[Speve-o-matic]

Haven't posted in a while. . .

I wanted to do a digital still life, so I took this wooden sculpture of a buddah that I had lying around and sat him next to my monitor and began to draw . . . many many hours later . . .



It's almost done. Just the little details left.

- Steve

[Pat]

That attention to detail is impressive! The piece comes in a little dark on my computer so it makes we wonder about your gamma setting. I can't make out any of the details on the ground-plane, but when I adjust it in PS I can see there's some work there.

-Pat

[Speve-o-matic]

Thanks for the comments Pat.

Yeah, I was also thinking it was looking a bit dark (I've only been painting it in the evenings, to keep the lighting consistent), but it's such a strange matte black desk that I work on, so I was only trying to get the most subtle hint of reflections and shadows across, perhaps it's a little too subtle. I'll mess around with that aspect. If I do boost the brightness down there, I'll definately have to tighten up the detail on the desk.

- Steve

[Breakerboy2]

Wow. I'm really impressed.

You captured the subtle reflective qualities of all those different surfaces. The way the table top just sucks in the light.... The flatness of the stucco(?) wall... I really love your treatment of the wood. The little edgy highlights here and there are so accurate.

I personally wouldn't do much else with it. That big grey shape on the right feels really flat compared to everything else, but that's it. Really nice!

[Speve-o-matic]

Thanks alot for the comments Michael!
(I love the style of your work btw.)

Yeah, the grey area on the right still needs to be finished, along with a couple of smaller areas. I'll post the completed version tonight.

- Steve

[Speve-o-matic]

Here is an updated version.



I finished adding details to the shadowed area of the wall to the right, and other parts of the wall, I also tweeked a few areas on the buddah and I added a few more shadows. Almost finished? I think so.

- Steve

[nil900]

Wow, that's really looking good not that far fom a photo. Only the dark line right of the nose and the dark part of the mouth look a very little bit strange to me.
In spite of that awesome work!!!

[Ko]

Goody goody

This is one of my favorite pieces posted here in a long time! The wood is just dead on.

Ko

[EviLToYLeT]

Yum....i love the dust between the crevices!

[VanhoozerArt]

Wow, very very nice. I am impressed.
A very cool subject matter, and I think you handled it really well. I love all of the texture and "grit"

Nice style...

Jeremy

[Speve-o-matic]

Thank you all for your comments, I'm glad that you like this piece.

I wanted to work on it last night, but I went to see Final Fantasy instead . . . so I'll be finishing it off tonight, and I'll post it up here once it's done. Not alot left to do, if anything.

- Steve