Tuesday, October 26, 2010

In Progress... NuLich



The funny thing is, a year ago I'd consider this finished.
I have a fistful of unfinished pieces and roughs chosen to
bring to a finish as work proceeds on other stuff. Please
give your opinions and advice. I want this one to fulfill all
of it's potential and the old Chestnut St. studios crowd is
about as far removed as they can be in the continental US.

So I have to air my issues on the web, where process is recorded
for posterity. It's not very romantic, kind of kills the magic and
mystery, but it's what we have.

3 comments:

  1. Hi Eric! Love the lead dude - his hands are especially great. I think the one thing this piece could use is a sense of depth. Maybe use warm and cool contrasts to create foreground & background planes? My inclination might be to put a cooler cast over the foreground dudes so that our attention stays on the leader...

    ReplyDelete
  2. Thanks Mark! I'm working on finding a better way to manipulate temperature digital pieces. It's definitely something that takes on a life of it's own. I'll try it out!

    ReplyDelete
  3. Sometimes, simply desaturating your existing color does the trick. If you're using a lot of orange, for example, dialing the saturation all the way down gives you something that *looks* blue by comparison, without taking you out of your original color palette. I guess another option would be to throw in a cooler adjacent color, like a greenish hue... well, see what you come up with. :-)

    ReplyDelete