LoveDanielColin PokéArt & Photo

Jirachi said:
Wow! That looks awesome! Love the angle at which you took the photo. Good job :)
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thanks i was lucky that he stayed long enough to adjust the settings on my cam. he lives near the birdbath

Blui129 said:
D'awww at the awesome Praying Mantis.
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he is cute & tiny. we hang out always :3

HolyMackerel said:
Nice photos, I like the collage you did with the astronaut. And sorry about the terribly late reply to your comment on my art thread!
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thanks! im working on some more :)
 
Really do like all the PokéArt and Photos, LoveDanielColin. You've done a great job.

Let's talk about all your various styles of artwork.

Venomoth: What I like about this piece is that everything you incorporated into this art comes in unity. A small problem I noticed with this artwork is that Venomoth stands out a bit too much. Take HolyMackerel's advice, and you should be fine. :)

Space: Very unique piece of work. You incorporated both a drawing and a picture of your friends. The only thing I would recommend you doing is darkening the color of the different shapes in the background.

Backseat: Nice.

Embrace: When I was viewing the picture, I was a bit confused of why you made the entire picture blurry, only then I noticed that the small area in the background standing out, which I think you did a nice job with. You also defined the word nicely using that picture.

Pokéfear: This type of piece reminds me of the episode when Ash & Co. getting into a lot of trouble due to an evil Togepi. The colors red and black and also the sharp teeth are both incorporated showing the dark nature of this Togepi. Great job on this piece of artwork.

Spring Cleaning: Really do like the leaves and flowers, but they are a bit difficult to see due to the brightness being a bit too high.

Deep Space: What I really like about this picture is the transition from being blurry to sharp with the addition of various colors.

Gold: Another photo I enjoyed viewing. The type of texture, dark background, and the flash of the camera really made the piece stand out.

Baby Mantis: A nice capture of a mantis walking on a leaf. The picture really does show the mantis being main specimen in this beautiful piece.

I enjoyed viewing each and one of these pieces of artworks and will continue to follow this thread.
 
As a photographer, I've gotta critque these because everyone is putting them on a pedestal -but they're not that great. Are you ready? Don't get mad:

Venomoth: I don't even know. You've got a nice frame of cherry blossoms, but then it's washed out an a harsh outline vector of Venomoth is thrown in there. It's not very tasteful looking when you really get down to it. Maybe a different Venomoth, maybe a frame of flowers that wasn't washed out; try one of those

Space: N/A

Backseat: That lomo hipster color preset may look cool, but only to someone who couldn't take a picture well enough in the first place. Those tones are flat and they mute what happiness that seems to have been happening in that moment. Those light trails are unnatural, both because they're in a car that moves on a smooth surface, as well as how their brighter and more natural looking than the rest of the picture. Your balances and contrasts are way off. It would help to go study up on these things

Embrace: This could have been done way better, right? The frame and the web are so unnatural compared to the people who are vivid and.. well, real. Composite images containing natural and unnatural elements don't always go together. If the web had been from a photo of a real spider web, then it would have worked better. A better picture of your friends would have helped as well.

Pokéfear: I know that Togepi is a schizoid Pokemon, so I guess this works. It's too noisy though.

Spring Cleaning: This whole thing is over-exposed. What makes spring beautiful is the colors, and here you can't really see them. It looks like you took this right as an atomic weapon was detonated -and that's never a good look.

Deep Space: The blur isn't aesthetic here -it just shows that the photographer was lazy. Depth of field by all means can be pleasing to the eye, that's why it exists after all. Here however it fails because it's all the way in a tiny corner. In photography the eyes will be drawn to certain things like focus, and you have to consider this when you compose and capture an image.

Gold: Not a bad concept, but this could have been executed better. On something like this don't be afraid to get closer. In fact that's a very famous principal of photography. "If your photographs aren’t good enough, you’re not close enough." -Robert Capa. This would have been better if you stood on a chair or something to put it at eye-level, then gotten closer to frame all of that glass into the image. You could even leave some negative space all around it using the darkness, but like you did here.

Baby Mantis: With something so small it's important to get close. It's also nice that your picture feature the front of a subject, not it's back.



Let me explain the importance of critique: When I was kid no one criticized my work. People always told me that everything was great, neat, and very creative. All of that is very good when your like 2 to 8 years old. Without someone to pick at your head and make you think more critically, to give you more advanced ideas, then you'll never really grow to the potential you might have. This is a recent trend in the last few decades. No one wants to seem negative. No one wants to be 'that guy'. Everyone wants to be chill and not rock the boat. All of those things are good, though! Think about it: has any of that 'be positive' stuff worked well for a lot of people? If you say yes to that then shame on you. Don't be blinded by the feel-good everyone-is-a-unique-snowflake ideology. It will hold you back in your creativity.
 
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