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Protect What's Yours by Turnbull (critique requested)

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Protect What's Yours (critique requested)

Turnbull

Turnbull decided the neighbors had a lot of nice things and wanted some of his own. However, he underestimated the effectiveness of their low-tech security system.

Inspired by a playing a few rounds of The Castle Doctrine. This piece started yesterday as a doodle and then with the help of Klippy I made it into a full complete-ish thing.

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Carpet Texture Source
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    Thaily

    Perspective is really hard, I have a link here that makes it a lot easier to do in Photoshop: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9PIUG2fjcQ
    If you put down a dot, then hold the shift and put down the second Photoshop will draw a straight line (maybe turn off pressure sensitivity if they're vague).
    That will make it a lot easier to draw a background with nice tight perspective.

    I do like that you made the carpet texture grow smaller towards the back, less visible. That really helps create a feeling of depth.

    Also I suggest using photo ref, and not being afraid of overlap; don't worry about wanting to draw it all, on a running dog you might not see all the legs from the viewer's perspective.
    Like this: http://blog-photos.dogvacay.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/dog-running7.jpg

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      Turnbull

      Thanks for your advice!

      I actually used like 20-some-odd photo refs in the course of this picture as well as just looking around my apartment. Most of them were for the foreground character with 5 or so for the dog and another 3 or 4 of hallways. Obviously more practice is in order.

      I'll check out those links you provided for sure though.

      I learned shortly after completing this piece that sai also has a shift click feature for drawing straight lines. I don't know why I didn't think it did, since almost every other drawing program does it too.

      The paintings also got kinda derped up because I set up the perspective by using a copy of the piece in GIMP and overlaying the perspective lines and perspective tooling them into the right shape before copying them back to sai to avoid artifacting on the greater part of the image.