Need your help with my Pegasus

[AlexandraR]

I created this picture not long ago. I love it but i kinda feel stoke with the shadow of my Pegasus. Does it look good to you or does anyone has idea of what I could do?

Thank you for your help

 

[Hoogle]

I would add a slight gaussian blur to it

 

[AlexandraR]

I tryed the gaussian blur but i think i did something more cause the effect it gave me was not great but thank you i will try

 

[Hoogle]

Or maybe just grab the blur tool and blur just the edges of the shadow a small amount

 

[Tom Verlaeren]

Nice one!

 

[5600k]

Thats pretty cool. I think the shadow is too sharp like Hoogle said and too long. It could use a lot of blur.. But more on the farther end and less near the legs.. Attenuate the blur in the direction of the shadow. Even the opacity should reduce as it gets farther away from the pegasus since the lighting seems pretty diffused and the best reference to use is other objects in the picture itself. You can barely see any long shadows in there so i'd say thats your best reference But its definitely a great image. Im excited to see how it turns out!

EDIT:As it turns out i had some free time to kill and i played around with your image and i kinda felt like the shadow would be pretty diffused going by the shadowing seen on the rest of the image. This is where it got me. But feel free to disagree

PS: please ignore the weird sort of blurry look of the shadow area as i did a pretty bad clonestamp job on it to remove ur shadow

 

[AlexandraR]

Thank you for all your advices

So here is the new version of my pegasus.
What do you think?(especially the shadow part )

 

[spokymatrix]

For my taste the shadow does not match the light source, also apply gaussian blur, and finally would couple the image (crntl + alt + shift + E) would put that layer in soft light and give a gausian blur, so that all this more blurred.
Sorry for my English traslator use google.

 

[Dataflow]

i agree.
you need to take note of the shadows in the rest of the scene (there are none)
its a cloudy day and clouds create light which wash out any shadow you might get from the sun.

 

[spokymatrix]

i agree.
you need to take note of the shadows in the rest of the scene (there are none)
its a cloudy day and clouds create light which wash out any shadow you might get from the sun.

Then spare the shadow of Pegasus

 

[Dataflow]

i think the second last image is more correct then the others

 

[ibclare]

5600K -- and everyone else -- has the right idea. As has been noted, when there is virtually no sunlight, there is virtually no shadow. There will still be subtle shadows: if there is any light, there is shadow. In this case, as 5600K demonstrates, very little, maybe even less would work.