Good work man...
the man is very well defined and the clouds are excellent....

ei bird and clouds are cool

Ok,to be honest,I thought that you gonna work on this a bit more...And actually I think that you can make it better,but if you decided to finish it like this,it's your decision.I still think that the creases on the left side of coat don't look real and logical.Yuo could work more on his pants,dog and eagle's wing
Now the good things=) I like these clouds,they are beautiful,nice idea with dreamcatcherreminds me mine=)And I like the dreamcatcher in the sky -good idea,I'll climb someday there to hang the dreamcatcher
I'm not an expert in colors,but I think it's good.

kisses!!

People!IMPORTRANT QUESTION: does anybody think that the picture:
-looks unfinished
-not harmonious
-has bad textures anywhere
-has rough colour or shading transitions anywhere
-any details look "pasted" over the image, having non-harmonious
composition

'Bad' is relative. If you mean "have you seen better work than this", then yes, I certainly have. If you mean "is it hopeless", no, it is not, but it needs a good deal of work yet to bring its full potential out. The bright side is that it *can* work out to something good. There are no glaring killer mistakes in it.

As for the other questions about color-harmony-textures and such, yes, these are all the weak points. The tonal contrast is really weak, which is easy to see if you convert it to grayscale. It's mostly uniform, the two darkest spots are the man's hair and the dog's head, both of which should not be in shadow so they simply cannot be the darkest point - that's never found in the light. Which is the other problem; there is no consistent light here, there's just some lighter color put more or less where you think the light should be. Add more contrast, be bolder, figure out what kind of effect you want, where the lightest point is, where the darkest one, which side you want the light from, etc. Also pay attention to the light and dark masses interacting well, and enhancing each other's contour instead of splitting it. E.g., the cloud edge going across the dog's ear is a bad idea - it makes the ear tip "disappear" and puts the dark head against the dark cloud. Using a silhouette against the sky would be much better. The detailing in the moon cannot be seen without very close inspection, it's way too low in contrast. And so on.

As for textures, you have mostly airbrush around here. The shading is soft and vague everywhere, but the contours are sharp, which produces an effect not unlike a bunch of cardboard cutouts instead of solid form. It's a common mistake, but no less of a mistake because of it. Use some hard edges to define form where you need it; you cannot do it with soft gradients alone. This goes together with need for more tonal contrast. Also, you've got minute detailing in the sky but vast flat areas in the figures - which goes right against intuition. Add some feathers in the eagle's wings, subtle texture in the clothing and hair, indicate the fur on the dog, this kind of thing - you need something to suggest more detail in the foreground than in the clouds; more definite form won't hurt either - you've lapsed into vagueness in many places, the worst case I think being the wing. Wings have definite structure and underlying anatomy, they are not like flapping towels. Use reference if you need.

And color... you need some. You've got it all uniform, low-saturated, going into dull gray in many places. In a sense, this is false-color, where you need color to be the function of light. Part of it you'll get when you get the tonal contrast right, but colors you need to work out in regard to where the light comes from, what color and brightness it is, and how it interacts with the sky's ambience and proper color of the objects.

For a final tip, I would not put a figure facing right so close to the right edge of the picture. It produces an unwanted impression that the composition is crammed to the right and empty on the left. You might make the man look to the other side, but it would be easier just to move the group closer to the middle and see if that is enough.

Write me if you have further questions.

Good luck, keep working.

Yes indeed, it's very blurry.
try to avoid that

I certainly like this as a whole, Ilya. Perhaps the fur, feathers and metals need more finishing. Maybe a bit more colors. Good stuff though!

Wow Ilya. Awesome job. I love the textures in the guy's coat. I think you need to put more work into the details in the dog's fur and the bird's feathers. Nevertheless, I like it a lot!

Excellent job.

Wonderful Idea!

can someone make a tape recording of what arenhaus said and mail me it?

I am too lazy to read all this
nice work storyteller 'but' I think you need to put in just a little more time in this baby
just a tad more, detail in the dog and bird and maybe the mans face...

still good just needs some more TLC

kittyKat: "I am too lazy"

Yep! Work harder!

Great idea going here! Hmm.... I gotta agree muchly with what Pam is saying tho'. Just a little more detail, perhaps...

Still very good though

Wow great Idea

Very nice details on the man...Excellent expression on his face..great mood!
Carlos

yeah. Pam sum it up....

y fav part in this piece is certainly the clouds...i like the style used there. It works well. Also the pattern work on his jacket. the part i least like is the flatness of the coat *bottem half*. All round not bad though! Have a beer on me buddy!!

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Sean DOnaldson

The concept is cool.
But:
*the edges of his coat (especially the right arm's cloth) is too 'cut off'. It needs some colour tones to make it look like it's going around his arm.

wow great piece. I thin the wold and bird need a bit of work and maybe there needs to be a bit more strength in the colours, more bolder. but other than that nice work!

Great stuff Ilya. I don't handle CG so well, so I can't really crit... but I like it a lot all the same. Well done!

* Sorry I'm late on this one * (I think!)

Greetings... my friend.........

Well I like it Ilya, very nice work. Sorry for being so very late

Flowjoe

amazing,very nice work u made 10+

I like it. Very cool textures in that coat btw.

Very Good +9