Charlotte's Works

Wow Charlotte, it's great to see what you've done with this! Despite your issues with Artrage, you seem to producing some fine work with it.

I forgot to add some sort of unifying texture on top (and couldn't figure it out quickly so I left it for now) but other than that I think it's maybe, possibly, a little finished. Perhaps? I'm not sure about the colours yet, especially of the middle character, but again I need to sleep on it. Anyway I've been spending way too much time on this one and I've decided that all the value/form bits are done though I might still tweak the colouring...

The the tone and the illustration itself are beautiful;) I like the colors on the bottom two characters and the background but like you said I'm not sure if the middle character's color is working. It seems she needs to pop out a little more right now she almost blends into the background even with her being a warmer color. If she is to be the main focus of the image you might ramp up the saturation on her more than the rest of the illustration (I would focus the attention on the great head and crown you gave her perhaps give that crown a bright accent color like a saturated red or deep saturated purple to really draw our attention there a color that is nowhere else in the illustration) Maybe even a super bright highlight in those dark eyes.

What about making her jet black with bright reflective highlights? (Like the original Giger alien)

I think that this is looking wonderfully sharp and polished. A remarkable piece of work. Really liking it!

The whole thing looks excellent but the central figure could use more contrast -- perhaps some strong highlights as Dom suggested. Love the lighting you added to the background and the kneeling figures. (PS. By vignette, I meant sort of dark around the edges, but it doesn't seem to need that now!)

Simply beautiful work! Personally I'm not sure a high saturated focus point is the way to go. I'd be more tempted to explore the use of tone to create the focal point. Geiger also did a number of works where the focal point was less pronounced than in more illustrative works. I think it often gave a more surrealist look to his images. Not saying that's where you should take this one, just a thought.

Thank you everyone for your help with this one! I tried various things with the central character, both making her much darker and quite a lot lighter but didn't like the results much - I decided on a colour that ties in with the two other characters but also making her a bit darker and adding a bit of light behind her (god rays, woohoo! )

I have decided that it's now finished and have uploaded the image to my gallery here (though it displays it with less than satisfactory quality I'm afraid...) and I might do a finished images thread as well (though I suspect I'll only be able to add one or two images a year there!)

Anyhow, I thought I'd make a "compilation" of the different stages of this image, from sketches and finished line drawings, to initial values and then, very much with all of your help, final values and colours.

Just checked out the finished piece and it looks AWESOME. Loving the colour on the main figure you decided on and the quality isn't too bad when you bring up the floating image box thingy.

Cool. Those progress sheets look awesome!

I love annotated drawings too. So interesting!

I love the compilation process image, because I really like to see the steps that lead to the final images that people make.

I also really like the crisp line work that you used in this image. Plus I think the color work took care of a lot of what you were looking for with this one.

Well done!