A Face on Mars

[ffutures]

Is this at all convincing?

2nd version of this image - not sure yet if it will be black and white or colour, whichever I go with, it will probably be reduced in size considerably. I should also mention that Photobucket seems to have created some compression artifacts in hosting this one.

Comments

[nojay.livejournal.com]

The hair on the "head" looks wrong, distracting. The shadow on the left under the chin is too sharply defined for the ground it lies on.

The foreground characters should be faded in to the background a bit better -- they're obviously higher-resolution than the landscape which makes them look pasted-in. Their blacks are blacker than the landscape around them, higher in contrast.

It is an elegant conceit nevertheless.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Thanks - This reinforces my opinion that it doesn't quite work as is. I think the head needs to be bigger and further in the background, which will make it easier to blend it in. I'll make the hair into stone.