[si-man]

looks like a cool challenge, some nice entries as well! think I recognize rhazza from the batman challenge, I think ur first sketch is pretty spot on as well... Im goin for a kinda desert feel..

[Unseenhand]

My wip, I'm liking the bottom left atm but what do you all think?
I would give reviews but I'm still learning and dont think I really qualify ha. Though I think its all looking really good.

@andreasbech I really like the gloomy feeling in your painting.

@CaioChagas your style is amazing, very painterly.

@JoseVega Thank you very much for your live streaming videos, watching another artist at work was very helpful.

[JoseVega]

@Zchary - very nice... even thou is not a landscape format it looks great! I would probably down size the figures to make it look even large scene
@caio - hehehe nice, thanks! great start. make sure u play around with shapes and your edges keep it up and great direction with the clouds.
@sbap - good update, i would still tone down the value of that mountain on the right. keep it up!
@nightmare - nice its starting to take shape and adds more story to it... keep it up
@si-man - hey goos start and foreground element.... make sure u present a very vast place.... make it huuggeee!!!
@unseen - hey man np anytime!!!

[ZacharyMcLean]

Thank you for all the kind words and criticism. I appreciate it.

@JoseVega - I took your advice of sizing down the characters a bit, to add a better scale.

I worked some more on my entry.. I'm not too happy with some components of it, like how the horizon goes through the very middle and makes it look cut into two separate images. That could be an easy fix though, so I'm not too worried about it.

[JoseVega]

Hey guys Ill be going LIVE in about 40 mins. Gonna be working on my piece for here!
www.livestream.com/artofjosevega

[gbbishop]

sorry folks.

I had to take my computer in to fix the monitor. My fall back machine only has a working copy of gimp. Not sure if I will be able to get over the interface differences to complete this round. Though I will try.

For those that are able to participate: The 'scapes I like the best leave "extreme" terrain behind. and give that HUGE open space feel. Plains should be wide open and vast.

I was hoping to take my own advice and develop the middle plain. I for my part need to open my concepts up a bit as well I think. Make them feel... wider?

What a brutal change in UI.. (PS to GIMP) I feel like a NOOB all over again

This is as far as I have gotten.

[Sbapstien]

Hi,

This is my work in progress

[ZacharyMcLean]

Hey, nice progress everyone..

@Sbapstien - Loving your entry. Definitely shows a great forgotten plain and place of battle a long time ago! I don't know if its just me, but I might had some more color on the land area, since it looks a lot more desaturated and then the sky is bright colors. I'm not a big fan of the huge gaps in the ground, because they take away from the focal point, and trap your eye. I did a quick paintover for you, to show you what I meant. I got rid of the holes in the ground and added some more structures that lead your eye into what I thought was the illustration's focal point. The broken structures look incredible though, and I like the background, a lot! Keep on working on it!

[arttorney]

Nice clouds by the way, but since they are over there near the light source, the bottom of them should have warmer colors than the top. The light source is low, yellow/orange, and farther from the eye than the clouds.

I can see that near the light you have done this but I think some of those darker cold blues to the left and right should gradient through ultramarine into some rose reds as they approach the light source.

[nightmarejan]

update! almost done filling in the details...not sure what to add next though.

[gbbishop]

Back at it. After yesterday's frustrations I was not sure I was coming back to this. But thanks to others uploading all their BadAss WIPs. I thought why not work through the pain. I thinks i have the keyboard shortcuts sorted out enough that I can paint. though the brush dynamics is sadly lacking in gimp. (not that I am 100% sure I know how to get the fullest out of them yet.)

Couple thoughts for my peers:

@si-man - it doesn't feel big enough yet. not open. consider moving the first tank more into the foreground. right now it feels like the subject.

@nightmarejan - the tanks look to be placed in an order. like they were parked on purpose... they are not "random" enough. I might get rid of one or more were I to try and fix it. try to create more depth i think.

@Zachary - What if you extended the field farther back. Fog out the mountains a bit more. and nudge the castle a bit forward? This will do two things it will increase your DOF and break up your horizon problem. The attached thumb is for you, a VERY quick paint over as to what I meant, was more for me to see if what I wrote made sense. I think it goes in the right direction anyway.

[gbbishop]

aaaannd here is my progress.

crit welcome.

[andreasbech]

While not being that big of an update, I've had a difficult time getting the composition to work, while maintaining some idea of this wast plain.. This is where I am at the moment. I'm running short on time, so I'll probably stay with this and get started on colors and detail.
Inspired by nightmarejan I may add some skeletons. I haven't decided whether its going to be of dragons or war mammoths/elephants.. No matter what, I'll try to get it to look like an old battlefield of some sort with weapons, banners etc (whatever would still be visible after a few hundred years)


@ gbbishop
Glad to see you picked the second of your initial sketches! I really like the color palette and the mood in that one.. Looking forward to see it more detailed. Only comment from here would be the contrast/color on the skeletons. I think they are a bit too white at the moment. I would suggest mixing some brown/green in there, and then maybe use some cold blues to make them pop from the ground. Is it a mountain range or just fog in the background? Whatever it is I think it will work just fine!

@ nightmarejan
Thanks for the dragon advice! Really like how your image is comming along, especially the detail with the flowers! Not much to say! I would maybe darken the foreground a bit, and for the fun of it, change the design of the tanks a little (depending, of course, of what you try to achieve). Right now they look kind of cute. It could be fun to make them more evil and aggressive to contrast the flowers. Could be done by making them more flat, and detail the butt out of them, make the design more "spikey", maybe have two canons on some of them, I don't now

@ Sbapstien
You've really achieved to get the plains to look wast! I like it! I'm going to agree with what both ZacharyMcLean and arttorney wrote. Combined with those advice, I would probably squeeze the image together a little bit and/or cut some of the sky as well. What is that peak thing? It looks interesting, but its difficult to tell

@ ZacharyMcLean
It really looks great, I love the fantasy look, the colors and your brush strokes! Your image could easily benefit from gbbishops advice, although I think both will work. I would maybe add some packhorses etc to the crew in the foreground. Just to signal that they aren't going to war, but instead rediscovering these forgotten plains

@ unseenhand
Thanks! Your thumps a bit small, but from the looks of it, the chasm in the bottom right one looks really interesting!

@ si-man
I like the desert idea! And it seems like a cool war machine in the foreground. While still maintaining the desert feel with the really hot and shining sun, I think your environment could benefit from some more contrast. But at this stage, it difficult to say. I'm looking forward to the update

@ CaioChagas
Thanks for the advice on tangencies! You where right, I had a lot of compositional problems..
I think I liked the composition in your your first two sketches the most, however you achieve a greater sense of "forgotten plains" in the last one. I'm not sure about the city and the structures, I think it depends on how you interpret "forgotten plains". No matter what, I liked the foreground elements in your first sketches, so a combination between the two could be a cool solution, but the more resent one works as well

@ Patrick_P
Another cool color palette! I like the compositions as well. What are the structures? A city?

@ milkypu
I really really like the idea with the statue! I think both of your color palettes could work, although the first one is a bit nutty, whick in some cases is a good thing! I'm looking forward for an update.

@ JoseVega
Ahh I messed up the time difference, but thanks! Anyway, your sketches look sick. I would probably say the second one depicts the topic the best, but the composition is great in all three of them.

[CaioChagas]

I'll probably call this my final... maybe some fixes on the foreground rocks... and that's it.

[Sbapstien]

Hi,

Thank you for your help,
@ ZacharyMcLean I listened to your advice, I do not give my opinion on your creation as I have a very bad english, I'm french.

I do not always Understand what you Said