Sci Fi Officer Character Crits Welcome

cstephens4 2017-06-22 15:31:54 UTC #1

I'm attempting to make progress painting characters in environments which I have found to be more difficult than just painting a portrait. I'm reservedly happy with how the characters outfit turned out. I feel like I could have handled some parts of the face of the character differently, posing/proportions issues and handled the environment differently by adding more detail. I'm happy and welcome to hearing crits of this piece!

cstephens4 2017-07-01 22:23:37 UTC #2

Had another go at this one. Still looking for feedback!

Juhana 2017-07-02 11:56:30 UTC #3

Did you use references? At the moment she looks a little flat. Try to sift hue to cooler color and saturate it a little. For me personally its little hard to read how arms coming from that shoulder piece.

cstephens4 2017-07-02 20:07:27 UTC #4

I hadn't used any references for this one. Thanks for the helpful critique and advice!

ragecandy 2017-07-02 21:35:23 UTC #5

Your biggest problem aside of anatomy/form issues are the values, I'd reccomend you to work on black and white for a while, in general you need to use darker darks, I did a super quick overpaint just to show you my point, se how in the original version shadows are almost the same value as midtones?

cstephens4 2017-07-04 02:45:47 UTC #6

Wow man thanks for taking the time to do this! Not pushing dark values is a really bad habit of mine.