Steampunk House

[Cyangmou]

Well I had recently some time and sprited a house. I am looking for C&C in general.

It's a city house, scenario is somewhat around our worlds 1900. THe scenario will be dark and opressive, tried to create a mystique, magic mood.

[Seiseki]

Epic stuff! The colors really set the mood!

The girls eyes are kinda hard to read though.
Either she has huge alien black eyes with a white reflection, or she's looking to the right and that reflection is her eyewhites.

[ptoing]

Really nice. Shades of Nieborg

One structural crit I have is the chimney. It makes not architectural sense to be at an angle like that, especially not in a house with a simple floorplan like this.

[Cyangmou]

THe chimney, was the last thing I added and the initial sketch don't had one. Although I liked the form of the top, you are right with the structural problems ptoing. I improved it and twisted the chimney, maybe this adds also a bit charakter to the house.

I further made a slight color/contrast edit, which one is better at your monitors?





And the charakters eyes, yeah there is also something which bugs me, but it's pretty hard to say what it is, maybe the form of the face just don't work. I tried out lots of different things, although 3-9 seems to look pretty odd. I worked on from 2 and also changed the face shadow and hair form. I think 13 looks best, but I don't know if it looks better than the original. What do you guys think?

[Probo]

wow that looks brilliant. the edited version with more contrast looks better on my monitor. really pops out more

[Lóng]

no.12 is the most promising imo, 13,11,10,5,4,2 and 0 look kind of "inverted" and have a demon-like or alien-like vibe as Seiseki mentioned.

Tried an edit at no.12 trying to convey the suppressing mood, which is also the reason I'm rooting for your previous color selection.

[yaomon17]

The edited version does have more contrast but I think the muted version provides a better atmosphere or feeling or whatever.

[Seiseki]

No 3 and 8 look best I think, most of the others have the bug eyes..
But it might also be one of those, "that which has been seen cannot be unseen"..

[Cyangmou]

I went back to the first color version, but darkened the 2 darkest tones more, and I reworked the eyes of the chars. Most people liked 3 8 and 12, so I made a version with those as reference.

I think the piece is finished now. Thanks to everybody for the help. If you have some further things to mention about the charakters I am always having an open ear =)

[Mr. Fahrenheit]

The shingles on the roof look like a wallpaper. They are too flat. I am not exactly sure how to correct this, but your first color change with the increased contrast seemed to help it a bit.