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Message: <blockquote data-quote="James Heard" data-source="post: 3557058" data-attributes="member: 7280">I'm not a big fan of the text. I like the font, but I think it probably needs to be played with until it's a lot clearer. It would also probably help if you went back over the original pencils in digital too, just to even out the transition. You've obviously got a lot of fine details that you're struggling to recapture, and sometimes I think the only way to really get them back is just to trace over them by hand once it's on the computer because of the fuzziness Photoshop tends to lend when you're just trying to make things "darker" in the myriad ways it's able to. While you were at it, a little bit of variations in color tones in the dragon that you could do with some really faint, soft bushes might make it seem more "alive." If it seems like you're suddenly at "too much color" I think you're still better off keeping the variations and then desaturating the image to tone it down. Finally, I think you've got such a nice dragon sketch going on I think that it might look pretty cool if you did a little more with the map in general. Make sure it's a little more centered on the canvas and it might be ultra-cool to skew/perspective the thing and see if you can't add some additional depth to the image like you've already started on by having the dragon's tail lick the map like that. You could even pull the whole thing up toward the top then and work on a snazzy "spill" from the oceans.I don't have as much problem with the background as other people seem to. I think the issues aren't so much with the background as the picture needing to bring the viewer's focus definitely to a single point on the map and then pull the eye around in a way that the background could be anything.</blockquote>

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