[Mon]

I think it done now. It's my first, so comments and suggestions are quite welcome.

CG Painting

there's no link to it from my site yet, I'll have to think of something there.. never thought I'd be making these!

Hope you'll like it!
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[zhuzhu]

very useful~~~ thanks man~~~
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[The Real Mark]

Yeah thats a good one

Control ESS!!

[tayete]

At last!!!
After the wonderful tutorials by Ron Lemen and Prometheus ANJ yours was the one I was missing.

All hail the Great Mon!!!
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[drunken_muse]

Good piece & good tutorial. I really like how you kept this one fairly simple, and also the educational flow in the text of the different stages.

I dunno how much of this you already know, but I'll go ahead and write it anyway; Keeping steps simple (even the advance stuff) is something crucial for tutorials, as the more bs text per action = the more focus per action is lost to the student. It's better to make many simple ones explaining important keypoints clean and clear, than one big mess trying to recreate the world/entire concept of art.

Anyhowz, great work, now make us more :>

[Mon]

Thanks guys!

I added a link to the tutorial so it's now accessible from mattiassnygg.com

drunken_muse> thanks! that's the kind of input i'm looking for. good point, i didn't think of it like that really. Do you think it's a bit rushed in places? There are more steps to it, (10 images in total) but since not a whole lot happens between most of them I tried to condense it a bit.

it's damn hard to put words to what's going on in your head as you work.. I didn't want it to be too simple either, stuff like light and shadow isn't even mentioned. Maybe that's a bad thing...?

Mark> ESS? you've lost me there...
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[drunken_muse]

No, I think you've done a good job balancing amount of text/images. You pretty much keep each main step to an image + it's explanation in text, which is good, because that way the text wont get confusing and the progress is easy to spot even for a beginner. Many tuts lack this, consisting of mostly text and/or hard-to-follow images, which leaves alot of people pretty lost.

I also like that you bring up that you have a reason for choosing red, but don't bring it up in this tut (I figure you did it with shallow bloodvessels/veins and/or stretched/thin skin in mind?). Things like that would work better in something like "Rendering organisms" (example) or similar. (Keeping to the main subject without branching out is a really good thing, as juggling subjects can get really confusing for the people trying to learn them. It's a little like teaching someone who never seen a tree to draw one by making the branches while explaining the concept of the trunk.)

I also like what you bring up with the rythm comment, even though it might seem very basic I think many people might get a real "aha" out of it.

Oh, and great work on warriors2, now it's more worth travelling around than ever before. heh. :)

[scallywag]

Good tutorial, thanks. But I'm getting a red X on the figure for step 4, the others show up fine.

[The Real Mark]

[Capt. Fred]

very cool!
the informal approach to the writing is as valuable a lesson for a newbie as any lesson within it.

Nice tut, my sorta thing.
hehehe, I often play with the contrast when nearing completion.. but I usally change it back. Some how the original colours can seem truer to the mood, to the mood of the painting. 'Tho sometimes the colour palette/contrast situation is just the result of laziness in picking colours straight off the image instead of choosing/'mixing' each time. That's just me rather than any general lesson� so who cares.

Thanks Mon. That's well appreciated. Must keep drilling that 'whole image and not disproportionately focuessed on a stupid part' thing. I'm stupid and crap at that and find my self simply starting again as I start doing one part too early on, without thinking. Not seeing the woods for sake of the trees, exactly, that's my current flaw-to-keep-in-mind. Thank you

[Schlo mo]

Hey, Im a long time lurker to sijun (member of CA) and your tut inspired me to join up and also try out messing around with the original sketch. I followed your guidance from memory, after reading the tut a few hours before, and this is the outcome. (hope its ok to host/post this)

Thanks!

[XIA]

I WUV U, MON. Freaking awesome

[Warhead82]

hey this tutorial looks really good start making more, as i need them and everyone else! Well im gonna go start on this one! Thx Mon. I will get back to you to tell you if it helped me after im done.
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[Mon]

Thanks guys! I made some changes to it based on all the wonderful feedback I'm getting.

drunken_muse> thanks yeah i've got some more stuff to do on warriors2, hope to send a new bunch this week!

scallywag> hm.. is the picture still not showing? might have been a temporary thing.

Capt. Fred> I'm really glad you like it!

Schlo mo> hey that's wonderful, go nuts with it

XIA> hahah thanks

Warhead82> cool!
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