Composition looks good to me. You can easily adjust this with the water reflections and the intensity of the light from the moon. The size of the moon can entirely change things and is my only real crit now. Its rather small and if this creature is the last one and is self conscious then surely its expressing its hope in the distant moon. Therefore the moon should be more hopeful and inviting or calling.

*moon and water are used for commenting only. This may well be another world :)


Edited by jalonso - 21 October 2011 at 7:59pm

Add a dithering around the work, will become more fluent, or instead, add one more color to the shadows.

This is above my level and I have little to add, except that if the focus is supposed to be the interaction between a human and some alien organism / machine, then I think you may be right about the composition.

I wonder why you've opted to use a top-down, bird's eye perspective. Wouldn't a lower perspective, ground level, make it easier to focus on the interaction between the gigantic creature and the small person looking up at him? Like this?
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v179/CELS83/Pixel%20Art/fixedalien.png

Not so much a suggestion as a question.




Edited by CELS - 23 October 2011 at 1:38am

or you could make the left island break the horizon as well.

The moon looks out of place (because of its hue) and its shape isn't quite circular. It attracts a lot of attention, too, despite its small size. I think that if the creature is the most important part of the composition, you'll have to tone down the moon, maybe add some clouds next to it to dissipate it, and of course add more light reflecting on the creature. Contrast is an issue for now.
Furthermore, if you added some reflected light on the water, the sense of place but also of space will be better conveyed.

It's still very pretty. I like the way you've drawn the stars, except that the contrast looks a bit too high, so it's distracting, as you say.

Drazelic there's one problem with the stars. We can not see the stars that are placed too close to the moon (especially when it's full moon) because of its brightness. I think if you empty the surrounding are, and maybe change it to a glow around the moon instead, it'll look better.

The fire looks very cool, but the man is too misshaped.

Wow this is just so amazing. Your work impresses me every time.

Really nice work as always, and a bold venture away from the kinds of stuff you usually make.  I love the sky and its reflection most of all.

I can see a masterpiece.

Going in the inspiration folder.

(Sorry to whoever first thought of that, it's an awesome idea.)

H Drazelic,

just came across this thread,

some random thoughts,

First thing that stands out for me and its present in the origional image is the perspectives on the alien ship,  seems off in places and some of it looks a little flimsy, just some small things.  i like the idea of it though, nice.

the nebula effect effect in the sky is very strong, a bit distracting, i would calm it down a bit. Also i would have made the moon/planet a lot bigger and had some of it slightly behind the peaks on the right hand side.  Also parts of the sky is very dark, darker than some areas of the foreground,  i would have kept some luminence in the sky and added darker areas to the foreground.  it currently feels a little backward.

Also as gecimen pointed out the reflections in the water dont match up with whats above, little things like these loose credibility in in the scene.

the perspective in the rockface on the left is off.

the rays eminating from the fire are a bit harsh and the light from it should cast a bit further to the right on the objects.

Id expect some stronger highlighting on the rockface on the right hand side of the screen being cast from the moon and nebula.

the palette is a little limited if thats yer plan, thats cool but id define\seperate the water and ground a little clearer in the foreground its cool to have them merge more in the distance.

anyway,  yer making great progress, keep going :)