| 5 May 2008 |  GOD | Lighting practise? hmm. Set up a lamp on your desk or wherever and draw what you see. Practise from real life, or it’s not very useful practising. Use a hard edge brush next time, the whole picture is fuzzy, and I have my glasses on... Give the creature more muscular definition, then reflect the light off the new features. The mountains should also have reflections from the moon. Try using a reference photo for the mountains.   Shelz Keast replies: "The type of lighting effect I was trying to achieve can’t be mimiced by a simple desklamp. Though I do need some more reference material scattered on my desk. The brush used did have a hard edge, it just had the opacity fairly low and I was in somewhat of a careless hurry. More muscluar definition is something I’ve been trying to work on. Guess I really failed with the walls if you’re calling them mountians. Well reference pictures would have helped in tha instance. At least I can claim that this picture was meant to be viewed at half it’s current size." | |
| 5 May 2008 |  Dave Cripps | Is that it’s mouth? I only ask since I thought it was looking to the right and those were perhaps horns.  Shelz Keast replies: "It’s the mouth." | |
| 6 May 2008 |  John R Farley Jr | Dave is right about the mouth being horns. But it’s a cool effect too, not being sure what’s what. Kind of like letting the viewer decide. I know that’s not what you intended, but it works either way. Very interesting.  Shelz Keast replies: "Ah thanks." | |
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