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Socar MYLES
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Finally, I finished all those $50 pet portraits from the sale I had in May. This is the last one, and the third in a series of whippets I did for one customer. These are the first two, for those who didn't see them:
http://www.gorblimey.com/art/cutter.jpg
http://www.gorblimey.com/art/princess.jpg
Now, this is the last one:
I had lots of trouble with this picture...not because it was a hard subject, but because of bad health. I kept having to stop and start with it, and I kept messing up and changing my mind...I think maybe the composition is a bit more forced than usual as a result. It took about three weeks from sketch to finish, which is about two and a half weeks longer than something like this would normally take me. BUT, I am fairly pleased with it anyway...I think it goes with the other two quite nicely.
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| Posted: Thu Dec 05, 2002 9:53 am |
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Wow! Great pieces, I really love your color palette, the colors are always so warm and rich! Do you take your own reference shots for the animals? Or do you use stock footage? Great work as always!
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| Posted: Thu Dec 05, 2002 9:59 am |
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I love the flowers lower right. Hope your clients know what a deal they're getting.
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Matthew
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| Posted: Thu Dec 05, 2002 10:20 am |
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Hello
As always with your pictures there is totally magic in the colors.
I was noticing one thing about the dogs right back leg, it is kind of twisted in a funky way, or maybe it�s just a branch from the broken tree?
have a nice day
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Tomasis
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| Posted: Thu Dec 05, 2002 10:34 am |
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nice to see your great images!
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Socar MYLES
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Tomasis - Thank you very much! Glad you like them.
Matthew - Thanks! I tried some darker and very saturated colours this time...kind of like the effect, myself. Not sure about the leg thing--they look fine to me, but I could be confused from looking so long at it.  It IS a bit tough to distinguish the legs from the background...I'll have to watch that next time.
balistic - Thank you! Most of the people who got the $50 deal were aware of my usual prices...that's probably why I had to do so many! Oops!
Germ01 - Thank you--glad you like my colours! To answer your question, the owners of the animals sent me photographs of their animals, then I drew them in more interesting poses so they'd fit in the backgrounds I painted for them.
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| Posted: Thu Dec 05, 2002 11:02 pm |
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your art is truely beautiful. It's rendered very nicely, I always like the feelings the pictures give off. Now as for my thank you, I'd prefer a "Cool glad you like em  "
hehe
sorry for being an ass, I had to. 
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| Posted: Sat Dec 07, 2002 3:02 am |
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UkiTakuMuki
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| Posted: Sat Dec 07, 2002 5:01 am |
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Mr. MYLES!!!!! your colours are the warmest, coldest, richest and most vibrant here, in a magical, wonderfully alluring way. I got a new wallpaper now :p
original(unedited) version: Fuck shit man your stuff fawkin rawks meh. I'll be fooked if i think otherwise!
sorry, had to edit :>
you are one of my greatest inspirations here on the forums! |
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Socar MYLES
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| Posted: Sun Dec 08, 2002 3:33 am |
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UkiTakuMuki - That would be MISS Myles! Hehehe...glad you like the pictures, though. Experimenting with colours is fun....
Max Kulich - Bibbidy bobbidy boo! Abracadabra! Shaaaaaazzzzzzaaaammmm! 
aColdOldKodiak - As requested.... Cool glad you like em (And quit making fun of my thank-you's! LOL!)
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UkiTakuMuki
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| Posted: Sun Dec 08, 2002 5:41 am |
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!!!!!!!!!! -gulp-
..sorry.. -_-''
really sorry...
did i mention your art is awesome? >:p |
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Matthew
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| Posted: Sun Dec 08, 2002 5:45 am |
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hmmm  I must have hit my head really hard cause I don�t get acoldoldkodiak�s joke....hmmm
Well there�s a brush I can use...hmmnm
take it easy
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Torstein Nordstrand
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| Posted: Sun Dec 08, 2002 9:25 pm |
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Fantastic, fairylike, borderline elusive, those colours gives my tummy a fuzzy feeling
Keep up that touch of wonder, Socar
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Malachi Maloney
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| Posted: Tue Dec 10, 2002 4:20 am |
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As usual, I'm in love with your color pallet.
~M~
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