9/11 Picture, not quite finished.

[MisterDielectric]

Hey, i'm making this thread to basically brag about this pic. I made, it's one of my best probably. Just look at it, or suggest things to improve it, anything that'll make it look better.

Does it even look like an explosion? haha, I really tried to make it look like explosive movement.

Thanks guys, hope you like it.

[bigjonny13]

I would not have guessed it was one of the twin towers.
It looks more like a high rise building with a flail on one side and a big tumor on the other.

[MisterDielectric]

At 5/2/10 08:38 PM, PrinceFlea wrote: I think you've done good without the reference.

Thanks!

Do you plan to doing this event that happened sometime around January where he smashes Into the IRS offices in Texas?

I've heard of that in the past, maybe if I find a picture of the aftermath, who knows. haha

At 5/2/10 08:30 PM, big-jonny-13 wrote: I would not have guessed it was one of the twin towers.
It looks more like a high rise building with a flail on one side and a big tumor on the other.

lol yeah, it does look like a tumor, i'm coloring it in now with mixed orange, yellow, to make it look like fire. But without color it looks retarded. It's an odd shape for an explosion...

Thanks for commenting, here is how it's coming so far.

I plan on following the same color pattern of fading orange to yellow on all of the outward spikes. Hopefully it'll start looking more like fire and less like a FUCKING TUMOR :)

[bigjonny13]

At 5/2/10 08:52 PM, MisterDielectric wrote: I plan on following the same color pattern of fading orange to yellow on all of the outward spikes. Hopefully it'll start looking more like fire and less like a FUCKING TUMOR :)

The biggest problem is that the spikes of the explosion are disconnected to the base of the explosion by those lines. You don't want them to be separate pieces, you want them to be joined to the main explosion.

[Occluded]

I think you should stop. Here's why. The reason you're doing this is inherently more interesting that the piece itself. And contrary to every Duchamp disciple I met in art school. This makes for shitty art. It's the art equivalent of Trolling. Just my opinion.

[Daverom]

My main problems are
1. the building is really detailed and realistic, yet the explosion is rather cartooney and unnatural
2. It admittedly doesn't look like an explosion, explosions are balls with spikes jutting out, they are clusters of clouds going in the direction(s) of the force.

rule of thumb, if it doesn't look right in black and white, it won't look right in color

3. The smoke also doesn't look like smoke, smoke tends to go up, while this is wrapping around the building.

IMO, the twin towers isn't and never was very good material for good art, the sentiment is nice but when you get down to it, they are 2 buildings that blew up.

Mind you I have seen some nice stuff on the subject, but it was more in honor of and such.

[MisterDielectric]

At 5/2/10 09:42 PM, M-Vero wrote: My main problems are
1. the building is really detailed and realistic, yet the explosion is rather cartooney and unnatural

I'm not that skilled with realism, so cartoony is necessary for me.

2. It admittedly doesn't look like an explosion, explosions are balls with spikes jutting out, they are clusters of clouds going in the direction(s) of the force.

rule of thumb, if it doesn't look right in black and white, it won't look right in color

3. The smoke also doesn't look like smoke, smoke tends to go up, while this is wrapping around the building.

Thank you for your criticism, i'd say so far in terms of hits and misses; this is a miss. The explosion looks crappy, but what do I expect from drawing everything from thought with no reference. Hopefully with enough work it will make sense. (but I do like how the smoke is coming along, the explosion just sucks ass.)

As you said smoke tends to travel upwards, so maybe I'll remove some of the puffs toward the bottom of the weird ass cloud I made. Thanks.

At 5/2/10 09:32 PM, Occluded wrote: I think you should stop. Here's why. The reason you're doing this is inherently more interesting that the piece itself. And contrary to every Duchamp disciple I met in art school. This makes for shitty art. It's the art equivalent of Trolling. Just my opinion.

Um. I think it's cool and would like to continue. Just my opinion.

[RaptorFarmer]

Unless the building's made of some really dense material, it should have more damage then just around the explosion. The force of the explosion should have made a large gaping hole and sent more debris all over the place. The force of the explosion isn't indicated by the size of the flame but by how much crap is thrown around.