Silver Surfer by SpiderGuile and Ryan Lord

[Ryan]

Just some colors for fun:

Line Art by SpiderGuile

Color Art by Ryan Lord

[Soto]

It's a good piece, but as much as the orange pops against all that blue, I don't understand where it's coming from.
The entire piece just looks so heavy and busy without much place for the reader's eye to rest. You're kind of asking the reader to work pretty hard to understand what's going on here amidst all the visual noise.
Simpler might be better in terms of leading the reader's eye.

-Soto

[Ryan]

Thanks for the feedback, Chris! I appreciate you taking the time to critique my work.

[DCJosh]

i think im more interested in that bkg than the surfer there

*tries to push him outta the way*

lol


seriously nice tho. you make all them planets and moons from scratch? would love to hear about how
*loves space art*

[Ryan]

seriously nice tho. you make all them planets and moons from scratch? would love to hear about how

I actually composited the background out of free stock images, then unified the palette with gradient maps, color, and overlay layers. I then painted over that to try and unify everything more. I also have a few "stock" planets I've created I use as starting points. I have a couple that I've used forever from way back when Greg Martin first posted his tutorials.

One handy tip I picked up from Kelsey Shannon is that the Smart Blur filter is a great way to simplify a photography and make it more painterly so that it doesn't appear too photorealistic in comparison.

[DCJosh]

very cool

yeah i do much the same when i have to do space stuff. mix n matching and all that

havent messed with the smart blur though. but ive heard that before. ill have to play around with it some