Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: WIP: Critique Needed

darthuv opened this issue on Jun 15, 2006 ยท 7 posts


diolma posted Thu, 15 June 2006 at 5:15 PM

OK - a critique....(Not that I'm any sort of expert!)

When I 1st looked at this pic, my eye flew to the big b/w head. It then travelled down the hair(?) on one side of the picture and out into limbo.
Back again, through the head, and out and down the hair(?) to the other side, and again out of the picture...
Back again. Look at Big Head. Notice "blank eyes"

Break.

When I had recovered from that, I looked again. Found the figure below. Followed the gaze of the smaller figure - to end up exiting through the bottom of the picture.

For me, (and of course, I speak only for myself), the composition doesn't work. It's too fragmented, and has conflicting points of interest.

My suggestions (offered, I hope, in the spirit of improvement - not that I could have done better):

  1. Reduce the impact of the top (B/W) figure by fading it down a lot more (so it's more shadowy).
  2. Change the hair(?) such that it doesn't lead stratight out of the composition, but leads the eye to the figure below.

(Possible 3. Tilt the face of the BW figure so that it's looking down towards the 2nd figure.)

There needs to be a context here. Is the 2nd figure conjuring the BW figure? Dominating it? Being dominated by it? The relationship between the two (and the viewer) isn't at all clear.

The picture is well constructed and well executed in technical terms, but any impact is negated by lack of any meaning...

At least, that's MHO...

Hope that helps:-))

Cheers,
Diolma

(OTOH - If you like it as it is, then, as said above - it's done..)