I originally started it as a doctor’s table from 1800s and then decided, heck why not Jack was considered at one point as been a doctor.
Anyone? You know this is a forum for help is it not? Or more to encourage the same people over and over again and well unless a newbie is exceptional they can buzz off?
What is there in the scene to link it to the popular imagining of JtR, apart from the almost unreadable paper in the bottom right corner ?
It doesn’t stand out as anything other than a table with some curiosities on it. The lighting looks flat so how about a bit of gaslight, a bloodstained scalpel, a pen with half written version of one of the JtR letters.
The image itself is pretty small so difficult to clearly what is what
I totally understand where you are coming from, but we must remember that this is a the finished Project section, so comments and critique and not a given, unless there is something that make people compelled to comment. Also, there are lots of good works that don’t get comments too, so you shouldn’t see it as a bad sigh as far as the quality of your work is concerned. If critique is important for you for the purpose of learning and getting better, then you should post it in Focused Critique.
As far as your work is concerned it’s in the middle zone slightly, it’s too good for a newb, so people wont feel compelled to ‘educate’ you. Yet it is not exceptional enough for people to make a fuss over. The only things letting it down though are very simple and easy to change. I think there is lack of contrast in the image, it looks very grey/washed out. While some Post pro will help (at the moment it looks like un-graded cinema footage), I think some lighting work is needed (it’s kinda flat) but also some of the textures are not working for me, like the wall and especially the table. I think the items individually look good though. Composition is almost there, it might be a bit ‘busy’ though, lacking a focal point.
But, apart from that, i think you have a potentially very nice scene here. my GF would love this, she reads murder magazines (bit worrying) so well done, your efforts have not been in vain. Keep at it.
First, this is an impression of Jack the Ripper’s office it isn’t his. He was more than likely a noble who had the money to pay people to keep their mouths shut for who would dare speak against a noble about nothing more than prostitutes.
As for popular imaging - there is none. The image that modern society connects with Jack is a top hat and a trench, or a leather apron if you go so far as to do some research into him and read the old London papers. And I don’t go off the Hollywood impressions as they never get anything right.
Unless of course you want me to model a disemboweled body [more than easy seeing as I am in medical studies and this is nothing more than a pass of time when bored] but I didn’t seeing as I could see people being too childish about a graphic gory scene.
As for the lighting, well of course it’s dark. That is the theme, a partially opened door and light pooling out from a sitting room to this room.
Jack the Ripper is suppose to be one of the notorious murders in England. I would be expecting some more blood work on the tools. It looks like that it’s still daylight but the room itself doesn’t reveal much lighting. Now if you were to darken the room more and let the only source of lighting was a lantern, it could provide more of a dark ambiance.