Saturday, July 5, 2008

a darker collection. +1+1

new add,



another new add,





Here are some random pieces i started but then dropped half way... still post-able (i think?)



mountains.



hills. (edit)



trees.




many, much, more, images to create before july 24th ;)
-keep busy all

7 comments:

Jake Murray said...

As always, great atmosphere in all of these, Jair. The only thing that bothers me at all is that there seems to be some sort of a scale discrepancy in the one with the hills and the figure on the horse. The horse and figure just feel a bit too big for that space. It might have something to do with the atmospheric perspective or something. The scale relationship between the figure and the landscape says "hills" but the atmosphere says "mountains" which makes the guy just seem big. Not sure, but you might have a better idea of what's causing this than I do. In any case, good to see all this work. What's July 24th?

Jake Murray said...

Okay. Actually after really looking at it, I know what's doing it. It's the hill closest to the center in the distance. Scale-wise, it's a lot smaller than the other hills. Not saying that the hills all have to be the same size, but the other three look to be pretty consistent with each other, and that one in the center is just confusing the space for me or something.

JAIR said...

jake; yeah i see what your saying there those hills are a bit ambiguous. I will change them and repost it.

july 24th is san diego comic-con

JAIR said...

fixed! :)

Jake Murray said...

Very niiiice.

Raz said...

Hey Jair. Good stuff man. Impressive as always. My only overall crit is this... It seems 90% of your pieces have dark, to almost sometimes silhouetted, foregrounds/middle-grounds. I understand that this is probably faster and easier to work this way, since the eye tends to read suggestive strokes much better in shadow, because shadow obscures detail. I think at your level, you may want to try lighting up your foreground/middle-ground sometimes and painting in a bit more of those details.

Eugene Hoban said...

hills, when i look at it first the path looks like a river or something, a thought i had maybe place a directional sign at the intersection.