awsomeness.

Impressive sense of scale

thats cool

I will pay for you to record yourself painting for me

wip or not that is awesome

Reminds me of Galifray

Yeesh! If this is a work in progress...
I am severely excited for the finished piece!

Wow. We have museum pieces much worse.

Damn!

an impressive work in progress at that!

I gotta ask what you're using.

I like the fact that you can see another city in the background, makes it look more like the standard cultural style rather than just the design of that particular city. :3

This reminds me of Prince of Persia for some reason. :3 those brushmarks all over the piece. <3

I swear, this thing moves...
No, I'm not high. XD

Either way, this is very impressive by any definition. Nice work.

Snow-veined mountain passes, chill blue skies, onion-domed temples, a mood that reminds me of Nicholas Roerich.

Nice!



Mark

I do have one issue with your composition: the red temple is almost dead centre, which has long been considered the dullest point within a frame. If it were off-centred, and balanced more dynamically with the more distant temple and the lone traveller, I think the picture would gain in visual interest, a sense of scale, and especially in the implication of movement: in the sense of a destination being reached... or yearned for.



Mark

Ah. Yeah I realise the composition is like shit.
I went through so many varations but in the end I just gave up trying to save the focal rhythm and closed the damn thing.

>>Yeah I realise the composition is like shit.

No, not like "shit" -- merely not as effective as it could be. Strictly a matter of technique.

It's very good to be hard on your work; but you don't have to be hard on yourself.

>>I went through so many varations but in the end I just gave up trying to save the focal rhythm and closed the damn thing.

When that happens, it's most likely best to move on. No harm done, because good ideas never vanish: they just reappear in unexpected ways, at unexpected times.



Mark

Yes, fair enough, I tend to translate imprefections in the work into personal problems, and I agree, I can let an effort go with the knowledge that I've added a couple of neural pathways..

Interesting you mention Roerich as I have in fact been doing studies of late 19th-Century Russian painters recently.

>>I have in fact been doing studies of late 19th-Century Russian painters recently.


Yes, I can see that. :)


>>I tend to translate imprefections in the work into personal problems


I can see that, as well. But I hope that you can move beyond this tendency... because I can also see potential in your work, and I would hate to see you burn out before you could explore this potential.

Take good care of yourself. :)



Mark

This seems as though it should be a much higher resolution. Is that the case, and if so are you going to post a link to it when you finish?

I especially love the 16:9 ish aspect ratio of the painting! Make me feel like its an epic movie scene (which I would love to score btw - Maybe i will *giggles*)
Fantasic color , detail and style! I can totally see you being picked up as a storyboard artist or... any kind of field that you want :)