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"As I stepped into the elevator, the peak of the distant archology lit up like a brilliant diamond. The rising sun's first rays of course hit that kilometer-high building first. Morning was rapidly descending onto the city as I took the elevator down again."
"On the way I raced the rising sun; Above me was day, a glaring edge of clearest sunlight rapidly creeping downwards; yet the elevator was fast enough to stubbornly remain in shadow."
Another splash page from my work-in-progress unpublished comic Shrike. Removed text captions from the image (parts of it shown above instead.)
Painted from scratch in MyPaint, post-processing in GIMP. Work time about 12 hours. This really looks better on monitors with good colour-reproduction, I found it mattered a lot more for this piece than many others.
Anyway, comments and critique is appreciated as usual.
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Griatch
"On the way I raced the rising sun; Above me was day, a glaring edge of clearest sunlight rapidly creeping downwards; yet the elevator was fast enough to stubbornly remain in shadow."
Another splash page from my work-in-progress unpublished comic Shrike. Removed text captions from the image (parts of it shown above instead.)
Painted from scratch in MyPaint, post-processing in GIMP. Work time about 12 hours. This really looks better on monitors with good colour-reproduction, I found it mattered a lot more for this piece than many others.
Anyway, comments and critique is appreciated as usual.
.
Griatch
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Overall Vision
Originality Technique ImpactI like this piece a lot, but I do notice a couple of things about it that I would change.
First, the positive. There's a lot to like here. Your representation of the terminator as dawn creeps over the city is very nice. So is your use of soft edges to push the warm colors of the sunlight back behind the cool darkness.
The angle at which you presented the foreground element nicely directs the eye to the sunshine and also imparts a sense of the movement of the elevator. The elevator glass is also extremely well done. The internal lighting and its effect on the subject seem consistent and very believable.
All told, I think the visual storytelling of this panel is very good. I had figured out what was going on in the picture before I read the description.
If I were drawing this, I would have been more exact with the straight lines of the buildings and other man-made objects. The elevator button panel stands out very sharply to me - the lines of the beveled edge aren't consistent distance from the edge of the panel, etc. Some of the buildings are off true as well. This is a stylistic choice, of course, but I think that cyberpunk's love-hate between man and machine would be reinforced by the contrast between organic curves and ruler-straight lines.