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Matt Ryan · Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2003 8:59 pm

havent posted in a long time, but here is some stuff from this quarter at shool. ill try so scan some life drawings or more sketches if i remember some time. ok, all the wierd blue bg's are for a short i did called "a bards tale", those and the 2 really colorful backrounds are for the same class. Some of them are not worth posting tho, hehe.the other stuff is for my character and object design class.tell my what u think plz. thanks

COMPUTER PAINT

CHARACTER& OBJECT DESIGN

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Sumaleth · Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2003 11:00 pm

Very nice. I particularly like the snow scenes - they show some strong composition.

No crits.
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Hyptosis · member Member # Joined: 24 Jan 2002 Posts: 507

Yeah, you're too much. Just about all of that is what I dream of being able to do. Thanks for sharing the work.
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Mon · Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2003 12:11 am

I agree with suma, that first one is absolutely wonderful!

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sparth · Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2003 12:13 am

amazing winter scenes!
i love it. Shocked

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lunae dies · Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2003 3:07 am

Mann... you're landscapes are wonderful!

I love all the craggy bits and sharp edges and textures.
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pierre · Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2003 3:17 am

I do agree with the guys matt, your stuff looks very good, keep that style. I especially agree with the composition comment, I think you do have a good sense of getting the balance right in a pic, and that is so important, the rendering may be that of a God, but if the composition fails, the pic will fail. Keep up the good work!

Max · Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2003 4:10 am

WOAH!!
Amazing,..... those winter scenes are simply amazing!
The winter images would be great concepts for mattepaintings.
Keep on doing such great stuff please!

wasssup · Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2003 5:48 am

keep it up man, they are really amazing!

pierre: well said Smile

crazybread · Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2003 11:02 am

SUPA COOL. I like your style my man!
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Matt Ryan · Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2003 1:53 pm

thanks for the response guys, its really appreciated. ill try to post more art in this thread soon, maybe today.

Sumaleth: No crits?! haha jk. thanks for the comments
Hyptosis: ive been painting backrounds all quarter, so i definately improved. the work i have seen from you is pretty nice, keep it up.
Mon: thank you, your work is amazing btw Shocked

. on a side note, Im going to try to apply to some d20 publishers soon, any tips? thanks for the comments
Sparth: Your work has really inspired me sparth, your colors own! thanks for the comments man.
Lunae Dies: thank, hehe i tried out a bunch of different brushes, which helped me alot. Also i guess i kinda cheated with some of the textures, i took a photo, greyscaled it, and put it as like an overlay or multiply layer at 5-10% to get some extra texture.
Pierre: Very true words you speak about composition and design. THank you, and you have a great style yourself btw.
Max Kulich: haha, thanks, id love to try a matte painting one of these days, not at that level yet though. hopefully soon Smile

Wasssup: thank you, great tank paintings in the speedpainting thread.
crazybread: thank you.
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henrik · Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2003 8:51 pm

Very nice Matt. Composition is superb.
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Matt Ryan · Posted: Sat Jun 21, 2003 9:43 pm

thanks henrik, i love your stuff, its amazing. ok here are some of my drawings from this quarter. as you can see i really need to work on anatomy. i think most of these are between 3 to 6 minutes. the head is like 15. any crits would be appreciated, thanks!

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geoman2k · Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2003 3:36 pm

man i am sooo jealous of you right now.
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Tottelina · Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2003 5:16 am

Winter scenes r SO hard to get right!!
You've done a wonderful job!
//Totte
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ceenda · member Member # Joined: 27 Jun 2000 Posts: 2030

Ditto Ditto. Wink

Really nice work Matt. Very Happy

Matt Ryan · Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2003 12:42 pm

thank you for the kind comments Smile

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Ian Jones · Posted: Sun Jun 29, 2003 3:18 am

Very nice... some great drawing and painting all round. One thing I noticed was that a lot of your landscapes have an enclosing composition. You seem to have a tendency to push objects up each side and then leave the center with some space. Just look at all the snow scenes, almost every single one has this effect. It's not a bad thing at all... but just distracted me when I got down to the first green painting. Then I noticed the second one had two hills either side. It was becoming a bit repetitive. I'm not sure if that was intentional but I'm just highlighting it incase you missed it.

The composition style is very strong as is... but it seems a bit like a 'crutch' after a while. Try breaking out and try some new composition ideas.

Otherwise, everything is really nice! Hope that helps.

Matt Ryan · Posted: Sun Jun 29, 2003 11:46 pm

Ian, you are very correct. my friend also pointed this out to me. I was wondering, are there any classical compositions that are used very often. i just want to see what are some of the tried and trued methods, becuase after rehearing this my stuff is starting to look kinda bland Sad

. im working on another piece right now, and it seems like its following the same pattern. im not doing this on purpose, but im having a hard time not doing it. its a definate crutch.

what do ya think.
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Smurf · Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2003 1:49 am

Horray for canabalism! Hehehehehehe I love the last one
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Matt Ryan · Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2003 3:25 pm

ok... working on it some more. tell me which one works better compositionally please, thanks.

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Ian Jones · Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2003 5:37 am

hey there, sorry I'm so late to reply.. I couldn't find the thread again (forgot name).

Nothing to be embarrased about Matt, everyone has their crutches and if we didn't have some sort of consistency how would we recognise your work as 'yours'. Idiosyncrasies can also be strengths.

About the 3 pics... I'm not really sure which one I would pick. If I were to try and narrow it down I would say that in the third pic the bottom corner shape isn't as good as the cauldron in the second pic. I think that a round shape is softer and the shading has less distracting contrast than the bold 'attention seeking' diagonal line. The interest factor is what probably sways my decision though. The story of the image has some more depth with that cauldron than without it.

The first pic has some very intruiging details and certainly grabbed some attention. It sits pretty nicely but the large black expanse to the left is a problem factor. I really don't know... you got me here. I can't justify any particular one with any certainty.

That probably didn't help... lol