I made a really really ugly stupid one in class that looked like absolute crap so i made this one instead on my own time. i totally forgot to take process shots but i didnt use anything fancy, i just blended all the pieces together.
It looks really good, but I am curious to see some process shots because I'm having a hard time distinguishing what was painted in and what was spliced photos. Also, it looks rather crispy- I'd recommend blurring the backdrop or using simpler imagery, that way the foreground is in focus and the rest of the image recedes appropriately. Fantastic colors, though! The blues and greens of the river really play well off the Autumn brush.
This looks really good. I'd play around more with the dodge and burn tool to help out with unifying the lighting. All of your pictures have a light source coming in from different directions, so it doesn't feel very realistic, but the blending and merging of the photos is really good.
I like the bluish area in the middle of the trees in the foreground and the mountains at the back-- I would love to see it stretched a little bit more into the foreground, so it gives a little bit more breathability between different grounds. This pieces is a little jam-packed full of information that smoothing it out or having a variation between small details and large areas of space would make it a lot more readable. I also think that painting more would help a lot. Where is the eye supposed to travel throughout the piece-- You could literally paint the path that it should take and then focus on that area and send everything else back a little bit.
The photographs blend together extremely well! This is a beautiful composition and will look great as a painting. Those colors! Just imagining what can be done with this is exciting!
Its really impressive that this was pretty much all photos, and that there wasnt really any painterly quality in it, but you still blended all the photos incredibly well. I'd maybe add a touch of green to the water in the front on the right side so that it seems cohesive, but thats about it!
I think you did a really good job at making a believable composition and color palette. I would suggest painting around the edges of the photos and somewhat into them, depending on how painterly you want to go, just so that we don't see that glowing white aura effect that is present in some of the images you used, namely the foregrounds rocks.
Like the others have said, the blending is pretty good all-around. I think what would really 'make' this piece would be some evident textured brushwork to help unify lightsources and colors.
The juxtaposition of color in this piece is really strong the way, especially the way it seems to crash into itself even though this is such a peaceful looking scene. I would just quick check the mountains in the background and see what kind of adjustments could be done to make it a bit more hazy than the rest of the piece because right now it looks super clear to the eye.
This has a really awesome, vibrant palette! I really like all of the imagery you put into the final piece - I think the scales that you are working with also help make this a piece that is believable, and we can explore it through the way that you've placed each section. One thing I like a lot is the transition from the multi-colored forest to the mountains. I think that it's nice to see them a bit more desaturated, -- I know we always talk about this (as the air gets in the way between you and the furthest point, it always makes such a nice, desaturated, and similarly valued background!). I think if you wantd to make it even a bit stronger, I think you could add one more layer and create some shadows using "overlay" in the layers palette. That means that you could paint with a darker color (black even) and then change that layer to "overlay" and it would deepen the color and make it a bit more contrasty. I'd only do this on the big rocks in the immediate foreground, or things that are really close to us! Great job on this one! (I wish you had some process, too bc It'd be great to see how you did this!)
It looks really good, but I am curious to see some process shots because I'm having a hard time distinguishing what was painted in and what was spliced photos. Also, it looks rather crispy- I'd recommend blurring the backdrop or using simpler imagery, that way the foreground is in focus and the rest of the image recedes appropriately. Fantastic colors, though! The blues and greens of the river really play well off the Autumn brush.
ReplyDeleteThis looks really good. I'd play around more with the dodge and burn tool to help out with unifying the lighting. All of your pictures have a light source coming in from different directions, so it doesn't feel very realistic, but the blending and merging of the photos is really good.
ReplyDeleteI like the bluish area in the middle of the trees in the foreground and the mountains at the back-- I would love to see it stretched a little bit more into the foreground, so it gives a little bit more breathability between different grounds. This pieces is a little jam-packed full of information that smoothing it out or having a variation between small details and large areas of space would make it a lot more readable.
ReplyDeleteI also think that painting more would help a lot. Where is the eye supposed to travel throughout the piece-- You could literally paint the path that it should take and then focus on that area and send everything else back a little bit.
The photographs blend together extremely well! This is a beautiful composition and will look great as a painting. Those colors! Just imagining what can be done with this is exciting!
ReplyDeleteIts really impressive that this was pretty much all photos, and that there wasnt really any painterly quality in it, but you still blended all the photos incredibly well. I'd maybe add a touch of green to the water in the front on the right side so that it seems cohesive, but thats about it!
ReplyDeleteI think you did a really good job at making a believable composition and color palette. I would suggest painting around the edges of the photos and somewhat into them, depending on how painterly you want to go, just so that we don't see that glowing white aura effect that is present in some of the images you used, namely the foregrounds rocks.
ReplyDeleteLike the others have said, the blending is pretty good all-around. I think what would really 'make' this piece would be some evident textured brushwork to help unify lightsources and colors.
ReplyDeleteThe juxtaposition of color in this piece is really strong the way, especially the way it seems to crash into itself even though this is such a peaceful looking scene. I would just quick check the mountains in the background and see what kind of adjustments could be done to make it a bit more hazy than the rest of the piece because right now it looks super clear to the eye.
ReplyDeleteThis has a really awesome, vibrant palette! I really like all of the imagery you put into the final piece - I think the scales that you are working with also help make this a piece that is believable, and we can explore it through the way that you've placed each section. One thing I like a lot is the transition from the multi-colored forest to the mountains. I think that it's nice to see them a bit more desaturated, -- I know we always talk about this (as the air gets in the way between you and the furthest point, it always makes such a nice, desaturated, and similarly valued background!). I think if you wantd to make it even a bit stronger, I think you could add one more layer and create some shadows using "overlay" in the layers palette. That means that you could paint with a darker color (black even) and then change that layer to "overlay" and it would deepen the color and make it a bit more contrasty. I'd only do this on the big rocks in the immediate foreground, or things that are really close to us! Great job on this one! (I wish you had some process, too bc It'd be great to see how you did this!)
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