Somebody
told me the explosion wasn't realistic. How can I make it more
realistic?
This is
a tough question for me to answer, actually. For one, I’m
not sure if a human being has ever seen and explosion in outer
space (other than a supernova, but that’s not what were talking
about here). Maybe NASA has performed some weird experiment to
see the properties explosive matter in space -- although I haven’t
heard of it -- but considering that there is basically no oxygen
in space I wouldn’t have a clue what it would really look
like. Anyhwho... since this is science fiction, you really have
to use you imagination to think one up. The one thing offhand
that I would immediately do to make your explosion look more real
is make chunks of metal flying out from the blast hole. Also,
you might want to alter your mesh and make part of the base peeled
back from the blast. Nice work on your graphic, I hope my advice
helped.
On to
the next critique...
This is
an image sent in by Angus "froofy" McCann (macnel@primus.com.au).
(click
for a larger view)
Angus
sends word that it was created using 2b and 3b pencils, then scanned
and cleaned up in Paint Shop Pro.
This is
a really nice drawing. You can see that Angus spent a lot of time
doing some nice detail work inside every part of the drawing.
He also did a nice job getting the arms to extend outward and
forward.
A few
things that I can see that might make the robot look better is
by making the legs longer. They are looking a bit stubby to me
and could be extended downward quite a bit. Also, it would be
nice to see the feet extend outward too. I think they wouldn’t
be really be big enough to support the size and weight of the
robot.
You definitely
have some cool machinery going on this guy’s body and I particularly
think the head is well created -- it’s kind of small for
the body, but I personally think it looks cool that way. Another
thing I was thinking is that the waist of the robot might be too
big. I think there is just too much girth there -- looking from
the armpits down to the waist, there isn’t much of a change
(it kind of indents in, but could probably stand to go even further
in). Instead of just having it gradiently pinch inward, maybe
if it sort of steped in at one point. All in all this is very
nice. You’re definitely on your way!
Well,
that’s all the time I have this week. I hope this was helpful
not only to the artists who sent their work in, but also for others.
Critiques are a part of just about any college art course you
take because they help people learn to see and understand art
styles and techniques. Also, the best part is that it helps artists
improve. Thank you very much to both O.DOGG and Angus for submitting
their work.
- Rick "Flatness" Grossenbacher works on Gameboy Color
games for Vicarious Visions.
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