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Submitted: January 29, 2012
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Smogland Houndsby ~MarkBulahao

Digital Art / Drawings & Paintings / Sci-Fi

I started missing subdued palettes so I made this. :3 Hope you like it!

Critique by *Ranarh Jan 31, 2012, 6:03:40 AM

Smogland hounds by edictiv shows us a group of post-apocalyptic characters, enjoying themselves at a campfire. The scene is so intriguing because the setting is uncommon for the well-known subject of people around a campfire, someone brought a guitar, and there's something roasting on the spit. These guys, however, have brought their full armory, including a grenade launcher; faces are covered to protect against the environment; and the thing on the spit looks like a giant termite!

Technically, the execution shows profound skill. Edictiv has chosen a muted, but varied color palette with dominating blues, the silhouettes read clearly, the composition is well-balanced and has leading lines that work well. I still have some remarks: there are tangents between the bug's alignment and the green box that could have been avoided by turning either; and also between the brown-hooded guy's rifle and the tent. Regarding the silhouettes, the tip of the guitar vanishes a bit in front of the guys in the far back, and the barrel of the gun of the left-hand guy in front of the person further back. These are minor.
As for the color palette, it works great with the mood, setting and environment; I feel that they color spots could be better distributed. I don't quite know how, maybe if smaller spots of more colors appeared on the characters? The brown hood of the sitting guy stands out because of its saturation, as does the bug's head.

The photographic effect of the blurred foreground works well again, especially with the campfire story - someone's always taking a picture... The left-hand object in the blur are a bit too detailed and are hard to tell from the bags behind.

The diffuse, dim lighting is just right for the setting. The campfire is structurally okay, but it should throw a light on surrounding objects, and makes for a nice opportunity for some specular highlights, but that has been missed. This would be my major point of critique.

Conclusion: I greatly enjoy the ironic wink to the campfire ritual - maybe I'm also happy that humans will stick to tradition, even if they have to eat bugs while doing so...
The post-apocalyptic setting is very well thought up. It would be interesting to see more of this world in ruins Edictiv has come up with.

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Critique by ~Fershade Jan 30, 2012, 6:46:43 PM

First off, I would like to start with a...WHOA. I was just browsing/skimming through a few recent group submissions and I can tell you this really stuck out. My eye caught this almost immediately out of hundreds of other deviations. I enjoy the perspective of this piece very much, it gives it sort of a movie-like feel. The whole idea of the piece is spectacular was well from the hazy gray woods in the far background, right to the small details. I especially enjoy the roast over the fire (is that a termite?) and the exotic instrument that seems to be the focal point of this piece (or at least what my eye was drawn to first). Lovely job!