Hello everyone! Let me know your thoughts on...

[douglas]

Hi, I read about this place at DA, wanted to take a look and liked it, so I jumped in ;D

As most of us, I am working to make a career on art world. These are some of my works, write your thoughts and tell me how can I improve my stuff

I did pencils then digital color


I did color on Franchesco! 's drawing


I did digipaint on photoshop from scratch


I am working on some sequential pages...
Peace.

EDIT// hehhehe, had a hard time with PHOTOBUCKET but finally posted my pics.

[comixink]

Nice color work dude! Love that Spidey.

[Littlegett]

The work looks good. but Felicia is YUMMY!!!

[lenneth4]

very cool , the last one is a bit saturated in colors but nice skills on color
try anyway more test on color, try do give depth in your color tones(for example the spiderman is good but the color scheme is linear )

the colo on franscesco is the same, same color of the girl overall , too bad try some different color ambiant on the character himself, maybe it will be add more to your job

sorry a lot for my english

[douglas]

thanks a lot for your comments guys!

I think I see what you mean lenneth4, on spidey and F! colors I tried to place the character on the environment light of the scene, but seems like I ended up using the same color scheme. On Felicia, I worked her with saturated color to bring the figure to the front but overall it might be too dense visually. Let me try some tweaks...


Peace.

[Littlegett]

Mar 25, 2009 5:32:19 GMT -5 lenneth4 said:

very cool , the last one is a bit saturated in colors but nice skills on color
try anyway more test on color, try do give depth in your color tones(for example the spiderman is good but the color scheme is linear )

the colo on franscesco is the same, same color of the girl overall , too bad try some different color ambiant on the character himself, maybe it will be add more to your job

sorry a lot for my english

No offense but you might want to check your own monitor for balance because I think Felicia for one looks fantastic. I wouldn't change a thing.

Spidey looks great as well though the second piece I don't care much for, I think the second one could use a colour overhaul. But Felicia is perfect. If the op sticks to that style I am positive there will be a strong future in art.

[sato]

Wow these are all whicked. Really like the color palette on the Franchesco's one. And I agree that the Felicia piece looks great as it is.
But that spidey really blows my mind. Loving the texture and all of the muscles. Beautiful piece overall.
Keep the art comin

[douglas]

Thanks to all !!!

You know, I don't always get to work on the same monitor.
I am kind of an art nomad, heheheh.

Littlegett mentioned monitors calibration, I am sure,
that we all I see different colors on our different screens ,
and well with the new versions of PS it is hard to get the CMYK thing
you print or see, to work on the JPGs. There is also color taste
if we can call it that way.

I appreciate all comments and try to learn from all them, even if
they are sometimes hard to deal with.

You know sato, all those popped muscles on the spidey are there
cause I wanted to try a little anime/ninjascroll/streetfighter
overdone unreal anatomy to see how it works, I know he is to built
for parker, and that it is not the traditional look, but
I like the result and well it was a good practice, glad you liked it

Peace.

[lenneth4]

Mar 25, 2009 10:40:40 GMT -5 Littlegett said:

Mar 25, 2009 5:32:19 GMT -5 lenneth4 said:

very cool , the last one is a bit saturated in colors but nice skills on color
try anyway more test on color, try do give depth in your color tones(for example the spiderman is good but the color scheme is linear )

the colo on franscesco is the same, same color of the girl overall , too bad try some different color ambiant on the character himself, maybe it will be add more to your job

sorry a lot for my english

No offense but you might want to check your own monitor for balance because I think Felicia for one looks fantastic. I wouldn't change a thing.

Spidey looks great as well though the second piece I don't care much for, I think the second one could use a colour overhaul. But Felicia is perfect. If the op sticks to that style I am positive there will be a strong future in art.

yeah okay, i'll not talk too much on color ,especially color tone critiques.
no problem thanx for mention that.!
sorry if i was wrong.!

[douglas]

lenneth4 I do appreciate your comment, I think you have
a good point about color schemes "figure/background" talking.

I believe having a different point of view doesn't make you wrong,
as thinking the same as others doesn't make you right.

I rather everyone speak their mind.


Peace.

[lenneth4]

ohh ok , it's fine!! u seems very very confident and quiet with critiques.
i'd like to be like that XD
anyway good job , keep it up doug !

[seraph]

I have a question on consistency.

First off, I like the colors. I envy anyone who can work well with color. I, myself, cannot. I'm strictly a pencil and pen and ink kinda guy, I guess.

But, I digress...

I have two things on the spidey piece.

1) His neck. Where it meets his jawline and skull. Seems a bit bulky. I know what you were going for stylistically, but this just looks a little off to me. His neck is too thick, it seems.

2) The warm colors for the background at night. I can see the moon, and I get the impression at first that this was a sunset scene. Then the moon comes it. Throws you off. I feel this piece would be much more effective as a fully night time scene (with lights from the buildings, etc). I just don't feel there's enough contrast within the colors. It blurs at a distance, and the only true things that stand out are the buildings (cool vs. warm color makes them contrast) and the blue portions of his costume.

The warm colors just seem to blend in together. I feel there should be either more of a baseline red to his costume to help differentiate it (theoretically) from the background, or something of the sort.

Other than that, I love the colors. I really do.

[douglas]

I see what you mean seraph, this guy has the neck of a horse! ;D

About the moon... haven't you seen the moon during daylight? really?
(no I am not kidding) But again the color scheme has to be tweaked.
The light in the windows sounds like a great idea!!!

I have to be honest, I started this drawing and the final lines
didn't work as I wanted, I mean I like the pic, but it wasn't that WOW!
anyway, I have a problem with patience and finishing things, so as an
exercise on discipline I decided to go with this one ALLTHEWAY, cause
sometimes one just have to let go and FINISH the job, even if it is not
"PERFECT". I think editors rather great-on-time better than perfect-always-late.

I do have a very hard time coloring, I feel weak in that area, so I do
my extreme best to get my colors.

Thanks for commenting!

Peace.