Thread: Stomping Tantrum

Repost from BMG! Going for a Cubone (Medium). Sometimes the full moon brings out the worst in you.

Claiming!

@VeloJello; Done!

Wow! I don’t have a ton of feedback to give here, since the image looks so great, but there’s one topic I want to spend a little time on.

This image has a couple of major strengths. For one thing, the way you’ve posed Cubone is amazing. You can really see the flow of motion all the way from his tail into the end of his weapon. What’s even more awesome is the way the lighting perfectly follows the contour of his body. It really makes Cubone stand out from the rest of the picture! The red moon in the background stands out really well, too, as it’s quite bright and beautiful.

On that topic, though, the overall image is fairly monochromatic. Other than the red in the moon and the slightly warmer tones in Cubone’s body, most of the image is different shades of a muddy brown. I say ‘muddy’ specifically because it’s definitely a darker brown that looks like soil or clay, as opposed to, say, the lighter shades you might see in desert sand. Thing is, even deserts often have a little more variation in their topology—wispy shrubs, cactuses, etc. The ground in your image looks pretty good from a technical standpoint, I’d just like to see a little more detail. Where is Cubone, actually? The only kind of terrain I can think of that would have such huge piles of clay is, like, a quarry or something specifically meant for holding huge piles of clay.

The other thing I noticed is, for night-time, the image isn’t actually all that dark. The way you’ve got the moon positioned, it seems rather far away and tucked behind these huge mountains. While Cubone itself might still be illuminated from that position, I would expect the dark sides of the mountains behind him to be even darker. The redness of the blood moon probably wouldn’t reach the darkest portions of the mountain, so that would be a good place to break out some variations in color, like blues. That would help to break up the monochromatic nature of the image, and make Cubone stand out even more.

Overall

While I had a few constructive notes, the picture is really great overall, so Cubone is captured. I’d like to see a little bit of a greater variation of hues in your palette, but the way you use the colors you did choose is really wonderful.

Thanks for the curation! Admittedly, the idea of varying up the terrain didn't even occur to me here; I can see how it would help the variation of the background, as well as establishing some sort of setting (something I didn't really think about while I was drawing this, whoops!). Claiming my bone dino.