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Jim S · Posted: Mon May 14, 2001 11:09 pm

Hiya!

Here's a quick image of the reaper.
It all started when Niclas L�vblad (aka Slicer) and I were having a conversation a couple of days ago and I told him to draw a reaper. I ended up making one myself instead though... I dunno how his is coming, but I guess that we'll all find it here in the forums when it's done (right, Niclas?

. This took about 40 minutes to paint. Crits and suggestions are very welcome.

/Jim

Thrush · Posted: Mon May 14, 2001 11:12 pm

What fun! I like the way the low hung sun and clouds suggest a malevolent eye. Good color and loose style too. Thanks for posting it.

Slicer · Posted: Mon May 14, 2001 11:16 pm

hey, stop mentioning my name god damn it!

Well Perhaps..probably not though. We'll see

Staff Sarge · Posted: Mon May 14, 2001 11:29 pm

The scythe looks wrong. The pole shouldn't be straight, but curved. For example, take a look at this fella and his grim tool:

Children of Bodom's mascot: http://www.cobhc.com/images/kannet/followthereaper.jpg http://www.cobhc.com/images/kannet/hatebreeder.jpg

Putting aside the scythe, the picture looks quite nice. The colours are OK. The green in the eyes looks... interesting? I'd have picked a colour to them from the bright colours from the sky but that's just me.

Yeah, that's about it. I like the grim reaper-concept very much.

Bishop_Six · Posted: Mon May 14, 2001 11:30 pm

Oooooohh, I like it!

Jim S · Posted: Tue May 15, 2001 5:34 am

Thrush - thank you very much

Slicer - I'm sure we'll find your grim reaper here. If you don't post it i'll make you to do it... hehe.

Staff Sarge - You're totally right about the scythe. But then again, I didn't put much thought (nor time) at all in the picture and I painted without reference, just for the fun of it. Good you mentioned it though, because now that I look at it it looks a little strange. The green in the eyes... hmmm... I dunno. I think I agree with you.

Bishop - Thanx!

btw. if anyone has got a grim reaper-pic just lying around, feel free to post it here. It would be nice to see all you other guys' interpretation of the Death

Thanx for the replies!

/Jim

DarkStalker1 · Posted: Tue May 15, 2001 7:06 pm

web page

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topeira · Posted: Wed May 16, 2001 1:51 am

DarkStalker1, u sick puppy

and jim, nice piece. love the values. how was it done? looks like on traditional medium but i guess not....

metalfan · Posted: Wed May 16, 2001 6:33 am

Nice pic, maybe the topmost cloud look a little flat or something..
Imho the scythe doesn't have to be curved..
sure it looks pretty cool.. but take a look at the cover of Emperors split EP with Enslaved, I think it's also cool:

I've made these pics in based on that cover:

I was in a good mood that day, so I made these as well:

the pics above (and some other stuff) can be found at this page:
http://metalfan.critical-depth.net/groupboard.html

alright, while I'm posting I might as well put up the url to my small page of saved Paintchat pictures:
http://metalfan.critical-depth.net/paintchat/

well, that's it

Cheers

Jim S · Posted: Wed May 16, 2001 1:08 pm

DarkStalker - that's naughty..

topeira - thanx! the pic is 100% photoshop. After I was done with the painting I overlayed a scanned in rough paper with low contrast. It works with almost anything and it can give a nice touch to your pic sometimes (at least it conceals some of the sloppyness... hehe). Once I used a scanned in hard bread.

metalfan - Thankyou! I checked out your collection of paintchat pics, and I must say that some of them looked very impressive.
I really like the first one of the two purple reapers, the one with the least contrast. I think it's the simplicity of the pic that makes it so good. I dunno.. it just captured me.

/Jim