Well, just confirms what you’ve been telling us all along ( 2D is NOT your strong point )
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yes i'm damn'd proud of this work as its taken me 2hr30min to complete from start to finish i'm absolutly knackered.
The amount of time it takes to produce art work is no real reason to be proud of it. Most people get proud of their results, NOT how long it took.
Now don’t take this as a flame attempt …… This is my critic of your art work ( and before you cry… How can I critic… I have been producing art work for longer than you have been alive )
Your initial sketch is not that bad…. It’s what you done after that needs attention.
As it stands, the finished results look like a cut cardboard out place in front of a tree photo.
Your biggest floor is leaving an outline around your lizard ( that’s what makes it look like a cut out ) This is good for cartoon characters etc, but not good for what you are trying to achieve.
First, you need to loose the outlines. The best way to achieve this is when you select a portion of the lizard to be air brushed….. make sure you have antialias turned on, then colour + shade your work, but with NO outlines. You need to “blend” your air brushing work and avoid just colouring it in.
The trick to making decent looking 2D is the attempt to make it look 3D. That’s why people have been adding shading and shadows to 2D art work for 100’s of years … in an attempt to put substance and depth in there work ( there was no 3D + rendering at the time )
Once you learn this fundamental principle …. Your 2D art work won’t look so flat.
Your next mistake was using a photo of a tree….. now you just made the whole scene look like something from Roger Rabbit.
You should have used the tree as a reference…. And air brushed over the top of it with you own design of bark. Or even flood filled a complete bark texture over it ( as long as it wasn’t a photo texture ) then just added the highlights and shading.
But anyways…… as you always admit that 2D is not your strong point, this isn’t a bad effort.
Whether you listen to anything I just said, don’t really matter …….. this is my honest critic ( from my 28yrs experience ) of your 2D art work.
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