After attending many shows this year and speaking with lots of creatives I was shown and picked up on many things I have been doing poorly. The two images below are ones that I chose to go in and touch up after considering them done. Dan Dos Santos and Lauren Panepinto both gave me some great advise on how I treat edges. This was a major flaw for me. Most images were rendered at the same detail level from front to back. And oh the rim lighting was out of control. I was like a kid who just got photoshop and put lens flairs on everything. Sigh.
The Green Wizard
Touch ups included removing rim lighting around fingers, adjust the hue of the face and adding he Cthulhu medallion. Also I should mention I these were scanned on two different scanners.
The Haunted Woods
This piece also had a lot of unnecessary rim lighting as well. Steve Prescott was kind enough to suggest adding some additional depth by extending the tree line into the background. He also suggested a few color shifts and again softening some edges. Spot on advice, though Im not sure I went far enough. I pushed the darks a bit more too, added some more details to the spooky ghost stuff.
There always seems to be more that can be done to an image but you have to stop somewhere and start working on the next piece right? As I write this I see plenty more opportunities for improvement, all the way down to the composition, but….
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