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Altair from Assassin's Creed

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:iconrahll:
Hey bud, here’s your crit:

The first noticeable thing is that it looks unfinished. Everything is very blocky still. If that’s the style you like, that’s fine, but even so, it seems like it needs more definition.

Next thing is the contrast of the picture. It’s relatively low. Everything is kind of dark, so you want to put more lights and highlights into it. Don’t misunderstand, though, the piece definitely works dark, but the rim lighting around his hood and the lighter areas to the left don’t seem to be enough.

At the bottom of the painting, where his cape flairs out you have as these big dark masses. I would try to give more form to it, even if it is dark, because it looks flat as it stands. You’re also going to want to have some smoother gradations on the rest of the cloth, it’ll make it look more 3D instead of flat areas of color.

Also, I would try and define the hand a lot more. It’s a very strong and important part of the composition. It blocks his eyes, which automatically means you need to make it stand out and have importance, because the eyes are usually the focus in close cropped body shots like this. Give the hand some highlights on the left side, because that seems to be primarily where the light is coming from, but once again, don’t go overboard.

I also think you could probably put a little more shadow under his chin, and in the upper most part of his hood. It’ll push the contrast a bit more and look cleaner.

If you decide to go ahead and fix the stuff I’ve mentioned, message me back and I’ll take another look at it if you want me to help more. Goodluck bud, it's coming along pretty solid, but it's just not finished. I like it mucho.

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`adonihs says:
*gets on my knees*
`Rahll says:
lmao stop right there
`adonihs says:
*ties my shoe*
`adonihs says:
homo
:iconandrei08:
I touched it up a bit, but I'm still working on it.
The reason for the low contrast is that I, intentionally wanted to make it dark and have the light source sort of behind him. And yeah, I agree that it is too blocky. But it's just that I want to keep a paint feel to it. (like when you can see a lot of brush strokes) (don't take it the wrong way, I'm still going to fix, though)
Thanks for the great critique. I'm really keeping that smooth gradations suggestion in mind when I'm working on it.

Thanks for taking your time to help me out. I really apreciate it!
:iconrahll:
No problem.

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`adonihs says:
*gets on my knees*
`Rahll says:
lmao stop right there
`adonihs says:
*ties my shoe*
`adonihs says:
homo
:iconbuktopgicha:
his left hand should miss a finger (where his hidden blade comes out) :P and there should be armor around the arm :) work on it a bit more and it'll look great :) and if you give more detail to the hand (like wrinkles and stuff, make it look more realistic) it'll rock ass :)

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Do you know what best part of falling in love is? The oral sex.
:iconandrei08:
:hmm: I didn't think of adding wrinkles to the hand, thx!
:iconbayushi-raven:
*hearts above head* Altair is so hott.... when did he grow back his finger, lol. I didn't know he could do that! :P
:iconandrei08:
After the end of the game, he said "fuck it!" and he cut off someone else's finger and stitched it to his own.
:iconbayushi-raven:
lol. that is funny.... I havent beaten it yet, I am the weirdy that is having fun just exploring and killing the soldiers :P

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