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Staff Sarge · Posted: Sat May 12, 2001 9:46 am

Just a fast experiment with Paintbrush Tool which I'm not so familiar with (yet).

[edit: almost forgot, here's the highres version]

[ May 12, 2001: Message edited by: Staff Sarge ]

Matt Ryan · Posted: Sat May 12, 2001 12:14 pm

ohh, very nice work. i did a piece with dunes in it (its somewhere here on sijun), but its not nearly as realistic as yours.

Poprocksz · Posted: Sat May 12, 2001 12:24 pm

are you sure you're not familiar with that tool? love the foot prints and the blurry
vision of the person walking in the distance

Kinda makes me feel like I'm stuck out there with him.........very nice....

[ May 12, 2001: Message edited by: Poprocksz ]

waylon · Posted: Sat May 12, 2001 1:17 pm

Hey, that's really nice. Got a crit, though. The perspective on the footprints is kind of off, I think. It sort of looks like we're seeing them from straight above, when really, it would be more like a 45 degree angle. Or.. hmm. Maybe it's just that there's too much contrast in the footprints. (dry sand tends to smooth out the edges when you step in it. This looks more like he's leaving footprints in mud.) In any case, the overall effect is really good. Just that one little detail that I think could use a little work.

Staff Sarge · Posted: Sat May 12, 2001 3:44 pm

Popz, Matt, danke sch�n. hmm.. I might take a look at your dune-work if you still have it online.

Waylon, thanks, you're the Man; The perspective was definitely off, I wonder how come I didn't see it immidiately.. I did some additions, adjustments and corrections. Refresh the view if you can't see the new version.

I have to mention as an excuse that I have never seen a real desert in real life nor I did study any dune-photos or anything, that could be identified as a reference, before I started to paint this. I just sat down, grabbed my Wacom pen and happily doodled away (spent about 5hrs now).

Alan · Posted: Sun May 13, 2001 4:51 am

I like this pic

It has a nice mood and conveys that mood simply yet elegantly.

-Alan

Eric Pommer · Posted: Sun May 13, 2001 5:12 am

Hey Sarge, nice to see something new from you. I love the way, as always, you take a tiny little figure and place him realistically into a huge landscape!
The detail on the pillar looks great, but something about the shadow looks off to me. I thought it was the height of it, but I can't pin it down exactly.

Staff Sarge · Posted: Tue May 15, 2001 12:38 pm

Up! [from page 3, wow]

I'm now finished with this one, the ruins are new addition and I did some slight adjustments/fixes.

Alan, what is 'elegant'? j/k, thanks for the comment, heh.

Well, Eric, I tried to use the same character that ventured in my first landscape. He's so small though that he could be anybody. Right. I tried to fix the shadow, methinks it's.. at least different now. Hope you like it better this time.

Jezebel · Posted: Tue May 15, 2001 1:34 pm

You know... this is very very nice. I like it a lot. I've tried drawing sand dunes before and I always have a really difficult time! Good work

Beth

-Tepox- · Posted: Tue May 15, 2001 2:45 pm

Nice painting Staff Sarge. I think the values are pretty right and the ruins works fine also. Btw. Your using of paintbrush looks good to me!

Collosimo · Posted: Tue May 15, 2001 5:15 pm

Those footprints rock! really great..

::Dino:: · Posted: Tue May 15, 2001 5:18 pm

I likes

waylon · Posted: Tue May 15, 2001 5:22 pm

Big improvement! Me gusta mucho!

Dryfire · Posted: Tue May 15, 2001 6:48 pm

nifty

shardik · Posted: Tue May 15, 2001 6:58 pm

i agree with waylon.. cept maybe the sand of the footprints shifted.. and thats why they are off

Staff Sarge · Posted: Wed May 16, 2001 3:03 am

Wow, lot's of comments!

Thanks Jezebel, this is my first attempt playing with dunes. I don't think they're too difficult, it's just simple shapes and values you need to deal with. You could take mountains for comparison, those are quite tricky, not so easy as one might think.

Tepox, I tried to find the right values this time. Still, I think I need a lot of practice and study. Thanks anyway for noticing that.

Collosimo, Dino, waylon, Dryfire, Viele Danke!

shardik, this is the third version of the landscape, since the first I tried to fix the footprints. Do they still look wrong? Hmm.. well, next time I'll make sure they're alright right at the beginning. I don't think they'd shift in such a way/short time, but...