digital painting

[Aljoho]

Hey guys n gals.

for a while now i've been determined to teach myself to paint digitally, and after lots of funny experiments i have finally produced something i feel happy enough with to post on teh interweb. Its pretty rough, but i want tips on how to improve

be brutal:



i was aiming for a kind of saturated mirrors edge look in the windows- blindingly bright - by contrast to the outside, in an attempt to make it look sort of sci-fi slum like

Its about two hours all told - I'd be interested to learn how that compares to the time you guys reckon it'd take you?  The actual shading and adjustment layers were about 20 mins, but doing the whole vanishing point lines for the buildings took most of the time.

how to improve? i'm still thinking its a bit to bland in its colouring (only one main colour, excluding the clothes of the guy) and i guess its not very visually interesting with all its desaturated noir glory, but... anyway.

much thankings in advance ,

aljo

[Sephiroth]

Hi,

The first thing that caught my attention is the rain layer, rain effects can be added later with the AGS editor and I think it doesn't look so good compared to the background quality. Could you show a version without it?

I know you can't really talk about perspective issues unless you trace the vanishing lines but nothing seems wrong about it at first glance.

Other than that, a few details like a door, signs, trash etc would be a nice addition and you could make the player focus on one particular point. For example with a gloomy colapsing sign above the door and a trash can, drunk guy, just a thought.

The guy seems a bit tall compared to what I think is a door on the left.
I already like it, especially if this is one of your first experiments but you asked for hard crits

Edit: Maybe you could add some depth using darker or brighter colours in the foregroung/background, but the reflection of lights on the road is really neat.

[Hudders]

The first thing that caught my attention is the rain layer, rain effects can be added later with the AGS editor and I think it doesn't look so good compared to the background quality. Could you show a version without it?

Yeah, I thought that also. If you do want rain in the picture, draw straight lines rather than these wobbly ones.

The man could do with some work. He looks much more amateurishly drawn than the rest of the image.

[Aljoho]

Great, thanks! you told me several things i hadn't noticed. i don't have any time to touch it up right now, but i will change the things you guys mentioned within the next few days, and post an update.