February contest WIP

[TessaW]

While leaving it without a background is an option, I'd encourage you to play with the values and colors like so:

Use the color balance, levels, hue and saturation in your photo editing program to play around. Look at sunset pictures for color ideas.

Another couple of suggestions to play with:

1. Either remove the sun, or move the moon to be at a more diagonal relationship to the sun, to help with balance and focus.
2. Maybe add a little more of the night sky in the upper portion of the comp to help balance the scene.

I don't know if those changes would be effective, but it's worth playing with.

This is such a fun piece! Love it.

[ArtofAleksey]

This is very helpful thank you!

[chrisaakins]

@Aleksey I think you are missing the opportunity to let the night sky be more bird shaped in keeping your theme. Think of wings of the night kind of thing. I would think about adding some highlights on your figure to show the glint of the sun on its features and to emphasize its importance.

[ArtofAleksey]

@chrisaakins im not sure i follow with the first part, you mean the dark blob silhouette to be more birdshaped?
Also i havnt started on the highlights but I’ll keep that in mind for when i do. Thanks chris.

[ArtofAleksey]

So im gonna play around with the background colors but so far i did the local colors of the birdhero and i like the shape of the night blob.
The sun ill have disappearing Behind the cliffs rather than water. I think taking out the water is gonna make it easier. But i also dont mind removing the sun completely.

I like how the moon kinda looks like an eye

[KaraDaniel]

@Aleksey I really love how the sky looks like a bird and yes the moon does look like an eye!

[ArtofAleksey]

@KaraDaniel thanks kara!

Ok so i think these colors are working way better ty @TessaW for that color feedback it helpedme with picking colors i like. Im struggling a tiny bit with a concept of night being created, so how would the sky look? Shouldi do a dark red at the top of that sky? Should i leave it?
Do you think im done with local colors at this point?
(I noticed that Night blob is too close to the right side Of the image i gotta fix that.

[ArtofAleksey]

ok I think win or lose I'm very happy with the outcome.
The NIGHT BIRB

[ArtofAleksey]

Forgot to add the blue light

[StudioLooong]

@Aleksey LOVE this, the colors and rendering are amazing and the concept is cool but I think that your night magic is cutting off the tip of the moon staff.

[ArtofAleksey]

@StudioLooong i tried to make it look like the moon staff is cutting the day sky to create the night sorta? i dont know i should have played with the concept more before i jumped into it haha