Comment on Wheatley Laboratories by Sketch-Zap
If I could give you one critique it would be this. I really do like your crosshatching, because I know it is a very hard thing to master. I think you have captured the spirit of it quite well, however I think you may have gone a bit overboard.
Some places the cross hatching looks kind of clumpy and it's hard to tell certain things apart because of the lack of value change. It's mostly near the top with all the cords and stuff where it's really clumpy like that.
I think it also would have helped if you gave the background a midtone instead of just making it pure black. It kind of draws back that machine (sorry I've never played Portal XP) and makes the left edge a bit harder to make out near the top, and then the left edge of the blue camera thingy near the bottom.
I really like how you added Wheatley, I think it does help to make the picture feel more complete. It would also look more complete if you added some other random machines, or even sort of a metal texture n the background. Even if it's just walls it looks more realistic than total darkness. They can even be really dark walls, though considering there is some sort of light source I don't think it would be completely black them.
I hope that helps somewhat ^^'
Some places the cross hatching looks kind of clumpy and it's hard to tell certain things apart because of the lack of value change. It's mostly near the top with all the cords and stuff where it's really clumpy like that.
I think it also would have helped if you gave the background a midtone instead of just making it pure black. It kind of draws back that machine (sorry I've never played Portal XP) and makes the left edge a bit harder to make out near the top, and then the left edge of the blue camera thingy near the bottom.
I really like how you added Wheatley, I think it does help to make the picture feel more complete. It would also look more complete if you added some other random machines, or even sort of a metal texture n the background. Even if it's just walls it looks more realistic than total darkness. They can even be really dark walls, though considering there is some sort of light source I don't think it would be completely black them.
I hope that helps somewhat ^^'
Ahhh I see what you mean. Hmm... Maybe I can redo the background. I think I understand what you mean, yeah, like maybe a midtone blue, something like this: [link]
And yeah, some of the hatching was messy because I was lazy and I stink at drawing straight lines on my tablet, haha....
And thanks! This did help. I like doing dramatic lighting, so I'll definitely keep what you said in mind.
And yeah, some of the hatching was messy because I was lazy and I stink at drawing straight lines on my tablet, haha....
And thanks! This did help. I like doing dramatic lighting, so I'll definitely keep what you said in mind.