[maxetormer]

well this the final version of my Jungle Book pic, i cleaned up the enviromet way more and changed the direction of the paws, i cleaned up the caracters a bit as well.

I learned some neat tricks about light this time =)
thanks to all the people that gave me your precious feedback =)

my progress thread:
http://forums.sijun.com/viewtopic.php?t=34418


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[Badgat]

I love it amazing work . but one thing that annoyed me was the size of the front lets of the panther , to me they need to look more powerful

[Matthew]

Hey

Really nice composition in this one but the panther looks to me more like a female Lion, just nitpicking thou cause the picture is very cool.
Keep it up :)

Matthew

[maxetormer]

badgat: thanks for the feedback =) i did some subltle changes on the front paws. =)

Mathew: he he yep it is a very a very personal panther, very very broad
panther =) thanks for likeing the composition =)
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[Light]

This is very good! It is very frazettish. I don't have any real strong critique opinions on this one.

But, I was inspired to try to do something with it so I made a "paint over" (I didnt even use tablet). I just mainly selectively altered the contrast/brightness.

I don't know if there is many improvements in the changes I made or not.. just looking at them but if you interested what I did:

* Selectively brightened/contrasted parts of the panter, like eyes, mouth, head, face, rocks, etc (I really like the head designs)

*lightened entire picture by using a gray layer

*added cool overs over the highlights to turn down the saturation

*added colors to tail a bit

*first tried adding black to tie the composition together more but couldn't get it to work so added the white stuff with clone brush

*I still thought it needed somethign on the right side.. pref red or something.. but something vague.. you will see red blobs added (and some blue/red from clone stamp) (like something being chased)

* selectively smoothed highlights on man, also toyed with adding more colors to him but didnt really work out

* when finished couldn't really be sure it was better so went back and adjusted entire contrast of picture, and pushed the saturation a bit further, also added saturation to select parts of painting

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Anyway, well its just another "take" on your painting which is very good. I need to check my monitor levels to see if my brightness and things are correct too.

http://light1.home.mindspring.com/copies/paint_overs/test1.jpg

Anyway, good work. The only things I really would say is maybe add something red or bright to the right of him, smooth him up a bit, and add a few grays in, and add a little more polish. But thats kinda what I did so you can see if you like it or not!!

[maxetormer]

yup nice, indeep analizis,
I just realized that i miss bended the colors on the drak area
you see i just turned off the light on my room and i have seen that there is a brown flat thing on the right dark side where there should be a very dark red-blue gradiet, so i re-bende the dark right area so that it would look ok.

(i like your paint over quite a bit but i have decide to leave the dark side of the image as it is cause it is a "jump into the darkess" so i wanted that void fell on the right side, thanks for the tips, not it is time to move one onto the next painting,
i guess it learned enought with this one =)

see ya =)
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