Elidor by zoon
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Description
This is the original of the image on the top of the Vue 4 box.
From the novel 'Elidor' by Alan Garner.
Comments (12)
redinard
excellent !
MikeJ
WOW! Now this is spectacular!
Blue Max
A Classic image... this rendering is definately one for the books! Great job! Don't change a thing!
artistheat
Great scene
dcort
Awesome. The lighting is spectacular, and it really evokes a mood.
Fyrene
Very beautiful image. Great job!
archetype
Wonderful lanscape! Love it!
bernieloehn
This is great art - could be the first picture of a scifi movie!
dragonfly2000
Very, very well done.
zoon
It says at the top of all these comment lists 'Helpful comments for improvement', but hardly anyone ever seems to offer constructive critiscism on the forum. Its great that people like this picture, but here are my criticisms, seeing os no-one else seems to want to do it! 1) Right-hand end of the bridge, below this is a spur of rock. It looks awful, needs more texturing, appears to be completely different material to the rock it adjoins. 2) The foreground rocks are crap. They were chucked in at the last minute, as a sketch really. they look artificial and deliberatley posed in a amateurish way. I'll fix these problems soon. Please - CRITICISE - there are lots of pictures on this forum which are thrown together like lego, like painting by numbers - help htese people - criticise, helpfully, like it says at the top of this comment list.
SunDogDeb
Zoon - it's hard for people to criticize as your abilities exceed theirs. And if a newbie is criticized too often, they will quit. If you want a serious critique, I would look at your compositional point of focus -- what do you want your image to say? What is the important aspect? Currently the eye wanders back to the sun as all lines point that way -- is the sun the focus (as in the dawning of a new day) or is it supposed to be the bridge? (haven't read the book) Or if it's the castle ruins (you notice I come to this third) perhaps they should be emphasized more and the sun emphasized less - the ruins darker somehow and not so close to the top border of the picture that they seem in danger of falling out of the frame. The bridge and guardhouse(?) are more securely in the space. I wouldn't get so intense on textures if they are not the point of focus for your piece -- if you were doing a close-up of Grandma's handmade doiley then textures are critical but here the emphasis seems to be on the light effects (though perhaps the cliffs could use a little definition work - ledges, vertical crevices, better definition to areas of light and shadow -- they're a little "crackly" now). I wouldn't worry about the river rocks, they're not the focus and they do their job just fine as they are. Just remember, not everyone makes it onto the Vue box, so the apprentices are unwilling to critique the master. And just to annoy you, it's STILL a good picture! LOL!
Varian
You think those foreground rocks are crap? I think they add a lot of dimension to the image, and it would be a loss to remove them. What I would change is the position of the plenet; it seems odd to have it viewed completely underneath the bridge. I would move it higher in the sky, to where the bridge would cross over it about 1/3rd of the bottom. I love the bridge! I love the clouds in the sky! I love the colors! I love the way the light touches the rocks below the bridge! This really is an awesome image! :)