Digital Art Revisited!! I'M BACK, people!!

[DemonSorcerer]

Whoa, it's been a while since my last post!! greetings to all the forum members and to the mods (Sven, i hope you're still alive and kicking arses!!)

Can't spend any more time around the PC, as i started working in a local ad agency as a copywriter...loads of work, loads of fun, loads of almost anything...but i'm kinda enjoyin' it, ya know...i still play a decent quote of guitar, as i always find time to do the things i love (here i am, eh??)

Remember the digital art thread?? i just wanted to create the second go at it and share with the community something i made..also, i wanted to post a link for you to check a cover that i recorded in my bedroom...:P so enjoy the stuff, hope you like!! if you have any comments, feel free to post them, it's ok!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6sNjHZmfzw

I guess i'm slightly back...
David

[Teletubby]

its a leaf...with an eye!!!!!!


everybody run!!!!

jk

[DemonSorcerer]

Any other replies?? i guess you don't like digital art very much...but at least talk about the link??

David

[Blutwulf]

The sharp details of the striations on the leaf almost make up for the near-monochrome of it. Impressive merging of the eye and leaf (the eyelashes are fantastic). While it is professional grade and certainly a quality piece of work, it lacks one element to push it into a realm higher.

What the one element is, I cannot guess. A piece such as that demands that the additional element be more worthy than a sophomoric "splash of color." A ladybug walking nearby? Again, that would be a crude and expected attempt at an eye-magnet. Personally, I'd increase the contrast through deepening the shadow under the leaf, and increasing highlights. If monochrome works, then excite with contrast.

[DemonSorcerer]

Originally Posted by Blutwulf

The sharp details of the striations on the leaf almost make up for the near-monochrome of it. Impressive merging of the eye and leaf (the eyelashes are fantastic). While it is professional grade and certainly a quality piece of work, it lacks one element to push it into a realm higher.

What the one element is, I cannot guess. A piece such as that demands that the additional element be more worthy than a sophomoric "splash of color." A ladybug walking nearby? Again, that would be a crude and expected attempt at an eye-magnet. Personally, I'd increase the contrast through deepening the shadow under the leaf, and increasing highlights. If monochrome works, then excite with contrast.

Great reply and thanks for it, Blutwulf...you sound like a grahic designer or pro photographer...while i´m none of those options, i can understand what you mean...i know it feels kinda incomplete...i actually don´t feel sure about the typography...maybe it can be...tweaking that element....and about the ladybug...i just worked with only the leaf, because i wanted to aim for simplicity...just the needed elements to communicate what i was feeling at the moment...the death of creativity in the local advertising business...

But again, thanks for your constructive comments - i´m no designer, i´m a copywriter...i just know a few photoshop tricks to achieve photorealism and such things - and if you have some work to share wth me and the rest of the community, feel free to post your potfolio or some artworks that you´ve done in the past...i´d love to see your work...

Be sure to check the youtube link, i played marty friedman's Jewel and recorded myself...he, he, he, that's more fun than thinking and creating artwork...i'm a bit better at guitar playing, believe me...

David

[mattblack850]

Nice work David!!! Both the Art and the Freidman piece!!!