Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: I need some feedback...PLEASE.... :(

kyrin opened this issue on Jun 03, 2000 ยท 17 posts


momodot posted Sat, 03 June 2000 at 10:56 AM

Hi. I don't know if I know what I'm talking about but here goes. Hands are right size but Jesus is way too small. Needs more tension in the collar shoulder area so bow the elbows less and let the shoulders down. Head tipped back is good but tip shoulders chest forward, it would look better and be more acurate. Head should be larger, almost exageratedly so, big head=nobility in iconographic terms. Try anti-"hero"ing (if you have P4) to make hi8m more emaciated and to emphasise the tension in the limbs (the old man body morphs at my site might help...) Fathers hands would benifit from fine creasing across knuckle holds and along fingers between joints. creases are tiny white line next to tiny dark lines lightly blurred. Bringout wood detail on cross, too uniformly dark, try making a woould texture, can be subtly but will eliviate the monotony of the cross surface a tad. Bacground is perfect thogh touch of noise would fight "banding" effect around hands etc. Overall, contrastrast is TOO low, but instead of fixing it with contrast/brightness in post production you should use level and bring the low to the first spike and the high to the last spoike and move the middle till you get a crisper tonality. Bring down the saturation everywhere but the wounds wher it should be punched up, boith hands and figure suffer from "Poser Tan" dark putty colored flesh, desaturate and lighten fixes it. Okay, Jesus was Jewish, where is the body hair? He doesn't need to be a gorila but he probably didn't shave his chest either. I have good hairy P3 and P4 and "swarthy" texture maps I snaged from a site no longer up, e-mail if you'ld like them. For that matter, when I use texture maps I find I have to desaturate them and then set the skin color to WHITE! to get descent "caucasian" skin. Make your text bigger and maybe subtly outline it, the highlights are fading into the background. Images look less painterly if you add barely perceptable noise (7%). Consider using a canvas texture (after which you can doo a simple add contrast) since canvas means art to most people, even in digital art. You grandma will be very happy you made this for her I'm SURE. For a chalenge you could try a pieta or a descent from the cross or an ascension. How about an enonciation for that matter. VERY exciting prospects, I'm not a Christian either but I saw fit to dedicate four years of graduate school to Christian art, a beautifull amazing tradition. You could look at the Morgan Illuminated manuscript for amazing subject matter like the storry of the man from Ephram in the book of judges. Someone should tell me if these nitt picky "crits" are not apreciated, as some of you know, I teach figurer drawing and portrait painting fulltime as my job and I think teacherly 24/7 :) Good luck Kyrin. Please show more work when you can!