This still doesn't look finished to me. It looks like a good color study, but it doesn't have any finished details to it. This is supposed to be a portrait and yet he has no facial features. Also, I don't know that you're getting anything out of the critiques, Andi. By that I mean every suggestion that was made to help improve this image, you disregarded and continued doing your own thing. I don't expect you to change your image to every suggestion, but I'd like to see that you are at least considering them. If you think of this as an illustration job from a client, and that client wants revisions to the image...if you just keep going ahead doing what you want to do, that client will just drop you and find a new illustrator who can accommodate them.
I think this image has some potential to be really nice, but you need to push it to a level of finish. The basses are still a distracting design component, the light still looks like bubbles, he has no distinct facial features to account for a likeness, and your value structure needs some tweaking. Right now he is a dark figure against a dark background separated by an edge light (line), if I squint he melts into the background because line doesn't hold up. Please keep in mind, I'm trying to help make you better and get you to push yourself outside of your comfort zone.
This still doesn't look finished to me. It looks like a good color study, but it doesn't have any finished details to it. This is supposed to be a portrait and yet he has no facial features. Also, I don't know that you're getting anything out of the critiques, Andi. By that I mean every suggestion that was made to help improve this image, you disregarded and continued doing your own thing. I don't expect you to change your image to every suggestion, but I'd like to see that you are at least considering them. If you think of this as an illustration job from a client, and that client wants revisions to the image...if you just keep going ahead doing what you want to do, that client will just drop you and find a new illustrator who can accommodate them.
ReplyDeleteI think this image has some potential to be really nice, but you need to push it to a level of finish. The basses are still a distracting design component, the light still looks like bubbles, he has no distinct facial features to account for a likeness, and your value structure needs some tweaking. Right now he is a dark figure against a dark background separated by an edge light (line), if I squint he melts into the background because line doesn't hold up. Please keep in mind, I'm trying to help make you better and get you to push yourself outside of your comfort zone.