[Flexible Elf]

Ok it's a little violent and yes.. it's another knight quick-painting, but it gives me an excuse to toy around with nature backdrops.
http://xploitzero.tripod.com/images/storm1.JPG

This one was mostly an exercise using custom brushes.. as you can tell they made most of the shrubs and trees. They made me feel like Bob Ross.. hehe

-Flexible Elf

[Jenn]

I -really- Like this one. Can you give me hints on how you do this style and what you use? -curious-

Looks awsome.. The blood looks cool

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DarkChyld

[Visigoth]

Now that, my friend is really fucking cool. I can feel the rage of the knight in the background...

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[n8]

wooo....luv the perspective..!!...hell...i luve the pic...bludy good fun

[Farwalker]

Nice piece of work Elf.

The follow through motion of the attacking knight is great.

I really like seeing your work.
keep em coming.

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[Flexible Elf]

All I do is lay down my flats.. the solid tones of the picture (usually just the sky and the ground). Then I build up with more solid shapes of the features on the landscape (tree branches, rocks, hills, clouds) using lighter and darker tones than I laid down. It's basically like doing a charcoal painting on brown paper.. I can use black charcoal for shadows, and white chalk for highlights.. only with any colors you want.

for the people I do the same thing. I pic a midtone to build off of (brown, gray) and make a silhouette (on a seperate layer in case I mess up I can just erase) and build off of it the same way.

I try to avoid using solid blacks or any thin lines as outlines. Being primarily a line-based illustrator all my life, I'm trying to branch out and try something new Ideas flow A LOT easier this way.

Hope that helps a bit. Basically I just followed the advice of people on the board and the Master himself, Spooge.

-Flexible

[Flexible Elf]

Thank you guys!

I love to paint! **tears in eyes**

hehe

-Flexible Elf

[Jenn]

I am guessing that you use Painter?

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DarkChyld

[Anthony]

Still looks like a line drawing colored in to me, at least at first glance. Looks good, don't get me wrong, but not quite a painting yet.

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Carpe Carpem

[Flexible Elf]

Nopers, all photoshop.

it be the best IMO

-Flexible Elf

[Flexible Elf]

Old habits die hard =[

-Flexible Elf

[Jenn]

Man you must be a photoshop pimp. Silly thing doesnt work that well for me :|

-wanders off to stare at her PS-

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DarkChyld

[surferboi]

definitely my favorite knight picture by far.. cool picture flexible elf

[g:tech]

Mr Elf:

Hey, I really like your stuff! Very dynamic and visually interesting. I've only seen 2 of your pix, one was a redraw of some other person's pic (with a monster in the sky) and now this one. I like them both a lot.

Do you have a site with more of your stuff posted? There isn't one posted in your profile... it would be a shame if you didn't have one!

Keep up the sweet work. And btw, I love line art, so don't give it up completely just yet


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[dr . bang]

My favorite too ofcourse!!!!!!!

[mantis]

Superb. The perspective and the entire scene is reminds me of Anime. The rain was a beatiful touch. This picture would be perfect if you added some color to the background clouds.

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[X-pLaGue]

Man!! i LuRvE the blood droplets!!!

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[Chapel]

I love these new pics Flex! I think your line drawings have more detail though. In your paintings you are doing great as far as catching the atmosphere. Now you should try to bring in that detail. Don't get me wrong your paintings look awesome (I can't do it yet), but they look unfinished.

[Rinaldo]

Wonderful sense of motion. I can almost feel the *Thunk* as that guy hits the ground
It reminds me of the warcraft3 trailer a bit. Very nice.
My one crit is that the shrubs and trees don't give me a sense of real scale. I can look at it and wonder wether the knights are really huge. Maybe if you had bigger leaves up close and smaller ones in the far trees it would give a better sense of depth and scale.

[Axl]

Nice art, I can't say much more.
The blood actually looks bloody, nice subtle rainfall and I like the lightning fork in the background.

[Tinusch]

That is one of the coolest pics I've ever seen. The shading does look kind of unfinished as someone mentioned already, but man, the composition and the poses and everything else looks perfect.

[Superbug]

Wonderful flex elf. While the pic seems pretty flat and no depth (of course its jus a sketch or maybe your going for stylish), I love that blud. It just comes out in wonderful little globules. And once again, thanks for the help on that meteor pic.

[Ian]

I CANT LOAD THE PIC!!!

[Flexible Elf]

hey guys, thanks for the feedback!

The picture is basically mainly an excuse to test out some custom brushes to see if they'd work alright and help me finish a more stoke-intensive project (err um..) faster. It's not a finished painting at all.. it's totally stylized. What I'm going for mainly is speed, strength of form and composition. Detail is secondary. I am basically learning to paint for the first time in my life and I wanna keep practicing so my final works will look a lot nicer

With this one I wanted to try something a little more dynamic than my others. Someone said they hadn't seen 'em, so here they are
[not pimping I swear ]

Knight In Marsh http://xploitzero.tripod.com/images/knighttest.JPG

Barbarians At The Wall http://xploitzero.tripod.com/images/CastleTest.JPG

Super Quick Sketch of Warrior [After Superbug] Which actually gave me the idea of the angle and the lightning for Storm1.JPG http://xploitzero.tripod.com/images/Cloak1.JPG

-Flexible Elf

[Flexible Elf]

Oh and yeah you're right Rinaldo, on second glance the trees really rely totally on the viewer to take-it-for-granted they're normal sized trees.. the knights could actually be giants (They Might Be Giants!) hehe

Leaves or big blades of grass in the foreground would work good.. I'll keep that in mind next go 'round

-Flexible Elf

[Lukias]

Either can I......in fact I can never load your pics. Darn.

[CapnPyro]

Damn, that my friend is a fine drawing. Im mostly a line illustrator also (comic book style) and ive had trouble with my style on the computer coloring, this is a good way of doing things. Really great angle, i love the globby looking blood. Youve inspired me to give my tablet another go

-Capn-

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[Lukias]

Hey can someone put the pic on the tread for those of us who arn't able to view it.....please.

I'm really keen to see this, especially because I can't.

[Flexible Elf]

I'm sorry Lukias... I also have hiccups with tripod at work sometimes.. all I can say is try out Netscape if you're using IE or IE if you're using netscape. I'll put up a website soon.. that'll be easier.

-Flexible Elf

[Flexible Elf]

Hehe.. I know it's not art related but I was bored.. hehehe.. Whipped up a little wav file.

A sound to go with my pic http://xploitzero.tripod.com/Sounds/swordsplash.wav

Like I said.. bored

-Flexible Elf