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i really like the colors texture and mood of the second. it's soft, but gritty; controlled, yet painterly. beautifully pensive.

very bright, nkummel. in fact, the background is so brilliantly saturated, that I think it detracts a bit from your main subject. That warring between the background and foreground hurts the eyes. I ...

GREAT texture and color. I'm glad you didn't go any more realistic. It's much more visually interesting and expressive this way. Kudos! I'll be looking into more of your work. Smile

Has anyone heard about the two upcoming batman movies?

I heard one is a Wolfgang Peterson project (air force one, perfect storm), and involves Superman.

The other is Darren Arnofsky (Pi, Requiem for ...

No one gets their lines right the first time. Unless they've drawn that object thousands of times.

A couple pieces of techique advice, perhaps just rewording some good ideas that have already been me ...

I have a series of questions on how artists' rendering skills develop.

We can draw simple forms like boxes, set up still-lifes, draw our friends, and our furniture, even go to figure drawing sessions ...

It's a rare case where you should do a job without a contract. Even with friends, you should seriously think about making a contract, as experience for you as an artist, and your friend as a client. A ...

Well, one of the problems with coming up with your own style at a forum like this, is that there is a narrow focus of what acceptable styles are. If you gather the most popular and praised pieces here ...

Yeah, this topic comes up every so often. Truth be told, most people recognize art first as representational stuff, and only think about the other kinds of visual expression later on. I like seeing al ...

I did a similar project for a small music promotion agency. Keep in mind that with a logo you're basically handing over all reproduction rights, so you'll want to charge accordingly. I charged this co ...

The scout facing us looks kind of jolly... spoils the mood of ambush images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif
quote Remind me to work in a higher resolution next time
Ok, do so.

nice textures and colors. Looks like wood stain over painted wood. How'd you get that?

Well, the hand really gives a sense that the viewer is part of the scene, but on the other hand it looks like the hand is going to bean the scouts on the head with a rock or something. In the bottom o ...

i'm assuming psp4 means photoshop v4? It's an old version, but still is a powerful image-editing and painting program. If you want to learn all it's features, then 1)Read the manual, 2)Read another bo ...

I think Bg's point was only tangentially about color. His main point was that the composition could be a lot better. If the piece is about scouts watching a tower, make it more about the scouts and to ...

By itself this picture lacks interest. It looks like an unfinished study. Not quite finished enough, not quite stylized or rough enough. However, I don't think you whould work on this particular sheet ...

Hmm. I agree with Keto - the face needs work. Also, I don't think you've captured his scale well enough here. You got that little guy on the right, but he might just be smaller because he's farther ba ...

It's like saxophone players all trying to sound like Charlie Parker or John Coltrane. It's boring to listen to after a while, and you want to hear the voice of the person actually playing.

But you've ...

for sketching, a #2 yellow school pencil works for me, or a wax crayon if that's handy. Actually, I usually sketch with a uni-ball vision pen.

For finer drawings I'll use a range of pencils from 6H t ...

In general burnOut (this applies to shape and form as well as line) sharp, thick, angular lines seem more aggressive and tension filled, masculine some would say, whereas smooth curving lines are more ...

In my own life drawings, I have a tendency to "dig in" as objects recede and let up as they come forward. This makes thicker lines as objects recede into the paper and thin lines as they emerge out. I ...

Like Sumaleth said, just practice a lot. Wear down about 100 pencils. Then try to draw from your mind.

I haven't read the Edwards book, but I hear it's as much about psychology as drawing. Does it me ...

This reminds me a lot of John R. Neill's illustrations from the Oz books. Updated with a little computer feel, especially in the gradient of the sky. You should look up those books if you haven't.

As ...

a very airbrushed looking style. Like the caricature artists you find at malls and amusement parks.

I'd say about 7/8 of my posts on the forum have been critiques. I'm fairly modest about my own work, and don't think it fits in the greatest here, but I really enjoy giving helpful feedback to other a ...

sweet. always nice to see a fresh interpretation.

I like the cropped image better. The wall in the background is freaking me out. The view of the figures suggests an extreme perspective, but the wall ...

LeChuck: that was the assignment, ants being viol images/smiles/icon_wink.gif

gowansy, thanks for the cheer, some areas are intentiaonally left unclear or fuzzy or confusing. I was trying to Focus ...

pretty cool. could use a more dramatic light source, but that's just a compositional decision, not right or wrong.

My big question though, is which leg is in front and which is in back? The arrangeme ...

I like the sketchy quality of it - adds a grainy grittiness. Detracting from that however, the face seems to have a scared expression, not a mean tough one. Also, the way you've rendered the forehead ...

A chapter screen I just finished for a computer game, and the first epic battle scene I've ever done. Created mostly in Painter:

http://www.dunakin.com/misc/chapter2.jpg

Dean