2D Entries for Richard Dumont (Kraull)

Click for full-sized image		Milestone: Final Image Date Submitted: Monday, 16 May 2005 Title: The first spell Notes: Finally...!! Here is the final image. There is no big change from the last post. I've added some green tone at some places to get rid a little of the monochromatic hue and I've also adjusted some lights and contrast here and there. A real big thanks for all your support and great comments!! Your help have been very helpful and enrichissante. Take care everyone! Good bye! ^__^ CGTalk: CGTalk Thread | CGTalk Post
Click for full-sized image		Milestone: Final Coloring Date Submitted: Monday, 02 May 2005 Title: The first spell Notes: I think it's almost done. Since the last post, I've just played a little with light, I've also added some details and adjustment here and there. I guess I may be near the end. I'll wait a week before the final post, so if you see something weird in the image, I'll be glad to here about it! ^_^' CGTalk: CGTalk Thread | CGTalk Post
Click for full-sized image		Milestone: Coloring WIP Date Submitted: Friday, 22 April 2005 Title: The first spell Notes: Thanks again for your great support and comments! Since the last update, I've added some lights on the wood-like structure behind the characters. I've also adjust light on the witch. I hope I didn't change to much the ambiance. I guess the contrast, the composition and the colors are ok in general. I'll now begin to clean it up a little. I'll also add some highlights here and there, but I think it may be near completion. About the background, I'll work on it but I'll keep it blurry and sketchy. I'll make it suggest an environment, but I don't think I'll throw myself in details. I think it may be better, considering the theme of this challenge, to keep the eye focus on the main action (like some of you have comment me before:). Comments will be very welcome before I merge all these layers!! CGTalk: CGTalk Thread | CGTalk Post
Click for full-sized image		Milestone: Coloring WIP Date Submitted: Sunday, 17 April 2005 Title: The first spell Notes: Arctis, FlyingP, thanks for your comments. It's great to have fresh eyes to critic about the contrast and composition. I don't know if it's "punched" enough, but like you've said about the hierarchy, it helps to centralise the viewer on the main elements. It seems to me a litlle bit too saturated, but then, I'll clean it up at the end once I'll flatten this mess of lighting layers. Oh, and Arctis, look, there's a finger that have grown in the night... Magica! ;) I understand your point about the green spell. I don't think it makes the scene worse, but I think you're right that it changes the ambiance et the focus. It's less quiet and our attention is kept out of the main characters. It may be a bad thing in this case. I'll take again some of your enlightning comments guys anytime! ^_^ CGTalk: CGTalk Thread | CGTalk Post
Click for full-sized image		Milestone: Coloring WIP Date Submitted: Sunday, 17 April 2005 Title: The first spell Notes: Thanks a lot again for your constructive comments! I've finally begun to work on the spell. What I try to achieve is to get more dynamism in the composition and to enhance the feeling of magical power. I haven't decided yet what this spell would be. Less original would be the 4 elements. I rather prefer a spell that may bait some magic creatures (the flying green thing). The apprentice will then have to catch them in order to use them in some more complex spell or in the preparation of special items. If you have any more interesting suggestion... I'll gladly take it! CGTalk: CGTalk Thread | CGTalk Post
Click for full-sized image		Milestone: Coloring WIP Date Submitted: Friday, 15 April 2005 Title: The first spell Notes: First of all, I would like to thanks you all for your usefull comments! ^_^ Since the last post, I've tried to adjust things I had lost and things that wasn't working good which you've pointed to me. The hardest part I've faced was the anatomic problems. Working with masses and sketch is a usefull technic to work quickly, but when it comes to details, you have to make it work and there is not a lot of place for "approximation"... Sad! ^_^ All the problems are not still corrected. I'll have to work on the hands of the sorceress and on some parts of her hat I would like to see disturbed by the wind cast by the apprentice spell. On the apprentice, I would like to continue improving the costume (mainly the pockets which don't work ATM), and maybe also the face (if I've time). I prefer the previous version, the