Skulltree

[huZba]

That's a pretty nice edit dogmeat and i second the direction it's taking. What this needs now is some more atmosphere. It's raining, but i can't feel the humidity in the air and the colors aren't overcast weather enough. There's a bit of that feeling there, just not enough. There's some depth issue too which is not present in Ryumaru's edit. The way the full range of the palette is applied on all the roots makes it flat. Try omitting shades from either end of the ramp to gain some depth.

What's this tree like btw? Is it walking around or has it been on the rock always? It would sit better on the rock if there were some other plants keeping company.

[Souly]

I realized alot of these edits are hard to see the difference.
So I compiled them.


Okay I made the trunk a bit rounder like you suggested dogmeat, though not so dramatically.


I tried a mossy and more rooty approach earlier, though it was fail and wayyyy too much so I left it out, I was going to try it again soon.

[Dogmeat]

Starting to look better, but I really think that the lighting should be more dramatic, to give the feeling huZba was hinting at. I feel that this piece has a ton of potential to be hallmark, if you work it, I will devote whatever time and help you in whatever way I can, i'd love to see a finished, polished version of this

Another thing I thought about was instead of having a really dark blackish color on the gnarled part of the tree, use a dark green or purple instead, and ramp up to your current palette.

Another thing, if you somehow incorporated atmosphere ( raining ) in front of the tree, in some way, it would really add a lot of depth to the background and the focus of the piece.

Keep it up!

[Souly]

Dogmeat do you got an MSN?
If so PM me it. 


My attempt at making foreground raindrops.

[Destiny]

On a few of the roots the light source is coming from the center.

[Madre]

Does this help the lightsource problem?

looks beter

On a few of the roots the light source is coming from the center.

so what?


other thing,
 i guess you are using a wrong palette color

about the stone shiding...maybe this help you

[skamocore]

Love the idea, this could turn out great 

Right now, I wouldn't say this has much of an expression...It kind of looks a bit like ÒoÓ, but not quite.

Is there a reason why you've cropped it the way you have? I think it would be nicer seeing more of the tree. At the moment, it's not immediately obvious that it's a tree. It takes a few seconds to register that it is actually supposed to be a tree.

I don't like the foreground raindrops...they do nothing for the piece and make it look as though you've accidentally gone over those pants with an eraser tool. What you could do instead is add more depth to the bg...possibly a hint of an horizon and/or silhouettes of other trees or rocks in the bg.

Ryu had some good advice on mixing ramps. Because of your seperate palettes, the rock doesn't seem to really fit in the scene. Also, you could try making a yellow from the tree a more yellow-green colour and use that instead as the leaf highlight

Just a suggestion: maybe you could add some small bugs or something around the tree. Could add some more life to the scene and give the tree a bit more character.

Also, Maybe darken the scene to give it more of a stormy vibe.

[I Am Uh]

I really like this. Though the eyes look really jagged to me, there are tons and tons of stray colors and pixels in unneeded places. It would be quite easy to just go in and edit it all out, it would look 10 times better. Maybe you're going to go in and polish it later, these are just nit picks.

Also the foreground raindrops look a lot like beams of light. I think maybe adding more or shortening them would help.
The leafs on the tree look like an Afro at the moment, some large branches going from the top of the skull into it would look better. (IMO)

[Redshrike]

As Dogmeat said, this piece would really benefit from more dramatic lighting.  You've got a really cool subject with nice details, but at the moment it looks flat.  This is because every part of it seems to be just about equally lit, like it has a spotlight facing directly towards it, if you know what I mean.  That can make even the coolest pics look boring, or at least not nearly as exciting as they should.