Friday, October 14, 2011

JakeS Neon City

glowing dude

Had alot of fun with the bright colors and the outer glows. It became a little out of control in the end but I still had fun with this. I used glow effects and little bit of the gradient mesh.

10 comments:

  1. While the composition is nice, the blue on the right hand side is a little strong. It needs something to balance it out.

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  2. Wow, I really enjoy this! I love the colors you chose, but I think that the bright blues and reds could be emanating even more light! Also, I am a little confused about the space, but I think throwing in more blue highlights on the figure and ground that he is on in reaction to the bright blue could help that!

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  3. It is so cool! The color choice is really cool, I like the way you put red and green together on one page.

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  4. The character design, the environment, the colors, the lighting, everything really seems to come together really well. I'm not quite sure what I'm looking at as far as the far-away blue shapes, but I'm not sure I need to for it to be a successful background. Maybe it'd be fun to see those blue shapes glowing like the thinner blue structure to the left? Though I'm not sure if you were intending it as a lighting source or not. The red highlight on the underside of the pants works well for me- though I think it also might make it look like the light is closer than where you have it now? All in all, really great work.

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  5. Looks good! I think the bright blue/green in the background would look nice with a subtle gradient over it. It may help add to the depth and space, which I think would help the character stand out more.
    Nice shapes and detail. It'd be nice to see more blue light reflected on the character too.

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  6. Gosh! The color on this is really cool! I love that orange shape you made for the nose! The forms are really well done too! GOOD JOB!

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  7. You're always really good at making sweet backgrounds, a skill I hope someday to have. I would have to agree tho that the brightness of the color on the background does take away from the glow effect a bit on the character. Playing around with the background brightness or mass might make your glowing effect on the character stronger.

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  8. Things are so neon, but not so glowy. Amp up the outer glow just a bit and it will be very intense, just like neon

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  9. i really love your style in this piece. and i like how you had hints of the outer glow effect throughout your piece. the character is so fun and i like the shapes you created as well. i love the color choices! really awesome job! one of my favorites!

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  10. Love the way you're creating space in this. all of your shapes are really nice and reminiscent of the shapes throughout the whole piece. it's got a real unity to it. even the way that youre treating the shadows on the character look like they really fit with the rest. Illustrator is looking good!
    I think you could bump up the glow color a little bit -- mabye instead of white glows, you could make them glow red -- or blue... it seems like the feel like the light coming off of them is a little different than the lights themselves- -- like the blue lights in his helmet / pack, could be a teal color,
    and the red light at the bottom could be casting up on the edges of his arm (the back of his arm) and the edge of his thigh / calf.. know what I mean? This has a lot of awesome potential for back-lighting as well coming from that large blue thing that kind of looks like a window or a glowing piece of machinery. I could see you adding a little touch of blue light around the right side of his body -- nice job.Really subtle use of gradients here - push them a little, but over the style is awesome.

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