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vancekovacs · Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2003 11:10 am

vancekovacs.com is now up and running, at least in it's first incarnation. Feel free to take a look.

www.vancekovacs.com

Vance

prismacolor3 · Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2003 12:18 pm

Hey, thanks Vance, 'been waitin' for this since I saw your work in the latest Spectrum
Very Happy

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chaplin · Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2003 12:37 pm

wow -- very nice
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J.Der · Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2003 4:29 pm

Many great artists have made their way to my "inspiration" folder, but few have made it to my internet's favorites list. Congratulations on getting on my favorites list.

Shocked

-JD

Germ01 · Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2003 6:15 pm

Did you go to the same school as Justin Sweet? Very Happy

Amazing pics! Clicks adds to favorites.
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Kitamard · Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2003 6:33 pm

I agree with everyone else your site contains alot of amazing work Cool

PS Germ01 i like your little comic strip on your site funny character makes me smile Razz

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hedlamb · Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2003 1:33 am

Great work. Makes me want to go play Icewind Dale, et cetera. Razz

Torstein Nordstrand · Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2003 3:22 am

Been a big admirer of Yourself, Sweet and Manley since Icewind Dale. Thank you for sharing your work with us online Very Happy

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Artie · Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2003 1:14 pm

Nice homepage, Vance. Very inspiring! Smile

Drunken Monkey · Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2003 8:21 pm

Awesome stuff! Really like your illustration section. So much volume and atmosphere.

How do you pronounce your last name? Kovach? Kovaks? Kovas?
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Rinaldo · Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2003 10:22 pm

awesome, I'm a big fan. been very hard to find your stuff online :)
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Malachi Maloney · Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2003 12:27 am

Hey, nice. Love I_10.jpg. Very Happy

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vancekovacs · Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2003 3:52 pm

Thank you very much for all the compliments, truely.

Germ01- Me and Justin have been friend for around 15 years.

dougbot · Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2003 4:20 pm

Wow, that's truly amazing stuff. I'm super inspired to go home and draw now. Too bad I'm at work...drawing Confused

XIA · Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2003 4:22 pm

Yeah.

Atmospheria · Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2003 3:15 am

Man...i'm a big fan of you...Black Isle rulez!!!
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Xyster21 · Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2003 3:21 am

one complaint would be to put them up in bigger sizes so I can use some of them as backgrounds for my desktop lol Smile

GJ.
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gekitsu · Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2003 8:33 am

xyster's point would be pretty much the only thing to critisize.
your work is looking good at that small size, too but the true genius can be seen when you have a larger image.

the fanboys demand a walkthrough/demo/step by step Very Happy

vancekovacs · Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2003 1:48 pm

I updated my 'Illustration' section with close-ups of a few of my pieces. Let me know what you think.

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Torstein Nordstrand · Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2003 2:30 pm

Many thanks, Vance Very Happy

I had no idea you invested so much small detail - most prints and jpgs I've come across have been too small to give your marks any credit at all.

As fansites go, the only thing to wish for now (except for more pictures, of course) would be a step-by-step series of an individual painting in progress, with a brief explanation of the process you typically go through.

I can guarantee that there is an enormous interest out here if you would! It is, after all, no longer necessary to travel to Norway for a peak over Nerdrum's shoulder. Wink

Thanks again for sharing the close-ups!
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sparth · Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2003 4:21 pm

awesome work vancekovacs
very happy to be able to wander around your awesome creations.

sparth
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cg · Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2003 7:52 pm

nice work.. i liked your idea with having a sketchbook as a motif for your web presentation..

really enjoyed seeing your illustrations as well as your 3D art.. and very nicely rendered sketches, too..

anyway.. thanks for sharing and keep up the good work!

-cg
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Xyster21 · Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2003 11:38 pm

JEEEEEEEEzzzz!
what enormous amount of detail! lol Smile

Nice... very nice. Thx for the closeups.

And by popular demand please... some step by steps... atleast one Wink

Keep it up!
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Bobuke · Posted: Sat Sep 06, 2003 1:21 am

Full of admiration I associate with this crowd of people who seems to know you well. Easy to understand - I wouldn�t miss your signature from now on. Wink

Your pictures are all full of your own personal caracter. Every detail formed with the same accuracy as the entirety without ,ever, beeing overelaborated.
Moore of theese clooseups - it�s like journey to look at them!
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Lunatique · Posted: Sat Sep 06, 2003 4:52 am

Excellent stuff. I was just looking for your website too.

gekitsu · Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2003 4:02 am

wow, you cannot imagine how much i learned from looking at those detail shots.
many thanks!

i like how you sometimes only use a few strokes with a chalk tool to suggest everything, from form to surface structure...

oh, and i love seeing that white bird in a closeup. i always loved it because it is so defined in its form, yet so loose and in-the-move. it showed me how to balance simple strokes and silhouettes against some detailed parts. i didn't manage to pull off that balance trick myself, though Very Happy

edit:
just out of curiosity: when you work on an illustration like the druid with the dove, how much of a preliminary sketch do you make?
like, a full sketch and completely overpaint it with opaque brushes or do you work out everything in separate sketches and go directly for the paint job?