one that is looking down. Other than that, the shape and effects of the spell will need some work. I'll keep this for the end. Concerning lighting, the idea was to make the spell be the center of the scene with the 2 characters. So I've tried to push the light to its maximum of contrast and ambiance. The effect is not perfect, but this thing seems to glow now, compare with the previous version. It may be a little bit to saturated in some places (bad effects of color dodge...) but I think it's better than the last post. Last changement in the image, I've re-cropped it slightly to isolate a little bit more the center of interest. This scene is more about proximity than wide landscape, so I think that in this optic it may work better. Still a lot of work to do. It's time to solidify the thing by working on the balance of the image and its precision. Thanks again for your support! CGTalk: CGTalk Thread | CGTalk Post
Click for full-sized image		Milestone: Coloring WIP Date Submitted: Monday, 11 April 2005 Title: The first spell Notes: The main areas I've worked on since the last update are the hands of the apprentice and the stone structure of the environment. There are still some anatomic problems here and there I can feel, but it'll take me some time to fix them properly. I hate hands... Too complicated!^_^' Oh yes, I've also pulled back the elders head (thanks Arctis!), in order to fix the impression that her head was floating. I've also worked on the apprentice suit. I don't have any fix idea for the design, so I go with the try and mystake approach. CGTalk: CGTalk Thread | CGTalk Post
Click for full-sized image		Milestone: Coloring WIP Date Submitted: Thursday, 07 April 2005 Title: The first spell Notes: Since the last post, I've worked slowly on the contrast and the conception of some elements of the composition. At each step I've tried to make the scene easier to read without losing to much of the ambiance I liked in previous sketches. Some elements are stil unclear at the moment, like the second plan background, but I begin to know a little bit more precisely what I'll do. I've added some old roots instead of the rock shapes. I've also trade a little bit of yellow hue for an orange/red one. I think it makes the color of the scene more realistic this way. I've put some light emanating from the spell (which I'll work on later) in the hope of making the witch easier to read. Thanks again for your helpful comments! ^_^ CGTalk: CGTalk Thread | CGTalk Post
Click for full-sized image		Milestone: Coloring WIP Date Submitted: Friday, 01 April 2005 Title: The first spell Notes: I've continued to work principally on the colors for a couple of hours. What I try to acheive is to make the subject easier to read without losing to much of the ambiance. I have the impression I could squeeze a little bit more contrast here and there to make it more attractive... The hard thing to do is to find out where and how much. Concerning the design, I agree with some of your comments about the costume of the child which seems to be a little bit cheap... I'll work on that, promise! ^_^' CGTalk: CGTalk Thread | CGTalk Post
Click for full-sized image		Milestone: Line Art Date Submitted: Thursday, 31 March 2005 Title: The first spell Notes: At this stage, I'm focussing on the composition and the general color ambiance. I've also try to determine a little bit more the backgroung and the design of the characters. Though it's still quite messy with a lot of brush strokes very apparent, I'm beginning to build a context in my head and to know a little bit more what kind of characters I want in this work. The next step will be to work on the shape of the heads of the main characters and on their facial expression. I'll try then to refine the image equally to keep a feel of unity. That will be the challenge. Your quite welcome to give me your comments, bad or good, they are all useful. And if you have any technical questions, I'll try to answer the best I can. CGTalk: CGTalk Thread | CGTalk Post
Click for full-sized image		Milestone: Concept Sketch Date Submitted: Wednesday, 30 March 2005 Title: The first spell Notes: For this new challenge, I wanted to illustrate a relationship that may not be kind of new, but still interest me a lot: master and apprentice. I'm quite a big fan of all the things that imply magic and psychic powers, so here I go with a scene depicting an old sorceress teaching her young apprentice how to cast a spell. The context is still not clear in my head at the moment. I'll work on that... CGTalk: CGTalk Thread | CGTalk Post