Amazing!!! as always! :D

woot, first ^.^

(O_O) holy HELL, that's GORGEOUS!!!

Niiiiice work.

Holy crap! :O This is a new level of artistic talent from you~

Nice choice using black and white! Really gives it a classical feel!
Furrywriter.

Looks like something right out of a Dashell Hammett story... :)

d.m.f.

Run! Shes in heels! She wont be able to keep up!

Hol-ee sh--- That's an amazing picture.

Holy ****! Is what I first thought when seeing this. It is always a pleasure to see you inspire wondrous emotions within my heart with your highly detailed works.

I could tell at first glance you put a hell of a lot of effort into this. The time you spend on some of your artwork is time I spend whittling away at a game.

But I feel inspired to put more work into my own artistic endeavors, I am supposedly a writer, and actually dig in deep and work my ass off.


Truly you are an inspiration, truly.

Beautiful composition, I love Film Noir :) Nice work on the detail of the background.

Wow... One of the first non-furry works of art I've seen in a long while that's made me sit here for a second and just admire it.

I love your art, Kacey, whether it fits with the theme of this site or not. Keep making it, please!

Damn girl, that was time well spent.

The faces seem to capture that 50s art-period feel.

Keep this one safe.

I'm in love.

Fantastic work, love all the details :3

Very nice. You definitely got the noir feel down pat.

This is why you shouldn't cheat on your wife = P

This is unexpected and yet most interesting and creative. I love the whole film noir touch. Well done.

Absolutely amazing; very innovative. I'd expect more contrast for film noir, but t'is a gorgeous piece nevertheless.

doood my gamertag on xbox live is "femmefatale" after that show XD

Even though I write for fun, this piece has me at a loss for words. It's... simply amazing! This is the type of thing I would expect to see in a museum, or something similar. It's a great piece, it made me just stop and it held my attention for a good 2 minutes while I sat there and drank in all the detail. It's very lifelike, and all of the detail is just... awe-inspiring. You did an excellent, EXCELLENT job on this. +add to favorite, a hundred times over.

This is absolutely wonderful in it's detail, shading, and...everything lol. Wonderful piece, worth every minute of time you put into it. Keep up the great work!

MY GOD this is amazing!

ANd here I thought you made teh furries look nice...
You made this painting look absolutely amazing. The details are so...good, that I don't know what to say really, to give anything more constructive than...
DO IT AGAIN!!!

Holy, shit. x___x It's not often you can find someone who can pull off phenominal furries and also spin out such great-lookin' people.

You are a lady of amazing, amazing talent.

Also +fav

Did you use any references or anything for the faces? I had to just sit and stare for a minute at each of them - the mistress in particular - their expressions are so... damn, I can't think of the right word, but "perfect" certainly applies. Anyway, instant favorite.

Yes - I used photo references for help with the faces.. both for the style of hair/makeup, and also for help with the expressions. Cartoony faces would have been easy enough to do from my imagination, but with the realism, photo reference helps a LOT. =)

Is that Van Heflin, scowling in the background?



Mark

WOW!!! way ta go!!

I'm utterly speechless... this is... well.. WOW

/jealously!!

*closes drooling mouth* uh..wow, this is absolutly stunning. the amount of detail in this is breathtaking!

Wow. This is talent, and my new desktop. Freaking amazing!

I think I fucking ORGASMED.

I love it when furry artists show skill in the broader fields of art as well as in the portrayal of furry characters. Now that's what I'm talking about.

You Nailed it Hon, congradulations. please never fear posting some of your "non Furry" stuff here. as you can see, it is most welcome.for art, done well, is always welcome, and you my dear, do this verry well.
--Rick

Very beautiful! Absolutly gorgouse!

Wow. Just...wow. It's like a detective film come to artistic life.

Seriously, one of the best works of art I have seen here in a long time.

Wow wow wow WOW!

Holy shit! O,O

This is amazing work! And I can totally appreciate so much time being put into a piece. I put nearly as much time into pieces that don't turn out nearly as awesome. Ok, maybe not 150 hours worth, but it sure feels like it sometimes. ^^

Just incredible.

very well done - reminds me of an old Humphry Bogart movie... how well I remember watching many of these...

V.

GASP! The detail you've put into that picture must have melted your brain! Fantastic work!

