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Skurwy, many of your pieces avoid actual fundamental studies in the human body, perspective and such for pixel finish, which of course you have. The only way forward is the hard way: great motivation for art pieces is great but you need to develop the dependable skills to capture them better. Human anatomy, figure drawing, perspective and spaces, especially scene construction! these are the fronts you should be working on if you don't mind me saying.
as i'm looking at it right now, i must admit you're totally right about the perspective -- i don't know what i was thinking, it seemed okay to just tile-copy the windows and get away with it. i guess i got used to my mental image of this piece instead of what came out of it in practice. anyways, the towers are supposed to be set in the same scene, just further away. i'm also worried by another quite noticeable mistake -- that guy's screwed backbone line gave him a little hump on his back. :) thanks for the crits!
metaru: sure, we should make more pieces concerning this topic, as this is really a vast field for exploration. i always loved that regional nationalism! :) cheers!
forgot to say, i get the concept perfectly. it helps that i'm in a particulary similar condition around here C:
I'm with Dusty... can't figure it out, even with what you said.
Is the guy on the right in a seperate place, or are the two views connected? I see a man spraying graffiti, with some rows of houses in a panel on the left, seemingly unrelated.
i wont lie, it really took me a while to get the perspective. at first sight i though these buildings were on a topdown perspective and because of that they looked extremely flat.
I guess this needs some proper explanation. If you don't see the title/content relation I'm not surprised, you'd have to be Polish to get it. There's a kind of diversity between Western and Eastern Poland, just as there's The American North/South distinction. We can assume the eastern part of Poland acts basically like the American South, and is mainly rural, relatively poorer, less economically advanced etc. . . There's more to this piece, though. Since ages, I've been waging a metaphorical war with Vital and from time to time as he posts something, I feel obliged to make my move. . . and here it is, my response to this one by Vital (currently inactive, hmm).
And as for the piece itself, the guy to the right is spraying pixelated graffiti while the silent city watches. . . If you was Polish, you would immediately spot and get the "meaning" of those buildings in the left part of the picture, they're the old modernist style projects, remnants of the former socialist rule there in Poland.
I hope this explains the situation a bit.
Manupix, thank you! Yes, you're right about the perspective -- I guess I took the cheater's way to do this, and just tile-copied the windows instead of painting one by one. The right wall is assumed to look frontal; again -- the easiest way to get around that. That was a quick pixel, after all. :) cheers!
Ipsen, thanks!
Sorry... I just don't get it :(
I can't make heads or tails of what's going on here.
Amazing colors, light and atmosphere.
Perspective doesn't work so well though. Bg buildings should have a vanishing point somewhere to the right: as we can assume the view to be from ground level, the lowest row of windows (behind the trees) should be horizontal, and the next ones progressively tilted.
Also the (otherwise good) choice of large pixels in the paint makes that wall look frontal, when it's probably (as composition demands) receding farther on the left side, and thus should use a vanishing point too.
No easy fix I'm afraid.
thanks, i do not mind at all :) i always remind myself to take up some studies on human anatomy, but you know how it goes -- i buy books, read tutorials but as soon as i get something right i kind of stop progressing further, "okay, now i can draw heads/hands/whatever pretty well, so i will manage to paint something new, ah screw those chests/legs/arms." you're right about those provinces, they're not my best, but i guess i need more motivation to get this going in the right direction. motivation is a wild beast and when you think youve caught her she suddenly leaves -- after a day or two of successful studies you get back to the status quo. any challenges are welcome if you have any on your mind! :)