Wow, I first thought it was a photo. Very nice! :)

Thanks! :3

I dunno... Only time that he was walking in a field, of some type was when he was visiting the Hobbit village.

Or that chick with the dogs and the peanut butter. Po-ta-toes? Cut em up, mash em up, put em in a stew?

I think it could be a scene from the extended edition, or just some promo shot or some such.


...whut? U:

Damn! I thought that was a photograph! Excellent!

Ooooh... Another piece of art :)

Wow that's pretty awesome, Specially since I'm pretty sure those are the mountains I see outside my window everyday, Or atleast near my area anyway. =3

damn damn DAMN that is good

Thanks! Actually, I'm still struggling with Painter IX a bit. I mean, I'm quite satisfied with this - But then, there's those crazy concept artists/ speed painters who could pull of this stuff in half the time, and quite possibly with better results. D:

Aside from the theoretical knowledge, it mainly comes down to being able to use your media/ software of choice efficiently - And with this version of Painter I'm still at the beginning of my learning experience, more or less.

Gandalf = LOVE

Yesh.

Wow, I thought this was a screenshot at first. That's so awesome. ^^

One does not simply tank-cat into Moordoor.

Awesome job. It does look very photorealistic at first. I would indeed lick this sir.

Whaaaaaa! I want Painter!!!! But it's so *$@#! expensive!

But aside from that, this is a really beautiful picture, dasAoD. You are to be congratulated. It brings back my fondness for LOTR all over again. And I'm hoping that this picture represents the beginning of a couple more LOTR pictures from you. *hint hint nudge nudge*

Painter IX isn't actually that expensive any more. But I do see your point - The prices for professional GFX software, in general, can be quite obscene. :(

Anyhow, most of the techniques I used here are pretty basic, so you should be able to reproduce them in most any halfway decent graphics tool. I'm still fairly new to this version of Painter, after all, and haven't even tried the majority of the more complex features and tools yet.

And I hear what you're saying - The rediscovery of my own fondness of the LotR saga is what spawned this in first place. And I will do more paintings based on it, eventually. I just can't do anything more elaborate at this time, sadly enough, because there are just so many other things I should complete first. XD

GANDALF THE GREY, a beautiful picture :>

extremely nice picture but i really would suggest you read the books they are much much better than the movies ;) i kinda was disappointed from the movies well i think its normal when the book was so awsome

So I did, but I enjoyed the movies anyway, even if they weren't perfect. They weren't really "bad" at all - I figure it's just a matter of people having certain expectations of how the characters or settings should look, and then they're disappointed if things aren't exactly like they imagined them when they read the books.