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So i haven't done a digital painting in photoshop forever because they're tedious and i usually don't have the attention span. Been 'brushing' up on my painting skills. --no pun intended.

first, a progress shot:


and the painting thus far:


it's been kind of slow at work, so i've had a lot of time to goof around.

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gee, nobody must like me

[maxetormer]

Fist it looks like a nice start, i like the gama (do it makes him look like plastic, the hands need more definition as well) and ur tecnical skill are very good i thinks it lack of expresion and felling.
yup i looks kinda ok but it lacks of a point of interest to me , the overall comp. simetrical in general, and the expresion is not telling all than much.

Something ok in tecnical way that is not telling to much on a concept emotional way will not draw to much atencion.

i don�t mean to be harsh this is looking quite good keep it up u seem to have lots of pontecial
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well yeah! photo referenced... just working on this one to sharpen my painting technique. no emotion intended, but i thought the work in progress forum was for critiques... But i disagree with your theory on attention though it may be true. I think that the posts without these kinds of things should be the ones drawing attention, for they are the ones in need of critique, especially in the work in progress forum. Just a thought. Thanks for the trouble I put you through to make that post.

[Drew]

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first of all, i didn't discount anything he said as being invalid, i respected his full criticism, except for the part about how people weren't critiquing it because they thought the composition was boring. that's the bs right there. anyways, yes, i understand my painting may need some work in the 'life' department, but on a technical aspect though, do you think i went about painting in a good manner? I don't do too many digital paintings and technique is an issue for me.

as for making this more interesting, i could care less. it was just something i did to pass time at work. But in the future i will be sure to make my paintings so interesting you will shit your pants.

[AndyT]

I think you should pick photos where you understand the lighting.
Tutorial 1

The way you add details seems too chaotic. The first step is ok ... IMO.
The next step almost looks like the finished piece.
Because of the complicated lighting it's hard to tell if you did a good job or not.
Tutorial 2
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[maxetormer]

THAT IS THE SPIRIT!!!!
this is how u should work always:
"But in the future i will be sure to make my paintings so interesting you will shit your pants."

A teacher of mine said to me once that the ateccion other people gives to my work is a refleccion of how much ateccion i putted to do it, and present it. Now if u said:
"So i haven't done a digital painting in photoshop forever because they're tedious and i usually don't have the attention span."

how do u spect that people will care enought to see and critique the work u made?, if i give to my teacher sucha explanation as urs he would have said:

"well, first go and preset to me work in wich u really put ur hearth on."

i said that cuase u posted a message saing : "gee, nobody must like me"
and since u asked i tryed to find out why do the persons here did not posted commets: the reason u need to do something interesting to get ateccion, and if u don�t u dont get agry to the persons bw, i had images that i worked a lot on, and still they just don�t appeled to the genral tastes of the people, and well u learn to lieve with it , i use the forums a barometer to see if my pics will make an impression on a posible ilustration buyer. the plain truth here is that tecnical skill will not help unlees u balace it with good expresion and emotion, a good artist need to get to the people =)

That is all keep the good work up, and by all means keep posting and experimeting =)
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maxetormer, i think you need to spend a little time learning how to form complete and coherent sentences. j/k. thanks for the comments, guys

[maxetormer]

yeah i know i always make a lot of typos (i write too fast and too bad some times) juar juar jaur

keep the good work up man
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