New Year, New User, New Me

[imjaek]

Hi everyone,

I just downloaded and installed Alchemy earlier today.
And played around with it a bit.

This was the "Alchemy" I came up with and then I imported into Photoshop to create what I envisioned.

I have always liked to do rough sketches, but hated doing full out renders... mainly because I sucked at it.
But being a New Year and all, I wanted to overcome this weakness during this year and try to get to a level where I can be proud of myself and my work. So I plan to do just that and try to focus on creating 3 dimensional works by learning color and value.

I would really appreciate some feedback.
I really tried hard and I am pleased with the result, but I know I need to keep practicing to get better, so feedback will help me to see exactly what those areas are that still needs work.

Thank you!

[imjaek]

Day 2 of Alchemy.

RAW & Completed:


Joker Card
I wanted to create a joker that was more like the traditional jester, musical. Using pipes and speaker like details to communicate possibilities of sound are also helped by the black electrical wire type details. Traditional joker colors were used, black, red, and yellow, with a hint of more modern joker colors of purple and green.

Rather than a human, I also wanted to go for a more mechanical look and feel.

[crowline]

Hey imjaek,

I dont finish off sketches as much as i should either, and am more experienced with physical media than digital, but ill give a shot at some advice/feedback anyway.

You seem to have a good handle on making the form pop through the primary highlight. Try adding secondary and reflected light areas.

Also try to reserve the extremes of contrast for just a few of the most important areas. I would shrink the pure white specular areas a lot. And I would try to avoid using pure black as much as possible. Try making your shadow areas a deeply saturated cool color. Something you also may want to try is having the background of the scene be a midvalue - rather than white - for me it is easier to work that way - i find the pure white background very distracting.

One more thing I would work on is reworking some of the less "elegant" hard edges/contours that you get from the alchemy shapes. Anyway, I played around with your drawing a little (in mypaint).. its definitely not refined... kinda fuzzy and i guess i unintentionally mostly killed the greens, but it does show some of the light/shadow stuff and some reworked edges.

[sason82]

awesome work.........







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