amazing artwork!!!

Thank you :)

Very good light!

Thank you

Has the feels..
Is the background a photo?

It's based on one, yes, with most of it painted out because it was just too busy otherwise.

:)

hey, i like these moods. you do them well.

Haha thank you, but doing them too ofter can become a bit tiresome as well.

heh, that's understandable yeah.
there is no loss in changing focus when all is handled with excellence, anyway.)

Dang dude, that's an amazing job!

Thank you!

such a pretty vulture

If we say it's happy hour then it's more of a positive contemplation mood. :>

I suppose so, though not sure if that still is in the spirit of the picture then :D

Reminds me of lyrics to one of my fav sonas by Devil Makes Three. Beautiful work.

Thank you very much!

I really like your composition on this piece. I'm not normally a fan of depth of field but it fits here to capture their sense of isolation in a public place. The glasses, while poor bartending, help convey they're drinking with an agenda. The only piece that's unclear to me are the taps(?) Over their shoulder.
The body language and expression finish off the message well. I am curious if it was intentional to have them looking down at the viewer or if it just worked out that way because you're trying to place the viewer at a nearby table?

Hey, yeah the depth of field is something that works sometimes better, sometimes less so but is just necessary as a timesaver for these tier of pictures. As for the taps... yeah in retrospect probably could have done them a bit better, also probably didn't help that i cropped it a bit more tightly than it was originally planned around that edge. Hmmm, as for the eyes, not necessarily planned, the viewer isn't really supposed to be a physical manifestation here, the whole aspect of being alone is a major part of it.

that depth of field is delicious <3

Thank you :)

I should be thanking you for the inspiration... after staring at this for a while longer, I got inspired to do a real painting for the first time in weeks. thank you :)

Awesome! You go an rock that painting!

That's when mi real self come out.
Deeply awesome, Thank you Mr. Nomax.

No thank you! :)

beautiful work!

Thank you!

this is so very emotional N... the lighting is perfect...

V.

Thank you :)

wonderful

Thanks!

I really like how much this picture tightened up your brushwork. I'm used to a lot more brush 'noise' in your pieces, and it's nice to see you turn out a piece where the brushes have more finesse and clarity.

Yeah it always fluctuates a bit depending on my mood, the feeling of the picture and just my experimentations.

If you're interested, a time-saving trick I've found for getting that smoother look, at least on the lower luminosity portions, is usage of Filter Average and/or Gaussian Blur at very small values; they'll 'fuzz' the finer brushstrokes in a way that looks fairly natural to the eye.

For example, if you were to point-to-point select the lammergeier's shirt or the darker portions of his forearm, a gaussian blur with a value between 0.25 and 1 will give it a 'fuzzy' look that will soften up the edges of the brush strokes.

(And alternating Guassian Blur with Add Noise will forgive a thousand sins on most any work.)

Thanks, woöö see if it makes sense with my workflow.

Fine, FINE lighting effect in general, especially on his fur and shading on his shirt, LOVE the "brush stroke' work on his fur! This piece has guts.

Thank you very much!

oh very well done! And i can see an improvment over your last few artworks.

Ah thank you very much :) That's always nice to hear

Badass!