Loverly, very nice. :)

Oh... wow... O.O That's friggin amazing. The detail, the contrast, the expressions... the DETAIL. I can't help but echo what everyone else has said so far, and more. This is a piece that really grabs your attention and you just HAVE to look at every single thing in this. It feels fairly real. And definitely captured the noir feeling very well. =3 Jaw-droppingly gorgeous.

Goodness me. It may not be furry, but art like this has to be recognised no matter what the subject matter! Personally though, I've always loved film noir, and I think you captured the atmosphere of the period perfectly!

Like it? No, I wouldn't say Like it. I defiantly LOVE this piece.

Lovely work :)

Wow, excellent work!

That's no aitbrush, that's a screencap...

Masterfully done.

very gangster of ya x3

Now that's realism!

very interesting piece.

Very detailed!

Wow!... I can almost hear the film noir music :)

Wow, very classic look. Nice job!

This is really well done. There's SO much story within this single image ... I particularly like how there are a lot of cigarettes in the ashtray; shows that the femme fatale has been waiting in the shadows for a long time. Brilliant work. Kudos!

incredible!

An absolutely amazing job.

Wow, now this is amazing. The composition, how clearly the story seems to be told-- it all comes together along with the obvious mood (you *definitely* got the film Noir look down) to form a coherent piece that I just keep looking at!

HOLY SHIT! When I first saw it I thought it was a screencapture. Professional artist's should bow at your feet beg for art tips from you.

holy torpedoes

...She looks just like a friend of mine irl. It's scary.

I love the detail shading and the mood. I know I'd never have the patience to produce a 150 hour piece of work like this - congratulations. :)

i think its admirable when furry artists dont only limit themselves to animals. I think its a good thing to be a well rounded artist. Especially if you`re doing it for a living , it can only mean more work.

great piece. You reall have the handle of paints =) The lighting is well done, too.

Amazing work. Who cares it it's not furry, when its this good!

Wow, Kacey, this is amazing. <3

Gorgeous and realistically detailed dont even begin to describe this masterwork!

Amazing work Kacey!!

First off, like everyone else has said, out-fucking-standing work (to stea^H^H^H^Hborrow from GSgt Hartmann in "Full Metal Jacket"). The little things, like the ash tray, half-empty bottle of booze, and the kiss-sealed love note (presumably from the mistress just add to the overall feel of the work. All in all, a 150 hours well spent.

As for "not furry", you don't need to apologize for that, IMO. While there are a few twits who scream about "eww, hy00man!", a lot more people aren't so locked onto "furry" that anything that isn't automagically inspires feelings akin go revulsion. And, besides, it would only take a cursory glance at your gallery here to put a figurative bullet in the equally figurative head of the notion that you're not a furry artist.

This is your best work to date..... I'm completely blown away.

very nice piece

Amazing work!

Very good image, very good staging! 'Noir' film lighting, plus showing the couple reflected in the mirror! And the gun is not the first thing seen, but one's eye is eventually led to see it.

I like this very much. I always love the LOOk of noir films... specially that hair style, o so beautiful... but yes, I love it, it is faved. My only 'criteque' is that, and this may have been on purpose, you can definatly see the, like, blotches? strokes? like, if you look at the legs they arn't smoothe in shadow... you know? lol, I don't think I'm making sence so I'll drop it there and just say very nice job and I can't wait to see more of your work, wether it be this or chakats :p

hope we like it? goddamn, this is a great piece! The time you spent on it shows, everythiing is so crisp and lovely. I love how everything in the picture is like a well rendered still life. I'm enjoying looking at each object in the room, they each really pop! Fantastic job. =)

Great style there! Has a kind of 30's-40's noirish look to it :)

very, very cool!

You seriously just made my day by posting this. this is incredible. I'm a huge noir fan :) you really captured it!


Brilliant :)

WOW-sers!
Don't know what to say other then WOW!
And a fav.

amazing work, makes me speechless... WOOW

This is awesome! I wish I could say more.

Oh goddddd this is incredible

that rugggggg aaaaaaa

wow... just wow... and they say that all the Non-porn pics get no comments and favs on this site XD well most don't but any artist worth his salt is going to appreciate how well done this was, the shading is excellent, and its very realistic... i likes a lot ^__^ keep it up.

o.0 A... Amazing.........

I've been wondering what you've been working on, it's been so long since you posted anything.

It was more than worth the wait.

This is an astounding piece of work. There are a couple of minor errors in the gun, but that just shows that you have little knowledge of those. Easily corrected with some research.

