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The Engineer by Rachez (critique requested)

The Engineer (critique requested)

Rachez

This is the piece that I did for the Confuzzled 2014 conbook. I tried really hard on it but I've seen some other people's work so I don't think I have much of a chance of being featured! You never know, I'm hopeful.
Art's been pretty slow due to my dissertation hand-in being 2 weeks away. I'm panicking a bit so hopefully people enjoy this one. Expect more art in a few weeks time!

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    I really enjoyed seeing this from its concept to finish! Love the contrast of the giant metallic creature and the dainty cute lepoard, makes you wonder what is the story...

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    I have to say well down on the character render on the left side. However this piece seems to become more and more blurry as we look at the Mecha as well as the background. Things you should have done is increase the contrast and maybe add some more rendering details on the robot's pelvis. I'd say unnecessary lines distract the viewer especially if the area is not rendered; It's just like drawing lines over a painting. This a great concept but it could have been executed a lot better just by comparing the feline to the rest of the picture.

    Also for the backgrounds, same thing as the robot, too many unnecessary lines that get in the way of the rendering thus causing the depth of field to be lost. I must say once again, you're good at rendering textures especially the lighting you've done on the knees of the feline. I just wished the execution of the character is supported by the other elements of the painting.

    I can also suggest if since you've drawn a mecha of some sought, try looking at Scott Robertson tutorials on how to render metallic surfaces. Really useful guy to learn from when it comes to machines.

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      Sorry for the late reply!
      Thanks for the crit, it was really helpful. I was a bit of an idiot and drew the picture in RGB before realising the conbook asks for CMYK so the colours aren't quite as deep as before and I had to improvise the shadows a little.
      Thanks for the advice on the lines, I think I have a bad habit of thinking lines=detail so it's something I'll look out for in future work. I'll have a look at those tutorials- thank you!
      I really appreciate your help.