[Joachim]

Heya people,
I've been rather lazy lately with the posting....but anyway, I have still been drawing
I don't know if any of you recall that spaceranger I did, which I did because me and micke gave eachother some tasks that we thought the other one would struggle with. This time I have gotten a new assignment...to do "a roman and egyptian battleship at war" I never liked boats, so this was a good assignment to get ( I would guess chester, ewooz and micke will post there picture soon too).
here it is...

Well, happily we were allowed to find reference for this...because, who am I to know how a roman and egyptian battleship would look like? ..I was about to put cannons on, before I realised this was the time before gunpowder excisted.
here's the reference and inspiration I used...(incase anyone would be interessted in seeing that..not that it has any direct link with the picure though)


crits and comments are very welcome !

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[fusion]

those are wonderful! I've always loved old school sea battles. Is that a scan or did ya do it in photoshop? Either way its great work, I'd like to see more =)

fusion

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[Speve-o-matic]

I guess Micke thought wrong then eh? Because the only struggle I see going on is in the picture. Beautiful. I love your stuff. You rock Joachim, you really do.

- Steve

[Magicman]

Hi,

wow, amazing work. which masterpiece!

bye magicman

[Gecko]

Whoohaa, trying out new things is great. It's the best thing ever to happen to my painting habits, and thanks for that go to your example :)
I'd like to see the surface of water more defined, and fishnet-like reflections it might cast on the wooden sides. This painterly style of yours is getting much better. At some point it started to look spoogeish, but has now taken a way of its own.
The reference pics have also been put to good use. Huuu, I wonder if your games are gonna take advantage of the painting skills you guys have.

hmmrm.. im trying to find more to crit about, but the style of the pic is very solid.

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[janne]

yep. very very good!(and it's even better thing that you are experimenting with different stuff) sorry, can't think anything constructive to say

janne

[Binke]

WOW. This is amazing Joachim, you have improved alot! Very different from your usual work. Very very nice!!

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[Kreuze]

Wow!
You're one of my favorite artists on this forum.. if this was a struggle for you obviously won in the end

[Waldo]

That tiger/lion head sure would get a mouthful if the surf was up...

Cool pic Joachim. You've really captured the drama well. Stop being so lazy.

[burn0ut]

Fantastic!

[endrigan]

UHHHHH....you fucking rock man.......HOLY SHIT .This pic is one of the most well painted ,wonderful things I have ever seen posted here.

have a nice day

[Sempere]

I�m crying of emotion !!!

I love that SCENE !!!

Thanks to Mike by give you such task !!!

[eetu]

OI!

wonderful. ahh. what can i say :)

eetu.

[Bilbo]

[weeps like an old man in need of a new diaper.]

[TheMilkMan]

Very very good..very spoogish....isnt everthing painted well though....hope you post more as your work is very insperational!

[opticillusion]

jeez. It just clicks...nothing about it comes as out of place, or off. Colors, composition, angle...real nice work Joachim!

[Frost]

Nice work my friend. Like the colors and values... very well done! (oh, maybe the sails shouldn't be as thick... maybe some backlight might make its way through... but I could be wrong since I don't know what materials sails were made of...silk or pigskin?)

[This message has been edited by Frost (edited March 01, 2001).]

[Duckman2]

you call that struggling!

[Lukias]

Beautiful work.

I forgot who's thread I was going into and when seeing the pic initally thought it was a mullins piece. I think the opening pic on his site.

Anyway, no constuctive critisism.
Improving all the time

[Dthind]

WOW... hold on WOW....once more WOW... I smell the battle (if that is possible)...WOW

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[coil_weevil]

Joachim are you sure you've never painted battleships before, cause this is a nice piece...oddly reminant of Age of Empires...that's a good thing. Anyhow, great pic.

[Rhomb]

I love it! Can't come up with anything constructive either.

-Ville

[Rinaldo]

Whoa! that is seriously cool Joachim.
Give me a 1024x768 version and I'll have a new wallpaper^_^

very nice

[Capt.FlushGarden]

Kickimus Maximus Assimus heheheus

Veryus Niceus Boateuses Joachimous!

[Grendel Khan]

Wow Joachim! This is great!

I love the "3D" effect you've achieved in this image by giving more vivid colors to certain parts of the image (the "heads" of the ships).

Really inspiring.

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[Christer]

Wow Joachim, very nice!! All I can say about that..

Very inspiring piece.

-Christer

[BooMSticK]

yeah! Damn nice pic. As frost I think the sails look a little bit to heavy. Other than that its an awesome piece. Good job.
,Boom

[Simon Gustafsson]

Good Light!
I love them.
Mind if i move to Oslo and join you in these exercises? =)



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[Joachim]

wow, so many replies and so many kind words, I don't know where to begin. I would start to say thank you all.. !! -hope it's ok that I don't give a written thx to everyone, I'm still grateful.

gecko, yes I agree on that. I've always found water difficult to understand...so many different things to keep in mind.

frost, agree on that also. Probably they could look good being a bit more transparent. I too don't know what fabric they used at that time. But, it's more than 2000 years ago, so I would guess it's quite a bit thicker than they are today...but still, I think I could make them a bit more transparent.

To do these kind of exercises, is really good, I think. You are being forced to do something you'd think you're not capable of, but because it's something that you have agreed on doing, you can't back off. And, then you must do things a way you are usually not doing. Kinda like you thing a nose would look like that in that angle, but that's just because that's the way your brain works, but if you get the chance to do it differently because someone forces you too, you kinde learn you brain to understand that things are often different than you would think. SO, therefor, to do these kind of things can be really helpful. And, sometimes you can get surprised of yourself, personally I was surprised when I did this one. Though it has a lot of errors, I'm sure, I found it rather quick and easy to do. I don't think I spent more than about 4 hours on it.

sorry, I'm rambling.

gustav, hehe...yeah sure, come on over
We should have these kind of tasks here at the forum, I just don't know how we should have pulled it off...because it's important that everyone gets a task that is suited for the right artist (meaning abs. not suited) .

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[klaivu]

wow. no crits.