Art - Which?

[hwango]

Which do you like better?

Larger color palette: http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/21617414/

or

More monochromatic: http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/21617476/

...and any other comments or suggestions also welcome.

Comments

[krzzl.livejournal.com]

Personally, I like the monochromatic one better. It has a "warmer" feel, not in the sense of being warm and fuzzy, but warm like the warm color palette, and bringing a sense of "heat" (which goes with the firey sky really well). When looking at them side by side, the larger color palette one looks more ominous and creepy, so I guess it also depends on what mood you're going for. (Hot firey doom or spooky slightly less firey doom?)

I don't understand the glow on the lion. It looks a little weird to me. I don't know if it's not done yet. The only thing that makes sense is that it's supposed to be the reflection of the sun on him, or maybe he just casted a spell, but it's more "border-like" so it looks a bit artificial to me. If you keep it, I would blend it out more, like a gaussian blur type effect. It's not as jarring in the monochromatic one to me, and blends in better with the color scheme, so it looks a little more natural.

[hwango.livejournal.com]

Reflected sun...it's definitely one of the things that nags me as not being quite right. maybe I'll tone it down and see if that's better.