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Re(1): critique and advice? IP: 74.69.166.224 Posted on August 3, 2014 at 03:57:24 PM by LSVK
FIRST, I'MMA TELL YOU WHAT YOU DID RIGHT.
1. Overall color scheme (with exception of slightly goldenish bird skull behind the wolf) is super awesome. Everything looks as if it belongs in the same picture, with the same color darkness and "grey" feeling.
2. The pose you chose for the wolf is appropriate: it looks as if she's on the same plane as the land, meaning that her body doesn't look unnatural compared to the ground she's stepping on. She truly seems to be walking up toward the cliff face.
3. Birds in the sky look hella good!
SOME GENTLE SUGGESTIONS:
1. I can't really tell what technique you used to blend the wolf into her background, but it appears to be smudge . . . ? This is what I do to try and make my wolfies fit: I sharpen/soften the wolf first, so that it seems to be in the same focus as the background. Then I trim off all the unnecessary edges, like halos of fur, grass, etc. The edges of the wolf end up looking pretty stark, but that's totally fine. Wanna know why? Because after I have the barest outline of the wolf, I go through and smudge out--with the tiniest size brush possible--parts of the wolf that are fluffier than others. The ruff and tail? Smudge some little fur tendrils offa there! Those are the places where most fur halos happen, anyway. If the smudge tool isn't working, trying painting flyaway hairs with a lower opacity brush after choosing a color with the color-dropper tool. Once I feel the wolf is pretty well "blended" into my background, I duplicate it. The wolf, I mean. Then I apply Gaussian Blur to the duplicated layer, set that layer on "overlay," and play around with opacity until I like what I see. (Doing this gives the wolf a dreamier, artsier quality that somehow also blends it better into the background.)
2. If you can, get rid of that bird skull behind the wolf. Or tone down the goldenness.
And check out this tutorial for backgrounds (Ponybox has GREAT photomanip advice!)
http://www.ponybox.com/news_details.php?id=2466
and
http://www.ponybox.com/news_details.php?id=2222