Can’t really have a Shadowrun / Cyberpunk series without a full conversion borg can you? I spent more time on this than anything else this year. Getting the bronze and steel metals right was critical. What do you think I should do next in this series?
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Thats some sexy lighting and texture work 🔥
I LOVE how you did the reflections of light on the glasses and the hand- the way theres the pink tones from the light that bleed onto the metal since it’s so reflective.
The embroidered sunflowers are also done very well, it has a softness that contrasts nicely with the metal. I can imagine pretty vividly how these textures would feel in my hand since you communicated them so well artistically.
I do feel the background detracts significantly from the full piece, specifically the lighter colours on the upper left side (the right side is fine). Your brush strokes look a little haphazard comparative to the care places on everything else, like it’s unfinished. I don’t think this would be so noticeable if the subject wasn’t so detailed, the detailing making my eyes feel a bit more scrutinous than usual.
A liiiiittle bit more attention on that portion would elevate this piece for sure. I feel like you were trying to give it a sort of “blurry” look without actually blurring your strokes? You could definitely achieve this with your style- look into Bokeh in photography. You would be doing big circular dots rather than sketchy strokes.
With your next piece I would say maybe exploring Bokeh in some way would be fun? Not sure about subject but someone from a Cyberpunk world would certainly fit exploring that style.
Just my thoughts :3 Thanks for sharing your art!
Also thank you for calling out the sunflowers, that was the biggest risk for me. Does it fit, will it work? My wife loves wearing stuff like this and I figured why would that change in a cyberpunk world.
But if I stick with using what my wife often wears as a rule that means this jacket doesn’t have pockets…
Oh heck yeah, I imagine something organic like flowers would be fashionable in a chrome world. Your risk there really payed off on the immersion.
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Wow, thank you for taking the time to type all of this out. And yes I did cheap out on the background. It’s supposed to be a wall with chipped paint (the blobs). Clearly that didn’t come through.
I’ve done more detailed backgrounds but I normally don’t do those with portraits because the portrait takes a lot of time to get right and I don’t want it to take from the foreground.
I’ve done blurred backgrounds a good bit but trying to find a happy medium between the two. Not blurred but not super detailed that has some texture to it that isn’t just a simple color gradient.
More work is needed for sure.
Ahh okay, I didn’t realize it was chipped paint. You could probably have gotten away with a tiny bit of detailing- some vague dotted lines the way you did for the zipper to represent the light catching the lifted chips of paint. A thin brush for the cracks, the same size that you used for the chains on the torso could work too.
I will say shadows on the wall were more passable, the issue with the light coloured strokes is that the opacity gives away that it was done quickly.
I agree… I’ll keep working on it!
Holy shit this is epic
Thank you! Not sure I’ll put them much effort into many pieces. Each metal plate had to be painted individually and used many individual reference materials.
Im realy impressed by all the different effects and details. Maybe for the next peace stick to the distopian future and paint a stray with chipped ears, half a tail and a lost limp. All stuft that would be replaced in a human but nobody does that for a stray. Maybe contrast it with a bodyshop background vor something highly developed and technical.
Thank you, and clever idea!
