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ceenda · member Member # Joined: 27 Jun 2000 Posts: 2030

I was basically just sketching out ideas, and decided to take this one into Photoshop for a bit of refining. I'm not sure whether it's really interesting enough to be worth finishing off as a painting. Any suggestions would be appreciated, perhaps ideas for an extra subject to add to the composition.

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NoXious · Posted: Fri Mar 29, 2002 5:12 pm

Wow man thats amazing !!!!

and your website portfolio is KICK ASS!

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Hunago · Posted: Fri Mar 29, 2002 7:43 pm

Great, I love it. Could add some birds circling in the distance, and might make the tip of sword resting on the ground, so he don't have to hold all the weight?

chrono1 · junior member Member # Joined: 24 Jan 2002 Posts: 25

Pretty nice. Maybe put some sort of foreground in with explorers just discovering this statue.

razzak · member Member # Joined: 25 Jan 2002 Posts: 183 Location: -

nice effect, very powerful image but the mountain looks a bit square, doesnt it?

Iyidin_Kyeimo · Posted: Sat Mar 30, 2002 1:08 pm

My only crit is that the head looks a bit small (though that is probably intentional). Looks great!

wigin · Posted: Sun Mar 31, 2002 11:03 am

cool i like i like.. add some birds in there.. or something.. maybe some flying ship ,,, just giving some ideas,,,

henrik · Posted: Sun Mar 31, 2002 11:43 am

Forgive me, I'm just very bored today.

Golongria · Posted: Sun Mar 31, 2002 1:13 pm

Hey Ceenda...man, this is looking really rad! I'm diggin' the whole look of it. The only thing I really noticed in your version that Henrik really improved is the mountains on top of the moutain statue. In yours they look really out of proportion (really small) because we have nothing to compare them to. In Henrik's, the small aircraft, etc., give us a reference to the size of the whole thing, and as a result, the mountains look like they are these huge things in the distance. If you don't want to take the same route as Henrik, you could try adding some really light blue to make the mountains look like they are in the distance. I'm away from my comp. until tomorrow, otherwise I'd do a repaint to show you what I mean. Hope this helps

Bg · Posted: Sun Mar 31, 2002 2:06 pm

Nice pic Ceenda and Henrik, that's a damn fine overpaint, please be bored more often

I would also go for more dramatic perspective, and the sword bugs me, I have never seen a sword shaped like that. Usually the blade gets only thinner and thinner, not thin at the start and broad in the end.. I think I'm rambling, this repaint should explain what I'm saying about the sword (and the perspective):

turnip · Posted: Sun Mar 31, 2002 3:16 pm

tehe reminds of my Tyreal =)

Strawberrysauce · member Member # Joined: 04 Feb 2001 Posts: 356

wow! - was gona say that some perspective on the mountain would look cool, but i think Henrik nailed it.

love the image, both the original and the overpaint

Dryfire · Posted: Mon Apr 01, 2002 10:49 pm

Hey, great to see a painting by you, haven't seen your art in a while. Looks great man, awesome concept! I think it looks great as is, but if you want to add more, one way to go is to have that huge mountain, above clouds that are hanging over a huge valey or plains sort of landscape, with the sentry rising above everything. hmm maybe a repaint when i get home if i'm not clear =)

P'tit Ben · Posted: Tue Apr 02, 2002 7:43 am

all those images are purely amazing!

ceenda · member Member # Joined: 27 Jun 2000 Posts: 2030

Thanks for all the crits and comments everyone!

chrono1: Yup, I liked that one best!

henrik: Wow! That is awesome, the sense of scale is great!

Bg: Come to Scotland, and I will show you a claymore. Pah! Who needs swordplay when you can swing a broad-head in a figure of eight and walk in a straight line!

I really like the perspective in that paintover though!

Dryfire: Thanks!

Where is Paintchat thesedays??? I tried drawsomething.com, but I get a domain box in the password section which I can't fill in.

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ken · Posted: Thu Apr 04, 2002 9:58 am

i figure the broad-head adds more weight to the blade, so you get more momentum on your swing. right?

man i suck at painting. that looks nothing like slave i...

oh, btw, the foreground element is what you really needed, ceenda, the picture looks great now. and henrik... wooooo

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-Ken

Mharett · Posted: Thu Apr 04, 2002 3:08 pm

very cool! love the etchwork on the sword.

mhar

Basement bound · Posted: Thu Apr 04, 2002 5:49 pm

I find these are all great. Funny how some images ispire others to come up with some fantastic versions. Keep it up everyone.

JA

Ceenada, your updated image looks great, it just leaves me wanting to see more (of what is around). I hope that you a concidering doing a series on this.

[666]Flat · Posted: Fri Apr 05, 2002 12:16 am

VERY NICE WORK EVERYBUDDY

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