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.

[invader-haywire.livejournal.com]

Hmm... really all I notice is monochromatic one is more yellow and brighter than the other. A little too bright considering the sun and clouds in the sky. It seems to throw your light source off.

[tankhangen.livejournal.com]

I like the monochromatic one better. I agree with kaiwoklaw, that the sun halo effect does not look quite right. My only other critique is I don't really like the vest, but thats just my opinion on the style, artistically it looks good.

[octophobic.livejournal.com]

I like the glow effect. I also like the monochromatic version more. It looks more like sunset/sunrise. It also makes the long grass look better.

He should be a little bit pudgy though. Male lions tend to sit around all day while the females get food. ;)

Is it possible to add some glow effect to the grass in the background? I think the patch directly before the sun might be too dark. (grass one) (grass two) Maybe just making the horizon beneath the sun slightly bowl shaped would help.

I think he needs more of a shadow. The light caught on the grass front left is probably about where his shadow should be.