ART WAR | 2D | "The Eternal" | horizondweller

[s-stark]

Ohhh bummer about the crash. D: For future: be paranoid to the point where you continuously Ctrl+S every five-ten min. Forever. Abuse that keyboard.

Agree with @Steve_Kim about the atmosphere though, the colours feel too bright. I want to get a dark foreboding feeling from this.

[mandyberryart]

beautiful colors, texture, panels, everything! teach me your ways!!! Any advice for me and my character?

[oten]

I'm 99% sure you won't disappoint me ^^
Just have fun painting it, and it'll be great

I need to refine almost everything in my illustration yet.. I don't think that I'll do something as spiky as xehanort's keyblade, but I'll think about it, thx

Aaaaand, yeah, I can't tell you more than "spam ctrl + S" xD
I even have a shortcut for this shortcut 8D

[Crayvv]

Woah such a bright artwork here! I love that, Ive been looking for illustration that are clear blue sky bright and here it is! For the sky effect thats really cool, the characters look amazing but it need darker values and a bit of contrast! Thats a really good idea btw to post little parts of the illustration, makes us stay and be curious all the time! Amazing work man!

[HorizonDweller]

Yeah, it pissed me off a lot but the ting is that i usually save frequently but i got so much into this piece that i forgot to save, i mean i eve forgot to eat

[HorizonDweller]

ive been looking around for something as a third program or a plug-in for autosave within a determined period of time but i have not been able to find anything, if you know something please let me know (kind of like the zbrush autosave)

[oten]

Sorry, but I don't know if there's a plug in like this...
I'm used to save each time an episode of the anime I'm watching is over ( so each 20 minutes, more or less ) maybe you can do something like this as well ^^

[albek]

Great design work. Love the feeling of majesty in the early sketches. Really like the initial palette too

[HorizonDweller]

UPDATE !!!!
Hello everyone, I am sorry for the recent inactivity, I had some sofware problems (Photoshop Crashing) and technical ( windows not recognizing my hardware)
I had to make some drastical changes on th illustration that may make me start over again, I'll drop some pictures below , its not good quality but is something. I promise thet the good quality and systematic updates will be back really soon

as you may see i changed he sky and with it all the lighting and colors...

[oten]

He is cute 8D

Nice job, I like the colors ^^
Hope your problems are over for good! xD

( and, omg, it's the legendary "photography of your screen"! I though they were extinguished !! xD )

[HorizonDweller]

When your PC , tablet and internet don't want to collaborate you have to go back to the old ways hahah 😂

[HorizonDweller]

January 10 Update

After some technical problems and radical changes i had to re-do the work but here it is. Periodical updates are back and today i'll leave a couple of them all at once, dont forget to comment and leave some feedback , critiques and comments are welcome.

whole picture (this is a basic version and my be subjected to changes of any types, such things as shadow, specular, reflections, particles and fx have to be added yet)

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[Crayvv]

This is soo cool! I love the busy composition, really brings out the chaos you know! And the detials on each soldiers is insanely morbid too, so badass! Keep it up man! btw I really love the color too

[HorizonDweller]

Thanks @Kreyhardt I'm relatively satisfied now with the color choice now, but there is a lot to be done yet, if you notice there is no shadow casting, gloss or other elements, I have a lot of hope in this piece. I trust it won't let me down , at least I'd have learned a lot from this experience and btw , I took a look at your work , the growth and development is amazing , really good jobo

[Pregium]

Hey, nice design, but i think you're losing depht with the right side of the image in the illustration, i see a lo of effort on the piece but i sense you tend to skip all the perspective and composition part because you can't wait to paint details... my advice is take a step back, breathe and do the boring stuff first of all. think of a focal point and a trajectory you want the observer follows, and build everything around it, play with contrast and stick to the perspective, the less stuff there is, the better it will be (LESS > more). i think the green composition was much more effective, and you lost yourself with the complexity of the last one a bit.
if you still decide to go with the red one i would recommend to overlay silhouettes and shapes more.
hope it helps! keep pushing

[HorizonDweller]

Thanks @Pregium , your comment certainly made me think. What you said is one of my greatest problems right now, i tend to get absorbed by the piece and i forget to dedicate some time to other elements, the color question is halfway there, that red is just a base color for now. I Will fix intensity ,saturation etc etc
I have an image of the construction of my piece, if you don't mind, would you tell me what do you think? I will leave it below.

[HorizonDweller]

Update. I've been finishing some characters and fixing smaller issues, once i render everything i will start adding other stuff as atmospheric perspective, glow, dust , particles , lighting and shadowcasting.
Leave your feedback and remember, comments and critiques are welcome

[Crayvv]

No problem dude Yeah I like the color very much! Im sure you'll meet your expectations! Since you already know what are missing, then you can address those and yeah your piece will be awesome! And thank you very much man! I appreciate that a lot