> Also, something about the lava (which I associate with places like Hawaii)
> rather than ash/steam, and the light color of the water makes me think
> 'tropical' which is incongrous with the snow.

Good point. I was basing the water colour on some documentary footage I saw, 
but of course that was filmed in hawaii. The lava I'm not so sure about, 
surely there's no reason you can't get lava in cold climates?

I think your comments on shape and how far away it is have hit the nail on 
the head, I've not really thought about the scale of the scene. I have some 
fog on the mountains behind the volcano, and was going to have some steam 
coming off the water in the foreground, but I think in any case I need 
something giving a depth cue on the volcano itself. Incidentally, at the 
moment I think the water is the ocean, and we're in a fairly cold climate, 
but I might change it to a lake if the image starts going that way.

Thanks for the links, that'll save me the trouble of looking for some good 
reference photos!

-- 
Tek
http://evilsuperbrain.com

"Charles C" <nomail@nomail> wrote in message 
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> I'm sure our ideas on what a volcano should look like will differ with 
> what
> kind of mountains are nearby.  For me, here are the two I think of first
> when I think 'volcano'since they're the neighborhood mountains (climbed
> Helens, skied Hood.) They probably won't be much help for lava realism
> though.  I agree with Darren about the symetry & verticality.  Hood is
> fairly conical but still a lot flatter and irregular than how your 
> mountain
> is now.  St Helens apparently was once noted for how symetrical it was
> (prior to what it's most famous for - it's 1980 dissappearance of it's
> top). :
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_St._Helens
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mt._Hood
>
> Also, something about the lava (which I associate with places like Hawaii)
> rather than ash/steam, and the light color of the water makes me think
> 'tropical' which is incongrous with the snow. If the snow is due to
> elevation I would expect foothills or something to show that the body of
> water is a mountain lake or something.   On the other hand,  in response 
> to
> Darren, Mt St Helens is an example of an active volcano that does have
> snow.
>
> Hmm, anything else... How far away is it?  Maybe some haze?
>
>
> Charles
>
>
> "Tek" <tek### [at] evilsuperbraincom> wrote:
>> Following my earlier post I've decided to go with the volcano image. This 
>> is
>> the latest version, but I'm suffering a case of povver's block! I can see
>> the volcano looks bad, but I don't know why. Any suggestions?
>>
>> --
>> Tek
>> http://evilsuperbrain.com
>
>
>

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