Sijun Forums :: View topic - Nekkid jungle babe with fishes *minor update*

balistic · Posted: Sat Nov 24, 2001 9:09 pm

Well, mostly naked:

I started this piece today for a couple reasons:

A - all my female friends are either out of town for the holiday or have to work.

and

B - today was the grayest, blandest, most desaturated day I have ever seen. Its cold, wet, and achromatic. BLEH!

So, being both horny and starved for color, this is what I came up with. Its based on a sketch I did a few years back for a videogame some friends and I were developing. She's one of a band of nature worshipers, and belongs to the same universe as the tree devil.

I'd say I'm about half-way done . . . still got some anatomy issues to work out, and want to refine things a bit.

Comments are most definitely appreciated.

And yes, I'm aware that I paint a lot of busty, back-lit brunettes. Maybe some art major will write their thesis on it after I'm dead.

*edit* fairly minor update, still not finished . . . something needs to happen with her torso *bleh*

[ December 05, 2001: Message edited by: balistic ]

Seph|roth · Posted: Sat Nov 24, 2001 9:25 pm

Hey balistic,
This is looking realy good man !
I really like it a lot, cant wait to see the final version, I'm sure it'll be amazing !
Keep up the nice work man, oh btw, you've improved a lot since the last time I came on !
Keep em coming !

Shaded · Posted: Sat Nov 24, 2001 9:53 pm

Oh good bloody lord, the colors on this kick ASS...

Well done!

tdl · Posted: Sat Nov 24, 2001 11:49 pm

Beautiful painting, I love it, I'd only work out two things:

1) the spear she's holding seems to be drawn as if it was parallel to us, but her body position seems to indicate it's diagonal. Keep an eye on perspective.

2) Work out her mid section a little more, the left edge of her suit should probably go a little higher. That part of her body is a little strange, the rest is pretty much great as it is; maybe change the contour of the right side a bit (her left).

Can't wait to see it finished.

edit: just noticed that her left breast seems a little too sideways for her torso position.

[ November 24, 2001: Message edited by: tdl ]

Freddio · Posted: Sun Nov 25, 2001 12:43 am

nice work..

[ November 25, 2001: Message edited by: Freddio ]

Anthony · Posted: Sun Nov 25, 2001 12:53 am

Looks good. Shouldn't the reflected light on her leggings be a cool color instead of flesh tones? It's bouncing off the water

Little Beefucker · Posted: Sun Nov 25, 2001 3:29 am

Right on. I think the best thing is that, sexy or not (to each his own, blah blah), this girl is perfectly sculpted. Not in a bedworthy vixen way, but as far as ratios and that "natural" look. Very jungle. Very Fiji. Not your heroin catwalker. : )

And like these other guys said, great color! Love the sketchy look. Half-finished works ding my joy button, so my suggestion is to leave it and consider your daily art quota reached. Ha!

balistic · Posted: Sun Nov 25, 2001 7:27 am

Thanks guys! I'l take your feedback into consideration when I have time to paint on her some more . . . will post an update when I'm finished.

Highfive · Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2001 1:59 am

The lighting in this is great, balistic! Same crits as everyone else on this one.

Did you ever read a Conan comic called Devourer of the Dead, balistic? Your tree devil reminds me of this huge elephant-sized beast that featured in it. Your creation looks much better, but I'm just curious if you were inspired by it.

balistic · Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2001 8:58 am

Never read that one highfive . . . I've never really been into Conan . . . I don't dislike it, its just not something I've seen much of. My latest comic crush is Kishiro's "Aqua Knights" . . . there's some amazing design work in that one.

burn0ut · Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2001 12:23 am

wow thats awesome balistic.
i love that bright light in there..
hmm damn good work

egerie · Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2001 2:59 pm

yes like everyone said it's quite amazing ! Solid colors and all. But best of all.. REAL proportions ! Real breasts ! FINALLY !!

Bishop_Six · Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2001 4:58 pm

Looks nice, balistic. I think you should be able to see some light shining on the back of her left thigh. Can't find anything else to crit. Looking forward to the final painting.

Shiro_tengu · Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2001 7:38 pm

I love the lighting and the chubbness of the girls figure. Nice and refreshing

balistic · Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2001 8:54 pm

*bump cuz I updated it*

Francis · Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2001 9:41 pm

That's really cool. I wonder if there should be more of the sunlight influence on the water? It appears that the sunlight coincidentally stops right where the water begins. I would try a little paintover, but I know I would massacre it.

balistic · Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2001 8:14 am

thanks Francis. Yeah, what I plan to do is have a hot zone of brighter green closer to the shore, which fades off towards the viewer . . . since this is pretty murky water, I'll probably cast some proper shadows on it too. I'm also going to have some bits of vegitation in the foreground to try and set up a bit more depth. I thought some big water lilies might be nice, but I need to try 'em on a seperate layer before I commit to that. I may add some rocks to the beach too.

Somebody stop me if I start getting too noodly with this thing

Dryfire · Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2001 9:07 am

Hey man, thats lookinggreat, i think you should make some more contrast on her right leg though... maybe a bit darker on the right side.. looks awesome so far man!

Tarandon · Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2001 4:56 pm

Belly Button?

mucha · Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2001 5:01 pm

great pic.
But the postion of her right "her left" arm is bugging me. It looks realistic. I thinks its the composition that i dont like though.

/agree on the belly button =P

Artgolem · Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2001 8:26 pm

Nice piece. Couple of things stand out to me: 1) The perspective on the spear seems awkward to me. You might consider making the butt end narrower (perhaps about half the current width) to help force it. 2) I agree about the light on the water. That's all for now. Again, nice pic!

-Matt

Darkmoon · Posted: Sun Dec 09, 2001 11:46 pm

i dunno where your getting your breast reference, left one (our left) is good, but right... hmmm does this jungle have a plastic surgeon? make it look less like a bubble more like a saggy boob like the other one...

and who said that girl was chubby? ILL KICK YOUR ASS that is not chubby...

oh and one nipples bigger than the other... or looks like...

i love the colors, love the concept, love the fish and i REALLY LOVE her costume things those leg things are super sweet... i want some... hook me up...

-Lisa

balistic · Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2001 8:47 am

"i dunno where your getting your breast reference, left one (our left) is good, but right... hmmm does this jungle have a plastic surgeon? make it look less like a bubble more like a saggy boob like the other one..."

I think one breast looks more "bubble-ish" than the other mostly because of the the little specular highlight I've got on it to make it look wet . . . I'll futz with that. We had models in figure drawing that had implants . . . *shudder*

"and who said that girl was chubby? ILL KICK YOUR ASS that is not chubby..."

You go girl

"i love the colors, love the concept, love the fish and i REALLY LOVE her costume things those leg things are super sweet... i want some... hook me up..."

*pimpmode*

Sure, I'll make you some . . . we'll need to do a custom fitting though . . . when can I expect you?

*endpimpmode*

Sorry this is taking so long guys . . . Wolfenstein is eating my free time.

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