Heart's Fire (Old cover) by LyleAryn
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I'll be disabling comments this time because this is old work. It isn't very good, and I don't really need any advice on it. Just wanted to share as contrast for my current WIP of a new cover for the novel.
I love this shirt, and it looks great on her. It doesn't, however, have a counterpart in the story.
This cover, as time went on, really taught me to look at details in a piece. Her lack of a real shadow, the very low quality of the horse main, her flat, dead expression. And worst of all - the clipping in the boots. I thought it looked SOOOOOOO good when I made it. (What a fool I was! Ha!)
You know what? I'll leave the comments on after all. HOWEVER. Don't tell me how good it is - share a story. Any habits you had when you started that you've since learned were bad ones? (I used to just auto-fit EVERYTHING, and not look at texture quality at ALL. I look bad at some, and it just makes me cringe now.
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Since you asked, one thing I used to do was only look at the pose - especially the posing of the hair - from a single POV. Since I began looking and adjusting from all sides, the pose seen through the camera looks much more natural.
That's always been something I've done. Rotate around to see how it looks. Make sure the fingers and such are correct on all sides, even if it's completely off-camera. And those very few times when I hide something with a clever camera angle? I just feel dirty.
OK ! (but it's a great image...the other one tas well) I mainly work on light, atmosphere from either a HDRI or the sun (I render with the "sun only" option) and I discovered that we don't really need to purchase lights (sorry for the creators !). Poses and expressions must tell a story...well the image must tell a story and not be just an illustration.
Ah, yes. When I can get away with it, I love using sun-sky. It renders so much faster!
amazing
Thank you.
excellent
TY!
WOW... Fantastic creation!
Thanks. It's the old cover, soon to be replaced!
Nice landscape
Thanks. Pure HDRI, which creates some problems.
You go, girl! excellent!
Thank you. It's not terrible art, I just don't feel its the best cover to bring in readers, you know?
Great job, as always! 👏👏👏👍🙋♂️
Thanks. I barely knew what I was doing at the time. I see it as a marker for how much I've grown.
Wonderful image my friend :)
TYVM.
Magnificent image, beautiful scene excellent done.
TY!
Just love this one really a lot, sorry for not making more comnments, wish you a nice evening!
Thank you. Hope you are having a nice evening as well!
Great scene!
Thanks!
maybe old, but still very good!
Aww, thank you.
Super image!!! :-)
Thank you.
My only bad habit was really to think "I could make that", and then spend all my time making things for a scene that I'd never get round to doing...
...much like now then, really...
I still like this, even if it looks a little dated!
It was an improvement over the cover that I paid $150 for. (Learned my lesson.) Hopefully the new one does even better in the market.
Well, it certainly doesn't look bad to me! It does have a different "feel" but it's certainly a lovely piece.
Thanks. I try to capture some western vibes, but I think maybe that just ends up being a bit confusing to people.
It is a lovely piece and if my earlier renders looked a quarter as good I would have been so happy lol. As it was I kept forgetting to add lighting, I had a tree poking out of a horses side and rather than reclining of the ground, the character was levitating.
That definitely tells a different kind of story, lol. I am enjoying your work, by the way.
That horse is gorgeous! The landscape is so barren! Must be like what we are headed for with the drought that threatens many parts of the country.
Thank you. It's meant ot represent a location in the book known as "The Void," Where magic tore a hole in things, causing a barren space where life will not grow.
Excellent
Thanks, man!
Wonderful composition, superb atmosphere.
Thank you very much!
Great sense of atmosphere in this render .Lighting looks a treat .
Thanks! I learned quite a bit from it. I think I'd handle a few things differently if I were to redo the exact same image today.