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chaplin · Posted: Sat Sep 04, 2004 8:47 pm

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MetalSoul · Posted: Sat Sep 04, 2004 9:33 pm

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noxi · Posted: Sat Sep 04, 2004 11:04 pm

Amazing thread! Feels like visiting Sijun for the first time.

Here�s two painted on photo:

And couple on nothing...

This is a work in progress, but at least I�m going to make it as good I possibly can. Wink

eyewoo · Posted: Sun Sep 05, 2004 6:13 am

Broken wine glass on piano keys. I like that tense feeling brought about by the juxtaposition of implied finger tips and fine shards of glass...

This picture was originally created over 12 years ago using the vector based CorelDRAW! graphics program and actually won one of the monthly contests Corel was holding at the time.

Here's the original vector based CorelDRAW! picture

When I first made it in CorelDraw! I didn't know anything about Photoshop. But shortly afterward I was told that bitmap artwork was a better path forward, so I bought Photoshop 3 and started forward. The picture above was originally done in Photoshop 4 and updated last year in Photoshop 6. I should note there is no photographic imagery in the picture... it is all Photoshop painting and function use. I have a tutorial on how I did the wood grain on my website.
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xeNusion · Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2004 7:05 am

hey eyewoo your pic is cool. you must have posted it before coz i still can remember it especially the nice reflections on the glas.

some months old. quite ok for its time. today i wouldnt do it the same way

see · Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2004 7:23 am

you should do it the same way! eyewoo ... crazy.

pauldavidson: Thats .... very steven Garofalo but very unique in the same way. Perfect man ! amazing artwork. No image ... seems i havnt done anything good finished enough

The Real Mark · Posted: Tue Sep 07, 2004 1:13 am

I guess this is my best so far.

from ref.

cheney · Posted: Tue Sep 07, 2004 8:32 am

Eyewoo, I remember you posting that broken glass image here years ago as a small thumbnail in some thread. Since it is a still-life that image has always stuck with me and been great inspiration since I first saw it.
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gLitterbug · Posted: Tue Sep 07, 2004 2:05 pm

My best, actually the only painting ever done I�m proud of. I hesitated to post it, but when I saw other people beating their dead horses I thought what the hell Wink

Spectra · Posted: Sun Sep 12, 2004 12:01 pm

Many impressive works here, most of which i have already seen, but i always like to know the personnal favorites of an artist.

Eyewoo: That is quite an huge improvement from the corelDraw version! ...but of course 12 years ago that must have been some great digital work.

pauldavidson: nice rendering skills! The version on epilogue is much smaller, its cool to see more of the details!

*secretly posting this... my other creations must not feel jealousy Rolling Eyes

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ittybad · Posted: Sun Sep 12, 2004 12:34 pm

Hay Spectra,
When you post, you need to place a link to the image file (and not the html file) inbetween the img tags. Better luck next time.
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Thomas Veil · junior member Member # Joined: 09 Jun 2003 Posts: 34

I love this thread - great idea.
And awesome works from everyone - I couldn't pick a favorite from the posted pictures here, every single one of them has something to it.

This one is my best recepted picture by far - probably the one I worked on the longest time:

details and bigger versions

I like more the simplistic stuff. This is my personal fav:

bigger version

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allpetter · Posted: Mon Sep 13, 2004 5:35 pm

Hard descision! Shocked

Real nice stuff guys!

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Red Dog · Posted: Wed Sep 15, 2004 11:07 am

ceenda · member Member # Joined: 27 Jun 2000 Posts: 2030

Possibly this, but the design makes me cringe.

I hesitate to include this, as it's a study of a an Albert Bierstadt piece.

weaselball2 · member Member # Joined: 15 Jun 2004 Posts: 101

wow...some of this stuff is amazing.
I been lurkin here for a while now, waiting for a Wacom to come along...
Tried drawing with mouse, all I got was tendonitis and some paintings I wasn't at all happy with Smile

Socar MYLES · Posted: Wed Sep 15, 2004 5:08 pm

Digital:

or traditional:

Maybe these aren't the best I've done technically speaking, especially compared to newer stuff I can't post yet because of NDAs, but I like them because they have themes I like. (I like dead stuff--ewwwwww! What a creep!)
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Socar MYLES · Posted: Wed Sep 15, 2004 5:10 pm

Wait, no, I lied. This is my favourite traditional work:

It's a guy with a naked mole rat for a nose. Kiss him!
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KrakenCT · Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2004 6:38 am

Skull. Spyro. Heysoos. P-Rik. Awesome stuff!
Sumaleth, nice light ambience throughout.

It's nice to see a thread like this pop up that shows what artists would consider their best work. I hope it lasts a while.

Well since there are a couple of 3D images in this bunch, I thought another wouldn't hurt, cause it's probably the best 3D model I've done to date.

And also 3 digital paintings that are probably my best...

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amoe · Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2004 2:07 am

this one seems to be pretty popular. it really surprises me that so many ppl like it.
http://arminstocker.yourth.net/paintings/old/150_ruzi.jpg
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Highfive · Posted: Tue Sep 21, 2004 2:34 pm

eyewoo - That... is... amazing! I love the Corel version even more because the creative filter use and the realism in the glass.

amoe - three wonderfully different works for you *stares*

My real personal best can't be posted because it's unreleased copyright material. If anyone who remembers, it's the Dinobot slag I posted two years ago Sad

Entry for a Four Horsemen of the Apocolypse contest:

For the eatpoo tarot cards:

A fun exploration of jungle creature designs:

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eyewoo · Posted: Tue Sep 21, 2004 3:59 pm

Thanks Highfive... but, no creative filter use in either picture. The woodgrain in the
Corel version is made from lots of dupped objects and the grain in the Photoshop version
is made using the selection tool to draw with and then manipulate in quick mask and with
various adjustment tools.

Here's another...

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Highfive · Posted: Wed Sep 22, 2004 10:21 am

I like it. I think I can imagine what kinds of duped shapes you used, but there must've been a lot of planning and testing these shapes involved before you began the work. Was this produced before you ever had a Wacom tablet?
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eyewoo · Posted: Wed Sep 22, 2004 11:18 am

Before a Wacom? Yep... I used a Kurta tablet...

As I recall, Corel had an option to merge two shapes with a given number
of steps. You entered the number of steps and the program created a
series of shapes that morphed from one shape to the other. I used that
function to create the vector wood grain... In fact, as I further recall,
there was an article in Corel magazine about how I did it. However, I
don't think the magazine is still published.

EDIT: I just rooted through an old box of published stuff and found the
issue - Corel Magazine, February 1995.

Here's another CorelDRAW! image. The pic on the left is the original
CorelDRAW! image and the one on the right is same image after passing
it through Photoshop to color correct and add (gasp) the lens flares. I'd
like to make note, as far as I can recall, that is the only time I've ever used the lens flare filter. Shocked

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Capt. Fred · Posted: Thu Oct 07, 2004 1:59 am

I have a long way to go. this is my best imo
from life, an hour I think, about 6 months ago.

Capt.FlushGarden · Posted: Sat Oct 09, 2004 3:52 am

awesome thread, i guess, this is my own fave

digitaldecoy · Posted: Sat Oct 09, 2004 5:56 am

Considering the feeling I had painting it I would say, this is my best work to day:

I especially like how everything is communicated with the least amount of detail. I never was able to capture my imagination in such a way yet.
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xzacto · Posted: Sat Oct 09, 2004 9:53 am

it's not much.. but I try Confused

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