It's definitely fav'ed, and will be a desktop wallpaper for me, along with 'Dragon Dance'. So you have created both of my desktops. Just wish I could afford one of your originals. . .

Nicolai

Shakira Shakira

I absolutely LOVE the details you have in here, the letter sealed with a kiss torn open, the smoldering ash tray, the whole set is fantastic! I love film noir.

Great work indeed!

The attention to detail in this is just stunning. I love it, and the fact that you've used only two colors. :3 Just beautiful.

Fantastic picture, just stunning. Awesome avatar btw

"She was the GIRL who was DEATH..."

Words cannot described how much I artgasm'd.

Cripes Almighty! that is a fantastic piece! Very nice, and spot on for the timeframe "It's the 40's dammit, Men wear hats!'
As usual, you are the best of the best....!

thats so awesome! i love old films :D these three don't look like anyone in particular, were you thinking of any actors/actresses at the time of doing this?

its amazing you did that with real media! I love the lighting, with the broken sunlight shining onto the wall from the blinds. very pretty!

I can't agree more with everyone above. Nor can I find any words to add - this is an amazing piece. :) Your stuff gets better all the time!

I can't say anything that hasn't been said already, but that is just a - mazing! Do more like this!

Excellent!

That is absolutely amazing in every way! WOW!! You are an art goddess!!!

What can I say that hasn't already been said, Kacey? I continue to be amazed at your talent. Excellent use of lighting and shadow here. I also really like the imagery presented by the opened 'love' letter on the desk next to an already-poured glass of booze.

Lovely work. It has a really period noir feel to it.

Oh good god. this is fantastic. I've been playing with tone myself recently, and it's both rewarding and difficult to get it to do what you want.

I really like this large scale stuff you've been taking a liking to. You can really cram so much wonderful stuff into these pieces.

Thanks again for sharing. You do lovely work.

I love how you created a realistic depth with the husband and wife in the mirror, instead of them being inside the room. I have a special fondness for tonal and black & white work. Noir is just a perfect fit for that sort of medium.

O.o o.O Damnnnnnnnnn. I'm speechless because this is a damn good picture! Can it get any more realistic?

love the way you handled the shadows from the blinds on the wall. Nice touch. Also the fashion and decor has the right flavor to it. Fav!

Dun Dun Duuuunnnnnnnnn....
lol great job ^.^

Very nice!!

The Stuff that Dreams are made of...

Oooh, I like your humans

If I could offer you any advice at all, it would be to study perspective and composition.

So much about this picture is very good, but I find myself distracted by lines of perspective that never meet at vanishing points, and by certain angles that suggest a room that is not in the form of a square. Expressionistic images can benefit from these distortions, because they create a sense of wrongness; but in a picture like this one, with an emphasis on realism, these distortions suggest a lack of craftsmanship -- an unfortunate lapse in an image otherwise well done.

Another problem is that these distortions can break up the visual rhythms and flow of a picture, and make the composition seem less purposeful than it could be. Most noir films excelled in their pictorial power, and a great deal of this power was brought about by carefully-composed visual rhythms: angles that echoed each other, lines that intersected or ran smoothly parallel, balanced regions of light and dark. Watch any noir film by Jacques Tourneur, Robert Siodmak, Fritz Lang, or Robert Aldrich, and you'll see exactly what I mean. Even when they distorted space or forced the image into unbalanced relationships, they did it beautifully, and they made it clearly intentional.

If I seem overly-critical, I apologize; but you are too good to make fundamental mistakes like these. With your current level of skill, mastering perspective should come easily to you... and mastering perspective will make a huge difference in your work.


Mark

Thank you for your advice and critique.

I thought I had made a lot of progress in the realm of perspective, but clearly I am still making fundamental errors. I will be focusing on improving that in my future work by studying techniques rather than 'eyeballing' my perspective, which seemed to be working, but I wasn't seeing the errors, and when I asked for critiques no one pointed them out to me...

The problem is that I'm not seeing the errors, and I need to be able to train myself to.

(I can see them after a long time has passed - or after they are pointed out to me - but through the course of working on a piece, over a couple of weeks even, I become used to what it looks like, and it feels 'right' to me. I hope that makes sense.)

Thank you very much for your honest critique - I do appreciate it =).

Have you considered the forums at Conceptart.org? You can get critique there from teachers and other artists with technical experience. Instead of ... furries.

I did a piece last year where I had a problem that I solved by making the horizon line vertical. http://www.peledragon.com/offsite/vhl.jpg I had to tape a sheet of paper to the page to mark my vanishing point.

