My July Progress | Criticism Greatly Appreciated

I'd like to start off by saying how much I appreciated all of the advice and opinions from my last post. All of your recommendations have made kept improving my art a little bit each time, so thank you everyone.

My first artwork of July is a remake of my first artwork I uploaded last month. I'll upload them both at once for you all.


Old Artwork


New Artwork



Artwork 7/10/13



Added some After effects on the c4d text


Please leave any constructive criticism for improvements on my artwork. The more detailed comments the better I fully understand your points of view!
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Personally, I think you improved a lot. Although, it seems a little too basic. The background looks like you use some filters on it and the character has some glowing effects. It looks nice, just too basic. You could try getting some more paint effects on the background though.

 

I really appreciate the criticism, but I'll explain why I made the background so basic. The single paint effect gave the feeling of blurred smoke in the background, which gave a highlight to my render to make it stand out more. I've had trouble recently with blending the background to match the character and making the background too busy, making the render hard to stand out. The background is simple, yes, but I wanted to keep the sharpness of the render the focal point of the artwork, and let the background fade it away. Again, thank you for your criticism, I'll keep it in mind for my next artwork. =D

 

what i can see is you have improved by learning a fue teckneques/effects. dont get me wrong it is a improvement but you need to learn thr fundamentals of design. what it looks like is you just opened photoshop an started doing stuff, but we was all there one day.
here is a video i stumbuled acrost that my help you (i thank every one should watch it) http://vimeo.com/32944253 (it gose fast maby watch it 2-4 times to get all the info in your head good.
read this too: http://www.garrreynolds.com/Design/basics.html

 

New Artwork

 

this looks really flat 2d like. it looks like you just placed 3 images on top of each other. you got to blend them all together to make it look like 1 image. like make it look like every thing is sopose to be there. and what you are trying to do with this image will be really hard to accomplish, look at the 3 main images the background is like a water painting style, and then you got the 3d shattering render witch is more of a realistic effect, then you got a dragon that looks like it may of been drawled. so you are trying to mix 3 different styles together. try to be more careful when picking out your renders try to stick to 1 style.
and the white drop shadow looks out of place.

PS: im not trying to bash/hate on your work i just want to give honest criticism to help you improve.(if every one says oh that looks nice then you will stick to doing that, an you will never improve)

 

The second one that you have in your sig is awesome. It looks a lot better than your old ones.

 

I don't know what it may be, but the overall quality of every piece is very poor.

 

Please be more specific, I don't know what you mean by that.

 

Artwork I just made

 

I tried out making a C4D signature

 

you are defalentley improving. keep it up. now try to pay atenchen to the detail an perfect your style.

 

Very cool pictures,
but it seems the pictures are a little faded.
Maybe a little sharper.

 

What I'm trying to say is that every image looks blurred/pixelated as if it were stretched larger than it usually was.

 

I just added some after effects onto the c4d text.

 

your getting there keep working hard an keep experimenting.the more you make the more you will improve an learn.
what i have learned is when you fail you have learned more than you would have if you succeeded.