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Weekly Challenge: Greenless
I voted for this. There's something really mind blowing about the composition of this piece, makes me feel dizzy, like inversed vertigo. Well done!
Love those birds! So cute :) The tree and the birds looks great, but I really dont like those clouds, they really looks like blossom, they could use some depth and less details with a mid to larger flowy puffy feeling :)
You currently are using 14 colours, consider using the two extra colours you have at your disposal on the clouds? Looks great, still love those eyes :)
Actually I also thought the clouds were blossom at first glance on both versions but on closer inspection they are obviously clouds. It's a fantastic image.
I like 2x zoom the best, and definately the newer version over the first one. Great job, it looks fantastic!
Despite I hate continuing pieces I once considered 'complete' I just cannot ignore all this valuable feedback!
So I've redid the sky from scratch. I had to redo eyes, AA and some branches as well.
I hope it works fine now.
Tbh, I thought the clouds were supposed to be the canopy of a cherry blossom tree or so when I looked at it earlier.
I do really like the rendering of the animals/trunk though.
hmmm... my take on this (and I could be completely wrong) concerns the size of the cloud-structure. on top it should be bigger, because we're looking straight up. the further down in the image (=the farther away from us) it should lose contrast and get smaller.
btw, i love how crisp the eyes are and the POV in general is very interesting!
I see what muffin does and mentioned it in the forum when just a WIP. As far as I can tell this illusion happens because the clouds use 3 colors WITH contrast where 2 might be better or 3 with low contrast. Considering the use of dithering in clouds is almost always a good idea. By being lighter it will help the feeling of height by suggesting more diffusion and eliminate the minds' eye wanting to see a 'regular' perspective to compensate for the extreme view chosen here.
This fool pixel shows 3 color low contrast that relies on dithering to add depth.
http://www.pixeljoint.com/pixelart/36838.htm
Anyhoo, its all nitpicking cuz its great and should do very well this week.
As far as my first point goes, I have absolutely no clue as to how to fix it. The second point is because the clouds have as much detail as the tree/birds. If it were me, I would recommend either reducing the cloud count (and have the rest a plain sky-color), but then again, it is not my piece.
a) I tried hard to make clouds look like you're watching from behind. I'll try to improve on that but I doubt I will succeed on that.
b) I agree, but the only way to reduce distraction I can see is to reduce the contrast. I'll play with it more, but - again - I doubt I can make it better. :( Any ideas on this are welcome.
Looks like we have a winner, ding ding ding. :)
Great piece.
I think the clouds take away from this piece for a few reasons -
a) the tree has a distinct perspective, whereas the clouds look like they are viewed head-on
b) the tree and birds have very nice details and textures, but the clouds distract the viewer from them (I didn't notice the furriness until I zoomed in very closely).
Cool work, dude :) Also... uh... that's a lot of owls. At least for the tree itself. XD