PLATES..
Here are the plates after alot of adjusting/revising..please let me know what u think :-)
PLATE 5: GLUTTONY AND CONSUMPTION OF SITE
I have adjusted the colour/contrast of this image...more saturated now.
PLATE 4: LUST AND DISTORTION, OPTICAL ILLUSION AND CURVED SURFACE
Working on the flat image. I have tried to curve the space more and add more reflection to the grey space on the right to balance out the composition.
PLATE 3: WRATH AND CLASHING GEOMETRY/ SLOTH AND VOID
A revised version of the previous post I have tried to reduce the effect of layering by working with the light/ shadows and people hanging into the void..
PLATE 2: PRIDE AND CANTILEVER/ ENVY AND COMPLEXITY
As with the previous version, I have extended the canitlever into the foreground to accentuate it. The theme is the body as your temple. The pride is represented by the perfect figures at the end of the cantilever (represented by michaelangelo figures) . The people in the complex spaces below are working out like crazy, induced by envy, trying in vain to achieve perfection.
PLATE 1: GREED (RICH MATERIAL)
I tried to draw this as a shining jewel set into the peak. Like a diamond found in gravel.
quick quick comment - overall they are looking very good. plate 3 my favourite at the moment. plate 4 figures are too pale and too big so completely dominate the image. Let your formal and spatial qualities define the image first. Turn your people off until the image works on its own - then figure out how/where to place them. Also, the space itself seems to have lost quite a bit of depth. The one you had @ tutorials seemed to extend further back into the image-space. all are looking v good. With regards to your email and the canvas - i have no fully formed opinion....
Just saw that I didn't post this - sorry - was written Sat afternoon - is now Sun evening...
Plate 5:
I cannot see it well in the blog, so maybe my comment is not usefull... but for what I see, I was imagining a more consumption of site. I was imagining a more contrast scenarios between interios spaces with crowd eating, amazing food, shinny fruits... and then the exterior and the site consumed by trash, dirt... Basically a plate where the consumption of the site is visible as a consequence of the scenarios in the spaces.
Plate 3 and 2: I really liked them
Plate 1: I was imaginig a real box with the model sitting inside. A model that is a simplified version of Zaha's project, like an outline of Zaha's one... maybe carved out wood, gold leaves... your plate remind me the extasis of Saint Teresa by Bernini, but your focus is merging too much with the background, think how to make it visible as foreground...