Gingerbread Cottage with Lollypop Flowers

[Dart]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v495/Darty/gingerbreadcottage.png

Well, you've seen that other Hansel and Gretel picture of mine, and here now is the witch's gingerbread cottage, used to entice the wee laddie and lassie.

I've been looking at this picture for quite a while now and I can't find anything wrong with it. But, maybe you can, which is why I need your help.

By the way, the shading was done by Daz, so props to him.

[HillBilly]

The roof looks kinda like a snowy hill, and it looks like the path goes over the snow.

By the way, awesome work!

[aussie_unplugged]

By the position of the moon over those black trees, I think they should cast quite a long shadow over the garden.

Also, it looks like the path is higher than ground level behind the fence.

Minor points. Excellent work anyway.

[Sam.]

is that pink squooshy stuff cand floss? if so, make it more poofy. it looks a bit like pink snow.

[Shane 'ProgZmax' Stevens]

Looks very good, Darty!

[..]

Are those trees or clouds?

If they are trees like aussie said, they need to cast a long shadow, if they are clouds you need some background to the scene in front of them.

[InCreator]

Well... there isn't much to edit. It's a lovely scene.
I worked a bit on lights, shadows, snow and path.


original

...and edit

[Babar]

why is there light landing on the part of the roof that is away from the moon? Or is it another light source? Other than that, the transition of the path from the snow to shadow looks very drastic. Other than that, a delicious picture

after seeing increators edit, I realised that it is not exactly shadow, there is a tree and grass there. Like he suggested, you should brighten it a bit

[loominous]

Some quick lighting modifications:



A common mistake is to ignore the color of the light hitting the objects. Greys rarely exist as present in the original, because the light hitting the grey areas is colored.

The main color in the pic would be blue. This is due to the color of the sky, which is the lightsource that hits all (well, most) surfaces, even where the moon don't shine.

The areas the moon shines upon will have yellow added to them. If they hit the same areas that the sky does, they will become greenish since blue+yellow=green. Same goes for the light that shines out through the windows.

Placing the moon in the back, means that most objects will lay in shadow, so while it's nice to see the moon, the picture won't be very well lit (atleast at nighttime).