Africa!

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cnc!its a wip! I need osme ideas? is it lacking cxompostion?

Right suddu your not listening.


Your lps seem very random do not add loads of stocks, try to pick a few meaningful ones and use them, enhance them and add effects.

I agree. This would be alright, except there's a hot air balloon, a rainbow, a fairy, and a dolphin. Really? Get rid of those and it would be A-OK.

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Originally Posted by ratchetnclank

Right suddu your not listening.


Your lps seem very random do not add loads of stocks, try to pick a few meaningful ones and use them, enhance them and add effects.

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lol for real son. Haha that first part made me laugh.

OKay suddu. look at Henry's old photo manips. They look like the style your trying to achive. His crime LP is awesome.:
http://www.henryamistadi.deviantart.com/

Look at how he does it and then try to mimic some of the technique. The biggest thing you need to work on is the flow, and not making so many thigns random.

ANother great way to study this is going to dev art and browsing.

I don't want to repeat what they all said, so listen to them. :D
One other thing is that all your stocks are cut out pretty badly. There is white spots all over that tree and in between the branches. Looks very amateur.
Just spend more time cutting things out, or try to use renders. :D

You have the skill, just need a little practice with composition as you noticed.

The piece looks nice and everything, but when working with your stocks try to get them all with a similar level of contrast, brightness, and sharpness. Just simply apply image->adjustments->(curves, brightness and contrast, levels etc) as well as sharpening up your stocks.

As mentioned, more = not always better.

Infact, less is more.

As for "specific" things about the piece, the lines disappear on the right of the elephant, the Earth is missing a bottom part, and the bottom of the image in general looks a little unrefined.

However i love the bg lines, and the bg itself. The composition of the stocks is nice, just a little too much. The cartoony clouds are a nice touch and contrast also :)

In short - Simplify! :D

I think the text needs to be stronger