Sijun Forums :: View topic - My desktop and my garden. (new pic, please crit)

henrik · Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2001 12:45 am

Ok. I lied. They're not either my desktop nor my garden. But I would like that.
Please crit... I'd love to hear what's good and what's not.

And my garden. Well it's not finished. But i put it here anyways. Didn't want to start a new thread in the "in progress" forum. Thought I might as well put it in here.

The desk without the sunlight:

http://go.to/penk

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Flinthawk · Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2001 2:15 am

Wow, nice stuff there. I'm too tired and rushed to bother looking for anything wrong with these and even if I did I probably wouldn't find much. Really dig the details like the shadows casting on the mousepad and what-not. Keep up the good work.

Ah, well, looking at them one last time I'm thinking that the bright area in the water could be cleaned up further. Right now the tiny brush strokes are taking away the fluidity and smoothness of the surface of the water. Yeah, I know that's really picky but based on the rest of your images I think you can clean that up a bit, make it look a little less sketchy.

Regardless, very nice images.

-Flinthawk

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Flinthawk · Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2001 2:25 am

Ok, I know I said I was in a rush but when I see good work I have to check to see if there's a site with more of it...and I'm glad I did. You've got some really great stuff!

Just checked out your images and your quickie tutorial. The images are awesome, I like the first couple images in particular. One of your images, the robot one that you say needs to be finished yet, looks a lot like Capt.Flushgarden's man eating an apple. The tutorial was nicely laid out and that trick to get the cool lighting is awesome...I'll have to do my own experiments along those lines.

Anyways, just thought I'd tell you that. Hope to see more stuff from you.

-Flinthawk

Hightop · Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2001 2:54 am

the first one almost looks real....
i really dig the shadow on the mouse....
looks like a tree outside the window...
i mean the shadow...

the garden also looks really good...

NeroX · Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2001 4:47 am

whaaat? thats your garden? o dear...I'm jealous!

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Bubonic · Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2001 4:55 am

amazing job henrik,

your eye for detail is astounding.. from the lil buttons on the top of you monitor to the photoshop layers on the screen.. truly an amazing peice of artwork. and your lighting is on point..

Only thing that i see wrong is that cd on the desktop next to the marker.. looks a bit flat.. hehe..j/k

really nice garden, the reflection in the water is really nice and the bushes are well rendered..

great job man, can't wait to see more from you

Enayla · Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2001 5:05 am

I'm so completely in love with the garden

I have nothing to critisise on and I actually like the way the water looks.

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henrik · Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2001 9:01 am

Hey there. Thanks for the response.
As I said earlier, the garden is yet to be finished. But i'll work on it.
About the CD, yeah it's kinda skewed. But I hope I got the colors correct. I did it pretty fast, so...
Thought I'd might show you the robot Flinthawk mentioned.

It's not finished! I did this in just one evening, so there are a lot of things to do. I was thinking about adding metallic wings to it. Or something like that...

Vesuvius · Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2001 9:15 am

I love the dappled (is that a word?) light in the first pic- the way it spatters over the area as if through tree leaves is great and gives the picture a great setting (near a window with leafy trees in summer maybe) without going and literally showing those things. I like.

Krazy · Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2001 2:29 pm

marvelous, you say you had a homepage? url plz

i llove your dtailed wter very nice

henrik · Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2001 11:33 pm

My homepage sucks. http://go.to/penk

Aye Captain! Jag blev ganska n�jd med solljuset sj�lv.

nori · Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2001 12:09 am

you're right, your webpage does suck. However, your art is amazing. That's all that matters

Capt.FlushGarden · Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2001 12:39 am

Hej Henke!

j�vligt grymma bilder! gillar soljuset p� "skrivbords bilden"
din robot ser ju n�stan ut som min ju!

(i'm speaking swedish here, okay!?!)

Freddio · Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2001 1:10 am

Ilike the first one..

alhought helighting through the window sort of wrecks it. because its hard tomake out that it is a shadow..
good pics..

Moonlord · Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2001 9:29 am

wow, nice light-effects!
...especially like the window area in the first pic, as if there was real sunlight