Whoa... I have to say I love the vibrant colours on this. Excellent work, very sharp and cool.

Thank you!

This is amazing, very beautiful and it doesnt look overworked... nice! :-D

Thanks!

I don't think it looks overworked at all, and in fact, zooming in, I love seeing all the strokes. It makes it even more vibrant and active a piece. Usually one wants to minimize a view as it tightens things up. Not here. Well done! LOVE the browns and blues. One of my favorite color combinations.

Thank you for the wonderful reply!

Yes, i noticed my works tend to look worse when small. It's because I usually start out without a plan and my compositions end up random and lack the punch (unlike yours; I'm in awe just how strong you manage to make your works with very basic means).
I think too much locally, in terms of brush strokes, details and textures and totaly forget the work as a whole. It's rather evident and i'll put the effort to learn.

I honestly don't know what you mean in regards to my work, but I find this stunning. I can see what you mean in regards to working really zoomed in. With digital media, it's much easier and much more seductive to work on small areas up close. Still, when I zoomed this up, I liked what I saw. It didn't get rougher, it got more interesting. I also think it works as a thumbnail. The whole thing's enticing.

Thanks again!

Though I wasn't refering to working zoomed in - i work zoomed out most of the time (i try to).


"I honestly don't know what you mean in regards to my work, but I find this stunning."
If that wasn't sarcasm, let me rephraze. :]
Unskilled artists usually make the mistake of getting boggled down in details and forget the work as a whole, resulting in the work falling apart in a mess of useless detail. That's my problem. While your works look great as unified wholes and and compositions are strong and right to the point.

Wow, looking over my own sentence again, it makes almost no sense. What I meant, and what you seemed to have been able to glean from my clumsy words was that I don't see exactly what you're saying in regards to -my- work and that I find this piece of -yours- stunning. :"D And no, there was no sarcasm, just lousy writing. I usually reread everything I post before posting. I obviously didn't. Sorry about that.

Thanks again for kind words about my stuff. I don't think you were bogged down in this and while the composition is simple, it works to my eye. The bird's head along with its negative space forms a sort of swirl, or even a very rough sort of ying-yangy kind of thing. As to possible anatomical mistakes (I don't know enough about birds to know) the colors, care and detailing more than compensate, at least to me. We're all our own worst critics, and I am certainly an example of that.

Regardless, thanks. I'm looking forward to seeing what you do next.

I have to say that that's awesome! I love it's blending.

Thank you!

awesome job again!

Thanks!

the eye... is... amazing... if you need anything to redeem this pic in your mind pick the eye. it is very lifelike, as close as it can come with digital media. you can actually see the distance between the surface of the eye and the iris itself, not many people can accomplish that. people are usually stuck slapping it on the outside of the eyeball, most of the time myself included when I give them irises at all. amazing dude.

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and quit bashing on yourself man, you rock hard.

Thankies!
(Though the eye itself is in the wrong place, wrong size and wrong shape.)

Give me time about the bashing part. I'm bashing myself less with every picture. I'm progressing in babysteps. heheh. :]

freakin' amazing!

it's incredible that 'chaotic' lines, dots and strokes can create such extremely sharp and realistic image. i'm completely mesmerized! perfect work!

Wow. Thank you!

Thats really nize!!

Thanks a very!

The next pic of mine you color PLZ go over the lines and do straight color~

Sure!

But... wouldn't that be called a omfgheoverpaintedsomeoneelsespicturewhataloser?

I'm thinking of attempting that dragon tatoo of yours when i get time. It's absolutely perfect. Totaly impossible to color. Yes, I like ruining someone elses works even more. :]

Hm. Overworked, eh? Not to my eye. In fact this comes across as a pretty damn solid study. I had to get tight in before I could sense the digital in it, and for that alone you should receive applause! I'm a sucker for ultramarine blue, too. Lovely framing of that eye!

Wow, Thankies! :]

I didn't notice the eye was effectively framed by blue until you mentioned it. I have alot of learning to do.
Scanned textures of stuff (like that dirt on its beak) used as papers give that "i'm not digital, I'm not digital, I'm not digital" impression. Well, cause in essence, the textures ain't.

Good point. Something I don't play with enough; I'll have to give that a spin next picture!

In case you do: pastels and oil pastels are most responsive to paper texture, right next to "Blunt chalk". Digital watercolor too, but it works and looks differently.
You can control how responsive a tool is by changint the Grain value - less value = more aggressive texture. (Often mine is set to 13 - it seems to map the entire texture value range to the pressure range the closest and still allows for covering when needed.)

It's fun. Sadly, Painter has a fixed amount of memory it can devote to papers, so you can either have a few large ones or lots of small ones in your library. Switching libraries is an option, but it can become tedious, esp. when you're at the high of inspiration making a very swoosh-swooh-splat type of loose/expressive masterpiece.

You can add papers to custom toolbars same way as brushes, for quick switching between your favorites.

AWESOME. Thank you for the advice! I know what I'll be doing tomorrow morning.

absolutely amazing colors

brilliant work!

Thank you! :]

Says it all. Simply amazing! o__o

I love the way you build up textures. A classic and fresh feel all at once. It doesn't seem overworked, and all those colors work harmoniously and vibrantly. :]

holy crap! its beautiful!