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Old 01-23-2010, 12:22 PM   #1
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Hi. New year starts with a new painting ;)
I am working on a banner for a blog of some friends "DARKAGENT" who write reviews (in german) about movies. They are pretty good and got a lot readers, now they start to write official game reviews.

The idea for this pic is to fill all the blank ads in the background with interpreations of lions, desklamps, castles, mountains, mushrooms, ... and add floating holographic buttons like: A, B, X, Y , L, R, O, ...
I hope you get the idea.
I'm not sure yet if I should give a weapon or some kind of tool/gadget to the agent... all crits are welcome!
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Old 01-23-2010, 06:05 PM   #2
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Love the perspective. nice work. I have no crits at the moment but definitly would like to see your progress.
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Old 01-24-2010, 03:36 PM   #3
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Nice composition. Watch your contrasts though to establish a good flow in your image and help guide the viewer around and to your focal point. There could be even more then one. Establish a good hierarchy to tell the story.
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Old 01-26-2010, 08:54 AM   #4
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thanks.

I started to throw colors in, and i think i'll fill all the billboards like this before i start thinking about light and burn that happens to heavily light ads in the night...

do you think i could get troubles with copyrights if i do the banner like this?
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Old 01-31-2010, 01:04 PM   #5
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more contrast, less details...
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Old 02-07-2010, 12:34 PM   #6
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nobody liked the buttons - they dropped out again...
not completely finished yet, but I already put it on the blog of my friends http://darkagent.blog.de
(it's in german)... any crits?
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Old 02-09-2010, 06:01 PM   #7
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Great improvements, keep it up.
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Old 02-09-2010, 06:21 PM   #8
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good decision to drop those buttons :D also with simplifying the background, though i don't really understand why there are those creatures- are they supposed to be 3d-hologram-ads?
i really think you should concentrate on the face now, because it's still the weakest point. maybe you could try less outlines and more shading. break it down to a few basic "planes". detail comes afterwards ;)

i did a _really_ quick overpaint, but you get the idea
keep them coming! :)
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Old 02-10-2010, 09:50 AM   #9
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thx a lot!
the darkagent-blog is about movies and games. so i thought as a start all the different films (from MGM, Pixar, Tristar, Paramount,...) are "attacking" the agent, and he just sorts them out... I don't mind if the joke doesn't work. It's good enough if the visitors like what they see! ;)
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Old 02-26-2010, 10:46 PM   #10
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finally an update... ;)
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much better, i don't know about the typo, though... but if it fits into the page-header ;)
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thx. i think i know the direction now... lot to do! ;)
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