BandJob

Very nice. I love the background! So intense and full of energy. Really sets a great mood to the piece. I do have some suggestions though. To me, the gas mask character looks placed in the picture. He doesn't look like he is really set in that scene. Try messing with the levels of the shadows of him. Darken them up. That may help. (i attached a quick example) Obviously I don't have the original file, but you will want to darken stuff but keep the detail of the rain and embers. The gas mask near the bottom, looks to me as it needs touched up in the cutting out department, but that may be intentional for highlight purposes. Not sure. The left shoulder looks to have too hard of an edge as well. This is just my personal opinion, take it with a grain of salt.

Thanks for your feedback, what I try to do is highlight the main character a little to avoid being lost in the background, the background need be very bright so I try to force the view on the child, but may have to tweak it a bit to embed more in the image. and yes, the lights in the mask are intentional, I think that gives some strength to the character. I've noticed the same thing on the shoulder, and I also found it odd I thought it was a mistake, but no, the original photo also shows the same detail. sorry for my bad english, hope you can understand everything.

I like the image much better as the original with the light colors, brighter shadows and the soft screened light. I feel the image with the dark shadows and crazy contrast feels a bit overdone. The edge light on the figure makes it naturally fit into the scene without darkening the edges to hide them. Looking at this for a few minutes, I really like this piece, I feel the background could use a bit of work, somehow. Maybe adding a bit of blur to the background in some areas or bringing down the contrast and darkness of the shadow. Maybe if the black shadows were given a lighter purple feel? The original looks like it was done on purpose, the contrasting edit looks too forced and saturated, kills the mood. Very nice work, De.Surrogaart. -db

Thank you so much db I really appreciate your comment, I will work a little more in the background and perhaps on the edge of the character trying match it a little more into the background but not to much because the intention is focus the view on the character. Again thank you for your feedback! =D

most definitely, the piece i showed was way over done. i hope you didn't take it that it had look like that. i was just trying to show how darkening things would make it fit more into the piece. definitely way over board with the one i showed. haha. glad you got some more input on this. i look forward to seeing it re-worked.