~WelshBlue~ *Tears of a Clown pg 31 ...

~WelshBlue~ · **Posted:** Tue Jun 09, 2009 10:38 am

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drakaan · **Joined:** Mon Jun 25, 2007 4:27 pm **Posts:** 582

I have a general comment...

wow :shock:

That's some pretty impressive stuff. Only person I've ever seen make anything that nice-looking with Paint.NET is Ash :ash:

, and that's saying something!

I'm especially interested in the gears, dart board, and ship-in-a-bottle, but they're all great, and I can see you have some tried-and true techniques for some of the textures and lighting effects...I look forward to you winning a contest and doing a tutorial!

Sidneys1 · **Posted:** Tue Jun 09, 2009 2:10 pm

Nice! Great gears, mind making a tutorial?

Have a nice day,
~Sidneys1

Goonfella · **Joined:** Mon Jun 23, 2008 9:25 pm **Posts:** 1035

Even though I regularly see your work on the official PDN Forum I still can`t fail to be impressed . Your work is excellent no matter where you look at it! :wink:

~WelshBlue~ · **Posted:** Tue Jun 09, 2009 9:22 pm

Thanks Goon' ... nice of you to say so mate, and I enjoy your work too; after all ... you were the inspiration behind the phone up there ^

Thanks Sidneys' ... I think it's about time I wrote a tut' so if Ash doesn't mind me linking to this 3D chrome I couldn't do it without these steps ... then yeh I'll write a tut' for it

Thanks drakaan ... your kind words flatter me, maybe one day you can mention us both in the same breath :lol:

I must admit without Ash's tuts' I wouldn't have achieved so much. Not brown nosing - fact :wink:

I'll try and write a few tuts' and become a useful participant here.

Off to have a proper look around ...

HELEN · **Posted:** Thu Jun 11, 2009 1:37 am

Like Goonfella said, your work is awesome!

I never get tired of looking in your gallery.

Ash · **Posted:** Fri Jun 12, 2009 6:06 am

~WelshBlue~ wrote:

if Ash doesn't mind me linking to this 3D chrome I couldn't do it without these steps ... then yeh I'll write a tut' for it.

No, I don't think he minds. :wink:

Link away.

~WelshBlue~ · **Posted:** Fri Jun 12, 2009 11:19 pm

Thanks Helen ... you glossy queen :lol:

QFT

Thanks Ash ... Tutorials now posted

Catch the Pigeon WIP

100% PDN so far.

drakaan · **Joined:** Mon Jun 25, 2007 4:27 pm **Posts:** 582

Looks good!

You reminded me of something I made to honor barkbark00...

Lance McKnight · **Posted:** Sat Jun 13, 2009 12:22 am

Very cool. I noted that you reused your pigeon from your UFO invasion picture. That's a good way of "recycling" art without the redundancy of recreating from scratch. Very good job.

Only thing I would work on some more is the shotgun. The stock is floating free from the barrel. There's no trigger, and I'm wondering if it's a WIP?

Ben_R_R · **Posted:** Sat Jun 13, 2009 1:04 am

Impressive! Your work shows excellent technical skill, as well as a good grasp of the fundamentals of light and shading. Some areas I think you could improve on are composition and color usage, your images tend to be discontinuous, the individual elements don't mesh well with each other. I think particularly a more unified color scheme might help with that. Take a look at this tutorial it's a pretty good introduction to color theory.

I hope my critique does not fool you, I think you have a lot of talent, and I'm looking forward to your next image!

~WelshBlue~ · **Posted:** Sat Jun 13, 2009 12:36 pm

@ draakan ... thanks ... and that cartridge is perfect . Sweet job on that. Good thing I've still got mine as a pdn file to work on :wink:

@ Lance' ... thanks ... and there was me thinking nobody would notice the shotgun :lol:

Yep it's all very much a WIP, a lot of blending etc to do yet ... and finish the shotgun now :wink:

@ Ben R_R ... thanks, and thanks for the critique. Now I know why my wife won't go out with me when I'm wearing my orange trousers, pink shirt and yellow tie :lol:

Before finding PDN, the last 'art' of any sort I've attempted was when I was in school <cough> 27 years ago <cough> And then my teacher was either chucking things at me or telling me the only thing I'd ever draw is a pair of curtains !! I know I've got a tendency to put a lil' bit too much into some pieces ... just how my mind works. Weirdly

Thanks, I'll check out that tut'

~WelshBlue~ · **Posted:** Sat Jun 13, 2009 8:56 pm

I wasn't sure whether to edit my last post or if there's like an Image Hospital here ... sorry if it seems I'm bumping my own thread :oops:

I'm struggling with this:

If anyone has any suggestions how I can improve it I'd be most grateful. Getting very close to scrapping it and starting again :roll:

HELEN · **Posted:** Sat Jun 13, 2009 9:06 pm

I don't know the names of this shotgun, but right underneath the gray part, make it a little darker. That way, the metallic part of the gun will stand out more from the wooden part. Do the same thing with the tiny metal part next to the handle to the right. For the bolts/screws (whatever you call them), what you need to do is add a Drop Shadow so they would look nested into the shotgun.

I think you got the shadows nailed down pretty well already.

I also think that it looks really cool anyhow. It has a nice texture and colors are realistic. Nice job!!!!

~WelshBlue~ · **Posted:** Sun Jun 14, 2009 12:47 pm

Thanks Helen ... I think I'm going to close the file for a few days and approach it with a fresh mind. I had a eureka moment last night of something else I want to do ... which if I get it right, could be quite

(A big IF

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