations of your image is established. I recommend that you see processes and works by artists like Eytan Zana and Swang Le to see the strength that their images have from the black and white stage and how the color and texturing work adds up to these solid foundations.
I hope you understand that my point here is not to criticize your work for free but to offer you a route to improve your images from its base, and that thus, all the excellent photobashing and texturing work that you add on top has more value.
Cheers!
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@jbfraisse Hello. Thank you very much for your feedback, it is an honor that someone like you gives me advice and makes me a criticism that I understand well, it is constructive and seeks to help me improve, so I will follow these excellent tips to improve the image that I initially believed well raised but now that I see it from your perspective I understand the mistakes I made, I will work on it more and update my project hoping to have your support again, greetings!
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Uncle between the first version and the updated one is night and day. I would almost tell you that literally ... Congratulations on the progress between one and the other
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@juantarallo Thank you very much for your comment, I hope I can continue to share my progress and reach a good level.
Cheers!!
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