May Art Challenge - Vektor
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I disappear for a week to have some surgery done, and I come back to this! 
Glad you went with the more muted colors rather than greenish as others suggested. Any proportional errors I see on Picard are, for me, completely offset by your painting ability. I really love the color & light play on those metal/silver surfaces!
Glad you went with the more muted colors rather than greenish as others suggested. Any proportional errors I see on Picard are, for me, completely offset by your painting ability. I really love the color & light play on those metal/silver surfaces!
All over my mother's art studio, there were mirrors. Prospective students would comment that they felt there were in a fun house. Why does this woman need to look at herself from every angle? Well, of course, it wasn't herself that she was looking at. She tipped mirrors at all angles, including from the ceiling, to enable her to see whatever she was working on from every important angle without having to leave her chair.
This is a feature that should perhaps be added to painting software: temporary flips and tips without actually changing the image itself.
Anyway, I think anything else I'd add at this point, Vektor, would be frivolous. You've got shoulder blades now, so Picard clearly looks like he's walking away. The scale between the person and the discarded outfit looks somewhat more reasonable. The slight green tint of the Borg uniform clashes well with the bright (-er) red of the Starfleet uniform. His hands look real and convey the sense of emotion we can't see on Picard's hidden face. Yea, Picard's torso sways ever-so-slightly starboard, but so do some actual people, so it's not too terribly noticeable unless someone points it out. (Like me.)
What's more, I feel the space of this corridor, including the slightly cool air conditioning. There's not so much of a fantasy element here that I can't picture this as a real room, although perhaps the Enterprise-D corridors never looked this lovely.
I love that you went outside your usual element for this contest, Vektor. It shows your courage and confidence, which may be just as thematic of "freedom" as your painting. I'm reminded of what Jon Stewart said to George Clooney the first time he was a guest on "The Daily Show:" "Damn it. You're also smart!"
DF "Had Better Get to Practicing" Scott
This is a feature that should perhaps be added to painting software: temporary flips and tips without actually changing the image itself.
Anyway, I think anything else I'd add at this point, Vektor, would be frivolous. You've got shoulder blades now, so Picard clearly looks like he's walking away. The scale between the person and the discarded outfit looks somewhat more reasonable. The slight green tint of the Borg uniform clashes well with the bright (-er) red of the Starfleet uniform. His hands look real and convey the sense of emotion we can't see on Picard's hidden face. Yea, Picard's torso sways ever-so-slightly starboard, but so do some actual people, so it's not too terribly noticeable unless someone points it out. (Like me.)
What's more, I feel the space of this corridor, including the slightly cool air conditioning. There's not so much of a fantasy element here that I can't picture this as a real room, although perhaps the Enterprise-D corridors never looked this lovely.
I love that you went outside your usual element for this contest, Vektor. It shows your courage and confidence, which may be just as thematic of "freedom" as your painting. I'm reminded of what Jon Stewart said to George Clooney the first time he was a guest on "The Daily Show:" "Damn it. You're also smart!"
DF "Had Better Get to Practicing" Scott
Actually, it's quite easy to momentarily flip the canvas horizontally or vertically in Photoshop, it's just not something I am in the habit of doing.
The look of the Enterprise corridor is obviously stylized. This is, after all, a thematic depiction rather than a realistic one. This moment with Picard leaving the Locutus garb in a discarded pile at the end of a corridor and striding back into the light never actually happened, it's symbolic, and so is the lighting and overall mood.
I am feeling more confident with this type of work and starting to get a feel for some of the subtleties that have eluded me up to this point. I think I've always had some artistic talent, but I never really had the patience for most traditional mediums beyond pencil and paper, so the ability and the resources to work digitally have been an incredible boon to me. I only wish it had come along a decade or so earlier.
The look of the Enterprise corridor is obviously stylized. This is, after all, a thematic depiction rather than a realistic one. This moment with Picard leaving the Locutus garb in a discarded pile at the end of a corridor and striding back into the light never actually happened, it's symbolic, and so is the lighting and overall mood.
I am feeling more confident with this type of work and starting to get a feel for some of the subtleties that have eluded me up to this point. I think I've always had some artistic talent, but I never really had the patience for most traditional mediums beyond pencil and paper, so the ability and the resources to work digitally have been an incredible boon to me. I only wish it had come along a decade or so earlier.
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