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Nimr0d · Posted: Fri Oct 25, 2002 12:23 pm

Done in Painter 6, with special thanks to Mr. Photoshop and Skinny Puppy:

cresent moon im cutting through
paste up warnings fill the sky
smoking embers i remember time and time again
to try
to live i light
to sink within her
i think of light
time to blame to borrow from your past elapsed
collapsing

And some full-res details:
Detail 1
Detail 2
Detail 3

Max · Posted: Fri Oct 25, 2002 1:04 pm

Fantastic!

I truly love the colors.
You work alot with smuge am I right?
I like the style.
Especially the moon is good looking.
No real crits...
Let's see what the others have to say...

Nimr0d · Posted: Fri Oct 25, 2002 1:10 pm

Thank you for the quick reply max. I am a fan of your work too; especially the girl with the sword.

And to answer your question, no, I don't use smudging very much... The blocking in and the girl were done using the palette knife tool and the smeary round, and everything else was loads and loads of impasto of all kinds... Depth smear, Acid Etch, Distorto, Smeary Bristle Spray, Gloopy, Smeary Round, etc. etc. Let's just say If I hadn't done this digitally, it would be about 3 feet thick with paint...

SoMK · Posted: Fri Oct 25, 2002 1:17 pm

I like it overall, the mood, the colours..
.. but if I may, I have issues with her waist/hips (and the filter too but that's another discussion tsk tsk ! LOL) I'd really like to see a line artwork of her body if you made one first *don't dare painting over, you didn't ask for it and I'm not god :p*

Nimr0d · Posted: Fri Oct 25, 2002 1:30 pm

Sorry, no linework before... I really hate coloring linework. I built this up like a traditional painting. And also, I didn't use any filters... All I did in photoshop was adjust hue/saturation and brightness contrast and use the brush tool on low opacity to touch up some errors I saw after I adjusted the colors and to go over the impasto for her clothing to make it not so super bright and shiny... It looked like metal before.

Nimr0d · Posted: Fri Oct 25, 2002 2:02 pm

SoMK -

here's the best I can do:

This is with the hair and clothes layers turned off. Those slashes of purple are the shadows the clothes cast. For some odd reason I did them on the skin layer... silly. Anyway, other people have mentioned the hips too; I think the clothes cover them up in an odd way that makes them look distorted or out of proportion.

SoMK · Posted: Fri Oct 25, 2002 2:14 pm

*The inpasto is the b*** I was talking about, eh :p*
Anyway... yup, this confirms the hips/waist/crotch trouble.. and you're right, the layers of cloth really emphasize the effect.. Lowering her crotch (and the veil) a tad could do the trick imho, it's a lil'teenyweeny change. Actually, this cloth must be very uncomfortable :) and if she was a guy, I'm quite sure it would hurt...
Aren't we nitpicking ? :p That's because we loooove you LOL.

Voidmain · Posted: Mon Oct 28, 2002 7:30 pm

Nice Job. I like your use of impasto. The moon especially turned out well. One of my favorite of your pieces so far.

NiM · Posted: Fri Nov 08, 2002 5:33 am

Ahh, SKinny Puppy...

and a very cool picture...
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Max · Posted: Fri Nov 08, 2002 11:04 am

Nimr0d: Cool!!! Nice to hear I have a fan Very Happy

Ah, and sorry about the smuge-thing.
Great! - so many different tools!