Nope, I hadn't - I think I heard about that site a long time ago, but completely forgot about it. I've bookmarked it now and next time I have a complex drawing, I will be sure to ask for critiques before I present the sketch to the commissioner =).

One of the most thorough, clear, and enjoyable books I've seen on the topic is Perspective for Artists, by Rex Vicat Cole (Dover Publications); the book is a classic, and I recommend it with passion.

I also commend you for your attitude: combined with your skill, it will take you very far as an artist. You've come a long way, already, and I look forward to seeing where you'll go next.



Mark

Thank you =D I will be sure to look up the book on Amazon or a similar site - I also got another recommendation for a perspective book... which looked potentially very helpful as well.

And thanks very much =). I always strive for improvement where I can.

I can see that.

The book by Cole was published in 1921, and is a no-nonsense, no frills, "this is how we do it" guide to perspective, filled with diagrams and very clear explanations. It offers more useful information per page than any other book on the topic I've seen, and it covers everything from steeples and stairways to shadows and reflections. Great stuff!


Mark

Hey Kacey, I thought you might want to know that someone posted this pic at Lulz and while some are being jerks as that bunch often is, I thought you might like to see what some have to say about vanishing points and perspective, particularly posts 224429 and 224462, comments which were also posted with your pic with lines added to it to show what they're talking about

http://lulz.net/furi/res/224323.html

Though I normally avoid Lulz - because the comments there are typically vicious and without helpful critique, I decided to look - and you are correct - some of those posts are helpful.

Perspective is one of those things that I have had problems with in the past, and continue to have problems with, though I've made progress over the years in my attempts.

And it is always nice to receive critique that I can use to improve my work down the road...

Simply gorgeous! The detail is amazing. I love all those old crime/detective stories. The blond reminds me a lot of Veronica Lake. :)

Wow! We're studying Film Noir right now; in fact we're reading/watching the Maltese Falcon.

This is too amazing for words... it's always an incredible honor to view your work Kacey! =D

That is amazing! I know you've gotten hundreds of broad compliments such as this one, but it still stands. Astounding!

Wow. Moody and dark and deliciously noir..... I'd love to see you do more art in this genre.

Brilliant. Some aspects of it look almost photorealistic. The chair, blinds, light and plant (But not so much the pot. That might just be me though... ) look like they could be real, and the bits that don't are still amazingly done. The detail's shocking.

Mnah, you'll never get away with dis, shee?

forget the characters, the background and things in the picture. OMG, the detail. The bottle and glass alone make me jealous.

Furry or not, this is a piece that really shows off your talent. There is so much story captured in this scene, and so much given away but what you see. Beyond how wonderfully the characters are illustrated, the scenery just looks amazing.

The characters, crazy ol'gun lady has the perfect look of that happy smile with a bit of that "I've got you right where I want you" crazy look. The mans "How dare you" angry look as he comforts his wifes confused and shocked fear. The clothing of the 40's and 50's were so classy. Everyone dressed so proper and stylish, so few do that today (at least not without making a point of it or looking down on others).

For me now, the scenery is what really impresses me for some reason. From the working of the mirror, the not so perfectly straightened carpet with a consistent pattern, the old style clock, and the glass affect for the whiskey bottle and glass sitting on the table (I think the image through the glass should be a bit undistorted, but no biggie).

This piece just has so much to it, so much to look at and take in. It is a truly remarkable testament of your work, and belongs here on FA. Thank you for sharing it with us.

Also, what kind of gun is that? At first glance I want to say a small S&W .38 cal., but I could be wrong on both accords.

Too amazing!

amazing FAV!!!

Wow, awesome work <3

I love film noir, and you captured it beautifully with this.

You have such an eye for detail, I love that it's in black and white.. and it's amazing.. really

you draw humans well

This is unbelievably amazing! :3

My Goodness! Almost a photograph.

Achievment Unlocked: Best picture eva'.

This is fucking cool

Great pic! I love it! Your eye for details is amazing! I am so drawn into it!

Consider me utterly impressed! Beautiful work. You capture the style really well ^^

Not furry? Who cares when this is what 'not furry' is! This is a great piece of art.

Typical. Never trust a dame, they'll always go for the highest paycheque, see? *adjusts fedora*

I'm a big fan of Noire films, the genre and the sub-consequential genre of melodrama, and this is just great, a decent staple of old time film making see.

Grand