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rcardoso530 — Daredevil by david finch
Published: 2009-07-06 15:33:58 +0000 UTC; Views: 2438; Favourites: 14; Downloads: 276
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EDIT: version blue sky... okay talking with a few of you it seemed that everyone liked the dark version but for me it was hard to make the dark red sky work with DD dark red suite so with some great advice from i decided to change the sky color again. i know i know i can't make up my mind but to tell you the truth i think this background color works alot better than the red. so now that i am pretty happy with the sky color i going to start bringing in the clouds. tell me what you think and be sure to vote for your favorite and of course the one that is liked the most will be the one i continue to work on.hi all.... alrighty here is the piece that i am working on currently and though it is far from complete i thought that i would post so that i could get some critique and comments on my progress soo far.
i am torn between this sky color and one that i did with a more purplish/blue tones.... i know for the most part daredevil is another character that comes out at night but when i came across this piece it made me think..... that he is sitting up there on the rooftops just somehow waiting for the dark to come.... what you think?
i will up-dating offend on this piece until it is finished so i will say "sorry" now for the ahhh spamming of this one...
pencils by david finch
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med 2.0: [link]
dark 2.0: [link]
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Hey, I actually prefer the 2nd red sky version... the rendering on the figure seems a lot tighter and I know its bad colour theory to drop DD on a red BG, but a little desat to the red (almost to a mid greyish) would be fine. Again, i'd desat the blue in this too... I am the desat whore though and I cant keep it under control either, bad habit haha! They look rad though, but i'm for the 2nd variant
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lol...you know to tell you the truth i really did too. i yeah i agree with everyone that told me that like you said wasn't good color theory but i think that is was why i liked it cause it was different.
you know i started changing the different versions cause i didn't know how to make it right but after this piece completed i learned quite a bit on it. and it seems very simple after the fact but you know when you looking at a piece for a while....
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yeah, there comes a point after so much tinkering, that you know you've finished! When you adjust the brighness by -1... thats when you've finished haha! I always avoid going back to a piece now, just move on and take what you've learnt. Your definitely getting better quickly
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thank you very much.... and i agree i perfer not to go back cause it shows you where you have improved
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What you need to work on here are your values.
Go here and have a quick look.
I know I'm comparing yours to mine, and mine isn't the best example, but you can still see what I'm talking about.
You understand you can separate your picture elements by color--warmer elements tend to come forward, cool tend to recede. But, ignoring all that and converting your pic to grayscale you'll see your color values. In yours, Daredevil is almost gone in the pic. Your background, first, is nearly black, and the shadows on Daredevil are also nearly black. It's hard to see exactly where he begins and the background begins. Also, the highlights on him are nearly the same value as the highlights in the sky--all in all, too similar.
If you look at mine, yeah, both the figure and the sky are gray, but they are different shades. Even in grayscale the main figure is separate from the background--maybe not exactly at the top, but I'm sure you get the picture.
I don't know if you're using black to shade, but if you are then stop. Use your colors to give the illusion of darkness without actually going black. And, try to vary the amounts of darkness in the foreground and background. The main figure in this case isn't part of the sky, so you don't want to blend him into it. There's a waning sun in your pic, so your sky shouldn't darken so suddenly. And a night sky is never truly black, just shades of blue.
I know you've heard never to use white. Change that to never use black. Unless it is an instance where it is absolutely needed or the client requests it, don't use it. In printing, black in the colors tends to muddy and dull the print, killing the colors.
White--don't be afraid to use it, but use it sparingly. Understand that using white will desaturate colors that you brush it on--keep it in mind if that is the effect you need. A small dot/streak of white once in a while on something shiny or wet, like metal or the catchlight of an eye.
Whoo, now that's a lesson in a half.
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whooo ho.... lesson on brother
umm actually i have heard that on the black and white and no i don't use black i use a dark purple or blue, also possibly the reason he is soo dark is cause i used a very heavy texture on him....maybe that may effect him in this aspect. maybe not.
you know originally i wanted to stay with the red-ish sky that i did i just could figure out how to cool him down, that is until now woooohaahahahah i now know a cool cyan effect hehe, and was going backwards and =Zatransis suggested to change the sky to a blue-ish and see what would happen.
so i did but you know about the time that i got to this point i was kinda ummm lets say done with this one i have been trying and trying different stuff an hit that block. which i know i will get through but never-the-less i hit that i am absolutely done with this one so i posted where i was.... i know i know you aren't suppose to say that out loud or event type it for the world to see but it is what it is. looking back now i agree i should have umm feathered the blue up ALOT further until maybe the last quarter of the top of the sky. youi know i seem to have issues with going to dark don't really know why i just am drawn to the darkside (haha not meant to come out like that) of images but i do. i almost have to force myself to do day scenes cause they make me worry more about how things really look in full light...
i AM GRASSHOPPER...
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you laugh out loud but you know it's true... we all get to that point and for the most part i will push through but i chaulk it up to learning experience....
though my first concept of waiting for the night was a fucking bad-ass (hehe) and i was first (h a h a h a)
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haha...
you know what the old bull said to the young one though....hmmmmm
i just teasing
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Nice one!! no one said it would be easy, trust i know.
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so do you like the blue or the red better (sky that is)
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I like both of them, The Blue one brings it out more then the red does.
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cool ...i liked it better too
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