[Showoff] Sunset

[Narudan]

Make sure to visit it on deviantart:

with some Filter tricks:
Sunset by ~tsa197 on deviantART


without:
Sunset v.2 by ~tsa197 on deviantART


My first Digital Painting, Tree inspiration from a GoMedia tut

Fullview please, its quite large

Also: Choose your favorite version

[worldslayer]

Narudan, you never cease to amaze me

[The Toxic Deer]

epic. just simply epic

[Xel]

Surprise Surprise... Its amazing!

[mkultra.]

The one with the filter effects looks a lot better.

[Reflection]

Brilliant work yet again Narudan. Keep it up.

[Krip]

What tablet are you on again?

[Narudan]

Wacom Bamboo Fun

i think its the best for beginner

[Whatshertoes]

Here comes the CnC

1) the tree feels very out of place, hard to place a finger on why, but it doesn't fit
2) you need to work on your lighting

Now to elaborate:
The area where the sun is seen rising in the valley formed by the mountains needs the most attention. With the sun behind the mountains JUST peeking out, the light would not spread so broad across the mountains until the sun has reached a higher point in the sky. Even if the sky was cloudy, the diffusion caused by the clouds would not create that much light spread. The mountains would also retain a great deal of their silhouette. In general sunrises especially new ones tend to be overall darker.

Lighting is just as important as the line drawing itself. Take some time to read up on the basics of light theory and study images of mountain or desert sunrises.

The good: Overall line work and color is nice

[Albedo]

The tree looks out of place because -

1. The lines created by the blowing of the willow tree's branches are contrary to the lines on the rock upon which the tree is perched.
2. The lines created by the blowing of the branches also suggest that the wind is coming from somewhere off camera.. leading the mind to believe that something is happening that we're not seeing. "The rule of leading lines".

[Chickensoup]

Looks great Narudan. Tree could be in a better spot, however.

[Mitron]

Very nice work there btw i like the mystic spot the tree is placed on ;P oh and the one with filetr looks better

[Narudan]

The tree looks out of place because -

1. The lines created by the blowing of the willow tree's branches are contrary to the lines on the rock upon which the tree is perched.
2. The lines created by the blowing of the branches also suggest that the wind is coming from somewhere off camera.. leading the mind to believe that something is happening that we're not seeing. "The rule of leading lines".

Thats all because i first drew the tree and then thought a background might look nice ^^

Also i used a different technique for the tree/rock

[Remahlól]

I like, I like very much.