Reinventing The Tattoo Forum

Hewey,

its an ambitious project, and I commend your use of 3D media to explore your composition. The issues are in your execution- mainly with readability. Because it's such a detailed piece, care must be taken to keep it clear and readable. One easy way (that you could still do) is use a strong black line around the figure and horse, and selective line weight around other elements based on their priority in the composition- this is a tried and true trick for making complex designs readable. If you are going gor that more realistic black and gray look, then it needs to be done by being very selective with your values. Keeping the stonework much lighter and making the shadows in the figure darker is a good example. As it stands, your shading values are too similar between your different elements which gives the piece a busy, cluttered look from a distance... Easy to fix though.

Hello yes that was the plan to make things lighter as they went back but the washes didn't turn out how I had played this in my head. The stone work was going to be only opaque grey and the dragon the darkest washes with horse and rider in between. I do have a healed pic but I can't upload it as there is no icons to do so on a android phone just the icon guide. I've readjusted my washes as I knew things wasn't coming out how I liked. The lighter washes are the ones I just have problems with getting them smooth in the skin. I will try and get a healed photo up from the phone to the computer to then upload. Thanks for your time.