critique my concept art (and illustrations)...

[Jay]

Originally Posted by Blue

Impressionism often incorporates strange visual angles, and besides, it was clearly a facetious comment.

Hang on, you can't have it both ways, justifying the comment and then instantly calling it a joke.

For what it's worth (not much), I thought the artwork was great - even the sometimes wonky perspective didn't bother me so much. I thought your environmental/architectural stuff was much stronger than the people in the environments. But I am mostly a moron when it comes to this kind of stuff.

[Frostillicus]

Originally Posted by Blue

Vin's right, the perspectives are way off in most of them. But if you just start following the rules, and quit the impressionist bullshit, you'll be fine. Everything else about them is fairly accomplished.

Man, i wish i could do impressionist paintings.

I wouldnt say the perspectives are way off in most of the environments. the only obvious one would be the top one (shown in spoiler). The others ive generally stuck to the 1&2 point perspectives and the blue/green futuristic one ive used three-point perspective, which distorts the buildings to add another dimension of depth.

The support bars are clearly out of perspective. LOL.

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Just to give an idea of the kinds of perspective im doing, heres two others.

I think its probably my crude line work which maybe gives that illusion. ill try tightening that up a bit more with my later stuff. Any particular scenes which seem 'way off'?

Originally Posted by Jay

Hang on, you can't have it both ways, justifying the comment and then instantly calling it a joke.

For what it's worth (not much), I thought the artwork was great - even the sometimes wonky perspective didn't bother me so much. I thought your environmental/architectural stuff was much stronger than the people in the environments. But I am mostly a moron when it comes to this kind of stuff.

Aye my characters/people are completely screwed. Time to get out the anatomy books. argh...

Cheers for the comments everyone. Really helps!

[Frostillicus]

Just thought id post some recent work

[Blue]

Jay: "Hang on, you can't have it both ways, justifying the comment and then instantly calling it a joke."

@Jay: I didn't say it was a joke; it was simply a comment that, while based on a small element of truth, was clearly tongue-in-cheek. I am certainly able to justify why the comment was valid, while pointing out that it was a very obvious exaggeration.

Originally Posted by Frostillicus

I think its probably my crude line work which maybe gives that illusion. ill try tightening that up a bit more with my later stuff. Any particular scenes which seem 'way off'?

Ha, the three that you didn't post lines for were the three that I noticed it with. Particularly the bridge, which looks like it's leaning towards you, like a tilting rope bridge. I think it's something to do with the shading near where the bridge connects to the edge of the platform. Anyway, the rest of it is so solid.

Love the cop. Joe Pesci?

[Frostillicus]

Originally Posted by Blue

Love the cop. Joe Pesci?

"Don't worry about your home... it's in good hands"

Doodle comp and colour sketch
trying to get a complimentary colour palette for this one. Purples and yellows.

[Zace]

Originally Posted by Vindik8or

Go easy! I wouldn't say it's way off, I'd say it's off just enough in enough places to be disconcerting and confuse the eye.

I also don't know what you're on about with the impressionist comment, I don't really see anything impressionist at all about these pictures.

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[Frostillicus]

Heya fellas
some recent work

slopping together some layouts. many typos, but not really concerned with that at this stage.

CRITS APPRECIATED