Any tips on improving coloring/blending and one-point perspective?
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txomsy
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The mountains: the first is clearer than the middle one. Usually you would expect a uniform gradient of values from near to far and less detail the farther away for ambient perspective.
Similar with the trees, should go on a similar value and color gradient as you move farther away. Same ambient perspective trick.
Shadows and color. The right hand side trees are clearer. That suggests that they get light while the ones on the left are in shadow, i.e. the light source would be somewhere up above and to the left of the painting. But shadows don't match. The ones around the bus suggest a low cenital light, in which case both sides of trees should follow similar colors/values/light tones. If one insist on keeping the right hand side trees clearer, then the shadows of the right hand side trees and the bus should be visible over the road and end before the feet of the right hand side trees.
Proportions: the road is too wide w.r.t. the bus height and width, and so are the road lines.
Next, you need to pay some attention to ambient perspective.
And once you get that, then you may think about shadows and color values. That's not difficult: just as you have traced perspective lines to a vanishing point in the middle, you can trace lines from the light source to objects and follow them to see where they intersect other objects to define the shadow extent.
THAT is IF you are a brainiac,
IF NOT, then just pay increasing of attention each time you get out and about.
We all did the same: we start by trying to get one thing right (you got the perspective lines rather well), because that's what we consider more important. Once we get that right, it is time to notice some other detail (e.g. ambient perspective) and work it. And then another... and so on for the rest of your life, until everyone thinks you are a genius except you, who will be still discovering new improvements no one else is able to see. But that's human nature, so don't worry.
Just keep on the great work and have fun.
Similar with the trees, should go on a similar value and color gradient as you move farther away. Same ambient perspective trick.
Shadows and color. The right hand side trees are clearer. That suggests that they get light while the ones on the left are in shadow, i.e. the light source would be somewhere up above and to the left of the painting. But shadows don't match. The ones around the bus suggest a low cenital light, in which case both sides of trees should follow similar colors/values/light tones. If one insist on keeping the right hand side trees clearer, then the shadows of the right hand side trees and the bus should be visible over the road and end before the feet of the right hand side trees.
Proportions: the road is too wide w.r.t. the bus height and width, and so are the road lines.
Next, you need to pay some attention to ambient perspective.
And once you get that, then you may think about shadows and color values. That's not difficult: just as you have traced perspective lines to a vanishing point in the middle, you can trace lines from the light source to objects and follow them to see where they intersect other objects to define the shadow extent.
THAT is IF you are a brainiac,
IF NOT, then just pay increasing of attention each time you get out and about.
We all did the same: we start by trying to get one thing right (you got the perspective lines rather well), because that's what we consider more important. Once we get that right, it is time to notice some other detail (e.g. ambient perspective) and work it. And then another... and so on for the rest of your life, until everyone thinks you are a genius except you, who will be still discovering new improvements no one else is able to see. But that's human nature, so don't worry.
Just keep on the great work and have fun.
