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The picture does a pretty good job of emulating a certain feeling -- despair, sort of. Desperation? Breaking down, a dude screaming to the heavens. It's all blurry and weird-looking, abstract-ish, to emphasize the emotion of the piece rather than the realism of it.
Thing is, as effective the piece is at emulating despair -- and it is! -- it also makes me wonder if it fits the story that well? No I'm Fine sorta emphasizes quiet distress and the idea of evading the problem that's eating you inside, it's precisely about not screaming, but rather being skittish and reassuring yourself that you're fine no really you're fine.
(Pun, uh, not intended).
It's a fundamentally different feeling, is what I'm going for. Like, I guess you can say that this picture emulates what's going in the heart of the main character of the story -- sure, he's ignoring the problem, but to ignore something you need to first be aware that it exists. So he's lying to himself, right, when he says he's fine. So the truth is that he is not, and in fact he's quite desperate!
Bit of a reach tho. Like yeah I can see the point, but the story's focus is not on how he's REALLY despairing; the subtlety of it all is that we focus exclusively on the lie that the character tells himself to then infer what's really going on. This story avoids that and just goes, fuck it, here's him screaming because he's so fucked.
And he should be screamin', yeh, 'cause he's totally fucked. But the pic, effective as it is at emulating a certain feeling, and well-drawn as it is with that goal in mind, to me kind of misses the point the story is trying to make, and focuses on the opposite. So, great pic, but I ain't sure if it's the best pic to go with the story itself.
Thing is, as effective the piece is at emulating despair -- and it is! -- it also makes me wonder if it fits the story that well? No I'm Fine sorta emphasizes quiet distress and the idea of evading the problem that's eating you inside, it's precisely about not screaming, but rather being skittish and reassuring yourself that you're fine no really you're fine.
(Pun, uh, not intended).
It's a fundamentally different feeling, is what I'm going for. Like, I guess you can say that this picture emulates what's going in the heart of the main character of the story -- sure, he's ignoring the problem, but to ignore something you need to first be aware that it exists. So he's lying to himself, right, when he says he's fine. So the truth is that he is not, and in fact he's quite desperate!
Bit of a reach tho. Like yeah I can see the point, but the story's focus is not on how he's REALLY despairing; the subtlety of it all is that we focus exclusively on the lie that the character tells himself to then infer what's really going on. This story avoids that and just goes, fuck it, here's him screaming because he's so fucked.
And he should be screamin', yeh, 'cause he's totally fucked. But the pic, effective as it is at emulating a certain feeling, and well-drawn as it is with that goal in mind, to me kind of misses the point the story is trying to make, and focuses on the opposite. So, great pic, but I ain't sure if it's the best pic to go with the story itself.
Expressionistic, and captures the emotions of horror and despair. I think you should try varying the thickness of your lines, Artist; some of them look blobby as it stands and thinner lines for non-outline features may help. The earmarks of digital editing are all over your work, but you may not have been trying to hide them. They are, of course, just as valid a sort of artifact as brush strokes are on a painted piece. I’m putting this in the mid tier.
Funny thing, apparently the image displayed in Photoshop is much lighter than the uploaded result. I wonder if it has something to do with my monitor. Anyway, water under the bridge. and all that.
>>Samey90
Munch's Scream was a partial inspiration, for sure. That being said, There's one thing I did wrong which I feel hurt the piece as a whole.
>>Aragon
He's not screaming.
It was a rather poor choice of mine, but I was using a picture of the creature from The Thing as a colour reference as well as for the general shape of the mouth, If you squint, or tilt your screen, you can see he's grinding his teeth in pain.
His red teeth.
I wish I could tell you why I thought this was a good idea, but honestly, I'm drawing a blank.
Nevertheless, as you said, there were probably better ways to represent the protagonist's inner conflict. Duly noted.
>>GroaningGreyAgony
This was an experiment in blending. I focused on trying to make the guy's head and arms have enough shading to look like a head an arms, and I should've paid attention to some thinner lines for defining certain features.
Live and learn. Live and learn.
>>Samey90
Munch's Scream was a partial inspiration, for sure. That being said, There's one thing I did wrong which I feel hurt the piece as a whole.
>>Aragon
He's not screaming.
It was a rather poor choice of mine, but I was using a picture of the creature from The Thing as a colour reference as well as for the general shape of the mouth, If you squint, or tilt your screen, you can see he's grinding his teeth in pain.
His red teeth.
I wish I could tell you why I thought this was a good idea, but honestly, I'm drawing a blank.
Nevertheless, as you said, there were probably better ways to represent the protagonist's inner conflict. Duly noted.
>>GroaningGreyAgony
This was an experiment in blending. I focused on trying to make the guy's head and arms have enough shading to look like a head an arms, and I should've paid attention to some thinner lines for defining certain features.
Live and learn. Live and learn.