Ravenseyes raven nest

[Ravenseye]

Dude muzz chill it was a sketch. Im still learning anyways. If I could immediatly be a brilliant painter I would be down but it takes practice and time. Here I tried useing your advice and tom scholes. Hopefully this is looking a bit better.

[Ravenseye]

A few half hour thumbnail sketchs. Also the characters are unproportional. I need to keep up on my anatomy studying.



painting I did tonight.

[muzzoid]

That last one is a real standout man!

Its got a strong composition and the colours are nice and juicy without being overly complicated. Keep that up man !

[Relym]

Do you use 2-point perspective or are your buildings all done freehand? I tried drawing some buildings using 2-point perspective, but yours don't seem to follow the same rules. They still look natural and real, but there are no vanishing points.

[muzzoid]

You can have multiple points on the same horizon line ya know... So say you have 2 turned boxes, they will just use different vanishing points.

[Ravenseye]

Exactly. Thank you guys for the comments. Yeah so with buildings you pritty much think of the vanishing points as multiples. If you made 1 box its going to look very simple. Yet if you shave off that corner your going to have a way more interesting shape. So then you take two more boxs and you mash them all together using perspective lines and you end up with some weird looking building. Yet if you can keep everything in perspective the buliding then has character. Unless  Im studying a photo refrence I usually try and make the building complex and weird. I find that when you are creating a scene it works better to change every buildings perspective points on the horizen line. Its only in modern society that we have turned everything into the cooky cutter one right next to eachother with the ability to bull doze and all that annoying boring stuff!!!! Hahah just keep practicing relym with various boxes on a horizion line.

[Ravenseye]

based of the sketch above

[Ravenseye]

4 hour paint out for tonight.

[Pieter]

Ooh! Last one is nice!

*nitpick* the color on the small waterfalls looks slightly to blue to me.

One tip I could give you if you want to advance further is to study architectural styles. Neoclassical, Gothic, Modernist, Egyptian, Greek, etc...
Get an art history book if you need. Trust me, a world will open up!

[the.crippled.dreamer]

Maybe it's the branches on the left, but the right side of this building looks a little top heavy; that could just be me though. I really like the colours and the inviting sense coming from the misty woods in the background.

[Ravenseye]

Thanks. Yeah your right pieter. I really need to start studying some other style architecture. ill research some tonight.

crippled.dreamer- I think its more that I gave the left side of the roof a curve so it makes it look akward. Im glad I just saw that!

Alright (later) Pieter Ive re-searched all of those. Give me some more to study. ... I got some indoniesian ... some bali ... i dunno what next thou.

[Pieter]

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architectural_style
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_architecture

[Ravenseye]

Thats my effing dood!

[Ravenseye]

One thing that pieter did mention along time ago was that I work more on interiors seince Concept artest should be able to excecute both interiors and landscapes. Seince he was so kind to post me some good architecture links i feel well im learning architecture I should do interiors of them as well. This was based after a refrence of the mudejar styled architecture. I feel it came out a bit more islamic as I put my own little touches in it. I definitly need to do some more work. I also tried keeping in mind various things I learned from my color theory course I purchased from CA.org so hopefully the colors in this sit well together

[Ravenseye]

another interiorish for tonight