Serious critique on Akins WIP
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@chrisaakins your fire place looks beautiful but it competes with Santa for attention.
It kind of looks like you could use more spread out characters to add some depth to the composition. Maybe a couple right inside the door or overlapping the fireplace, Idk. I agree that Santa looks like he’s leaving not coming. Maybe he could use more of a “surprise” posture.
Overall I think you have a good thing going. I look forward to seeing the end result. Good luck. -
Okay, how’s this?
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I fixed Santa’s position. Anybody see anything else?
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Made some last minute adjustments. Which is better, the brighter one or the more textured one?
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@chrisaakins I'm drawn to the candle that splits the scene in half. Santa looks better. I would see how it looks if you punched up Santa's color a little. Idk, it may be too out of place. Keep going!
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in my opinion its right now a bit messy and your main focal point which seems to be santa is challenged a lot by all the different things on the image. i would push the shadow/lights more, add rimlights and take the enviromental lightcolor into consideration to seperate them from him more.
here a quick messy rework to give you a hint at which direction i would push it to
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@Molambo I see what you mean. How’s’ this?
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Ugh I think I went too dark. Maybe this? I think I have been looking at this too long.
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@chrisaakins I like the candle lower.
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I think I’m done? I feel like it’s not good enough but I think I need to be done.
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@chrisaakins I like this one.
