Misc background - Critics please step forward.

[Moresco]

Ok so I did this not for me, but for a friend of mine that is building a new game.  Anyway since I have my own things to do, I didn't get much done with it.  The car is pretty much done I guess, unless I can think of anything to add.  Maybe I could clean up the words on the hood but we're not really sure what it's gonna say yet.  

The far right is ugly, yah the smudged blackness.  I'll probably redraw the yellow lines brighter....but that'd be about right if you visited where I live...they're badly faded all over town.  



EDIT: Ok so after looking at it again, I think I want to add lights to the wood beams above the entrance. I know it doesn't look like much of an entrance & I'll fix it up more.  But, how do I determine where the light will hit?  Any tutorials on light? Sounds strange maybe, but that'd be helpful.

[Jam Torkberg]

Not sure why, but it pixely somehow.  I thought it might be the compression, but no, it is a gif image.  But non-the less certain areas seem blocky, as if drawn in a lower resolution and then blown up.

I like the colors used, thought the contrast between the scene and the car seems to denote that the car is not from this part of town.  I have no way of knowing if this is true, not knowing the premise or story of the story, but that is the idea that is conveyed, to me at least.

Overall, a worthwhile background.  Nice work.

edit: formating issues

[Moresco]

Pretty good eye you've got.  I'll have to fix that up in the next day or so.  And yes you're right, I did blow it up.  Now about the car, I didn't know what the car would look like, given that it's not American so I just traced one.  I dunno if that's a sin or not, but it seemed pretty easy & maybe I'll just have to dull the car's colors down.

Update:
I've added an updated image.  Hopefully it's a little more refined this time.  I think it's pretty good now.

[Nacho]

Sorry to ask if this has been asked before, but... which is your tecnique? Oil, or is it just that heavily PS PSP effects have been done there?

I like it, btw.

[Dmitri]

I just have to know one thing

how in the diddley are you gonna make smoothe char animations in this kinda style?

I mean, it's a great background... and so's this

http://www.arches.uga.edu/~ryanbush/starry-night.jpg

but can you imagine an entire game in that style?

while I'm sure it'd be lovely, I mean.. HELL! It'd take FOR-EVER

[Nacho]

he he Dimitry...  

I agree... Moresco has a problem, not just  for animating objects, but also for making the walk-behinds.

BTW, I keep my opinion that it´s a supperb oil-style bg (instead the problems to make it workeeh...)

[BOYD1981]

erm, i can't see the image, actually i don't think i've been able to see one of your pics Moresco...

[Moresco]

Well to start, it's not finished yo. But anyway THIS background isn't for me, so I don't exactly know what's going on with the characters yadda yadda.  In another thread, you will see that we're working on getting my technique refined(or put another way...teaching me how to make better art).  So there you go.

For Boyd, I'm not sure what I can do cuz other people can see em but you can't.  Also, Remixor said he couldn't hear my mp3's...that they were empty(which is a travesty!).  What OS/Browser are you using?

EDIT:  Oh yah and don't forgets I've been drawing for what, two weeks?  Heh, so don't just say it's oily dude! - say, hey dude try doing it this way instead[...point to tutorial].  That'd be helpful! ^^

[Jam Torkberg]

I don't think he meant to say your art is oily in a negative way.  I read him as asking if you use oil paints and then scan it in.  I would take this as a compliment.  If you can use PS and have people think you’re using oil points, rock on!

As for your revised background, I am tempted to say I prefer the first one.  It seemed to have more texture, more life, while the second one looks (if you'll forgive me) like a finger painting.

If you have your heart set on the second draft, however, the only thing I would say is get the old wheels to the car back.  The new ones seem far too small, and much less detailed.

[Moresco]

Hehe, to quote Sandler some: I think they're excellent finger paintin's

If I do anything off the computer it's sketch.  All I have are my drawing pencils & my book: Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain...which ain't too bad, but I think I need some others soon.  Then, I paint it all in photoshop.  

I agree about the wheels & that it lacks detail now.  I didn't see that when I was messing around with it...it's hard to see where I go with things till I'm already there.  That's my amateurishness showing ^^