Monday, August 22, 2011
Lis's Troll Painting
Finally!!! My troll is finished (: I couldn't continue working on it for the past month because I've had nonstop guests... but once they left, I was able to finish in four days. Pretty pleased with it... I was really disliking it before I started to paint, but I think I was just sick of looking at it unfinished on my desk. Now go rent TrollHunter!!!
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real nice lis. He has a very nice forest home he has made for himself. I like the skulls in the back, very nice detail. One thing that keeps standing out to me is the white of his eye, I think it would look better if you toned it down a bit. I would make his whole eye black, but thats just me, it's a minor thing but my eye keeps getting stuck there. Otherwise it's a nice piece. Good job.
ReplyDeleteLis! So great, that mysterious forest background just glows. I figured out what I wanted to tweak on it. I didn't see it in the sketch stage but I just wanted the troll and the background to fit together a little differently. In a drawover I tried two things. I pulled the dark stuff behind his dark head away from him to really highlight his silhouette. On the other paintover I put more dark behind him then gave him very strong edge lighting to make him pop out from the bush and the whole background in general ...
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Our instructor Dan is great at edge lighting ...
http://www.presidiacreative.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/06_08_2009_0890267001249547188_dan-dos-santos.jpg
those are great comments craig. I would have to say the rim lighting makes that troll stand out really nice. The fish especially, I think that fish gets kinda lost otherwise.
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