@Phil - Concept art WIP

This is my concept art for my light house that I'm currently working on, I feel that it's going great but still feel that there is something not right with it. I am still trying to workout how to show the art style that I've choosen in my concept so it does look a little messy in places.

I want to try and know where I'm going with this image before I start working on the other concepts properly.

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  1. tutorphil10:29 pm, February 16, 2017

    Evening Rhia,

    The issue is 'texture' - and this is coming from your choice of Photoshop brushes and your own 'mark making'. That said, Photoshop is nothing but flexible, so something you could try with this image to 'rough it up' a bit and get some of that painterly-ness into it is to exploit the software's other tricks.

    A quick experiment: make a duplicate later of this image, so you've got one image on top of the other - now 'turn off' the new duplicate layer so you can only see the original one again and make sure that you've selected the original layer so you can work on it. Now go to the Filter Gallery and select 'Poster Edges' and have a fiddle with the slider controls until you start to get some textural black marks etc on your original image - you should be quite bold. Okay - make those changes and then click the top duplicate layer again so you can see it again - so the changed image should now be hidden under the 'unchanged' top image. Now, select the eraser tool and select some nice textural brush and scale it up, so it's big and not too tiny and fiddly; now take the opacity down so you've got lots of control and and can 'erase' nice and gently. Now, start to 'erase' the top image of the lighthouse to allow the copy image below (with all the textural stuff) to come through - use the eraser brush to pick out bits of detail etc, so use it to define the lighthouse a bit more etc. Once you've done this and you've got some nice stuff happening - flatten the two images and repeat the process again; make some big painterly changes to the bottom copy and then use the erase tool to bring these changes into the top image. You might want to try using a blurred version of the same image and 'painting' this blur into the top image - to create distance and softness in the background etc. Sometimes, remembering that the 'erase' tool is a paintbrush can be a transformative fix. The real fix is to do with getting better at 'painting' digitally - but there's loads of recipes for getting what you want - I've just emailed you a quick 2 minute mock-up of your lighthouse following the stages above - it's no work of art, but hopefully you'll have some fun of your own.

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    1. Rhia Crouch - BA (Hons) Computer Animation Arts, UCA Rochester1:09 pm, February 17, 2017

      Thanks for the advice I'll have a go at it. Sadly I didn't get your email of the examples, unless you didn't send it to my ucreative email.

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    2. tutorphil5:04 pm, February 18, 2017

      Hi Rhia - I sent it to your non-creative email... did you find it there?

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    3. Rhia Crouch - BA (Hons) Computer Animation Arts, UCA Rochester9:36 am, February 20, 2017

      Yes, I've got it now.

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