Feature 10 - I Move For No Man

[wolfenoctis]

Hi guys

I want to use this for aa practice. But before I do I would like some critique, specifically about color however any other crits are welcome 
I'ts a poster of the black knight from a Monty Python sketch. As seen here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKhEw7nD9C4

[r1k]

Id try using more contrast on the knight itself.  Since theres high contrast between the knight and the background, the shading on the knight becomes less noticeable.

[Phlakes]

And the blue is a little jarring against the red/orange, it might help to tone that down a bit.

Literally like a 10 second edit, just purpled and desaturated-

[Mr. Fahrenheit]

His shoulders and his waist seem disproportionate to me.

[wolfenoctis]

Thanks for the critique 

I've desaturated the blue, increased contrast and made the hips a bit wider, anything else?



Edit: removed some old color pixels on his helm

[Larwick]

His legs seem splayed outwards from the knees in an odd way. Like this:
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You should probably widen the skirt, spread the legs more. I also feel like they should be longer.

[Cyangmou]

maybe you also find a solution with the red bg to make it with clean lines (2:1, 3:1, 4:1 ratios). Otherwise it might get difficult to AA them and it definitely will take away from the clean style you have going on in the foreground.

Is the sword intended to be a yellow shape or is it just WIP?

[wolfenoctis]

The sword is going to just be a yellow shape, the whole thing is just to practice AA, I'l try your suggestion of clean lines after I fail to make these current lines work 

[wolfenoctis]

Widened the legs, and made them slightly thinner and moved the knee up a bit, does this look better Larwick?

[Larwick]

Yeah that's better, the raised knees helps a lot. I did a paint-over and think the knees may be more visible where the skirt ends however.