Stone looks a bit too regular, expecially in the canyon. You needs some changes in elevation, rougher texture, etc, to make it stop looking like a quickly applied photoshop filter effect.
Creature itself looks faboo. One quibble, I'd give the mouth some sort of rough internal edge. Not teeth, but a few sort of slight bumps, ridges, to make it look more organic and like a mouth, which are pretty well never circular.
try looking at these pictures of a whale shark for mouth reference. See where I'm going with wanting a little more texture?
When I started work on the background, I expected to build some lumpy rocks on that flat texture and use it in the final. Eventually, it became clear that I wasn't going to pull that off, so this is definitely a placeholder background until I can freehand in some rocks instead.
Wow, a whole bajillion! Either the new one is awesome or the old one must have sucked. = )
Seriously, glad to hear it's an improvement. My mom looked at them both for me, and unfortunately she prefers the first one because the critter stood out better. I tried to explain that I'm pretty sure the second one is still better art, but it was a little tricky trying to explain why. She doesn't care how much something is cheaty photoshoppedness.
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Creature itself looks faboo. One quibble, I'd give the mouth some sort of rough internal edge. Not teeth, but a few sort of slight bumps, ridges, to make it look more organic and like a mouth, which are pretty well never circular.
try looking at these pictures of a whale shark for mouth reference. See where I'm going with wanting a little more texture?
http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/fish/Gallery/Descript/Whaleshark/rh.mouth_copy.JPG
http://www.arkive.org/media/F121C21F-3EAE-4078-B188-096F830F8515/Presentation.Large/%09%09%09%09%09%09%09%09%09%09large-Whale-shark-feeding.jpg
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Glad the critter is working well so far.
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http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c291/hwango/cow53a.jpg
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Seriously, glad to hear it's an improvement. My mom looked at them both for me, and unfortunately she prefers the first one because the critter stood out better. I tried to explain that I'm pretty sure the second one is still better art, but it was a little tricky trying to explain why. She doesn't care how much something is cheaty photoshoppedness.