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A-Teivos β Through the Couvrant taiga
Published: 2011-02-18 17:16:59 +0000 UTC; Views: 1634; Favourites: 59; Downloads: 55
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My greatly overdue (but finished, at last) part of an art trade with Took a good year as it seems o.OThe original idea was to put Reptile into some rather icy and rather "bad" environment, presumably northern from Couvrant, as that pretty fits the setting. Lotsa ice, snow, some frozen castles and overal "polar" feeling.
The finished piece is rather something one could encounter in Tatras or Alps. Reptile searches his way through the Taiga around Couvrant during the polar night in summer and is still suprised by the fact that the sun kinda... doesn't want to go down!
Character Β©Patrick Reichel
Art Β©Marek "Teivos" Statelov
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Comments: 31
Wow that's some awesome lighting! I love the soft blue highlights.
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You have requested critique, so I shall comment!
The shading is done beautifully, the off-side lighting in particular. I may just have to pinch that idea to give definition to heavily shaded shapes in the future >.>
I don't think his trousers work though. Having a separate sleeve for his tail just looks... odd. Maybe if his shirt had sleeves, but I think it throws it off a bit that he has a sleeve for his butt, but not his arms.
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Thanks! As for the trousers, I got more comments about the idea of making a tail sleeve. It seemed to me as the only logical solution, as I have no other idea about how to solve it xD I know it looks stupid and all, but.... can it be solved better?
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Oh wow, the background looks pretty amazing and beautiful, the coloring and the envirotment looks great. And your ReptileΒ΄s concept looks impressive, his clothes design somehow fits good on him, a big surprise to see him wearing boots heh. I like your results ^ ^
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Gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaw, BUDDY!!! ^__^ Why haven't I seen this???? Right, I was gone for 2 days.
WHAT a surprise, hmmmmmmmmmm! THANKS SOOOOOO MUCH, dear Marek! 
+) The background is really stunning, I like the "burning dark clouds" effect here. ^^ The fortress in the background reminds me of "Sauron's keep", hehehehe... huge, dark, evil and just scary! ^^
+) Lighting and shading adds a great atmosphere and you've used all the colours in a "painted" way. It really looks like a painting to me, and it's just so warm... AND cold at the same time.
+) Best part: REPTILE!!
I love how you've designed a "warmer full body covering cloth"! ^____^ Yeah, pants with third hole for the tail, hehehehe. Also, his boots are excellent (even if his claws must be cut or shortened for this, buuuuut nevermind 
THANKSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Heh, I already expected that you were somewhere away, no worries
+) You know, as I maybe told you before, this picture was the first one where I enjoyed making the background maybe even more than the actual character - what is weird for me ;D (And you can see I like fortresses 
+) I wanted to try something new also with the painting - I've seen many people using that technique and was curious if I'm able to at least emulate it xD Guess next time I should "paint" also the character
+) Clothes for tailed characters are always tricky, that's why I resigned on tails with my characters xD But here I didn't have any way around so I had to face it
Oh yes, the boots... it would be simplest to just leave holes for the claws, but then they wouldn't fulfill the function of shielding from snow and water
Heheh, you're welcome 
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About the "secondary light"... I know what you mean. 
It looks great, though... we cannot tell from WHERE the light source might come! XD
Anyway, cool work!
And forget about the scale texture here, hehehe! ^__^
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Yup, exactly! And usually it's reflected light from the environment or some diffuse light so you cannot really tell the source, cause there is no direct source ;D
Heheh, I'm glad you like it
You know, perfectionist - I see I don't see the texture there xD
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Great Reptile drawing you made. ^^
His suit kinda fits him.
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dobry obrazok, ale nieco sa mi nezda na tej figure. hlavne ta lava ruka mi pride kratka. inak sa mi pacia tie odlesky
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Perspektiva
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no sak prave ta perspektivna skratka je nejaka divna bo sa mi zda ze ta ruka je kratka...ale v podstate mozno neni kratka, ale len tak vyzera v tom ohybe. nvm proste mi je nejaka podozriva a nvm preco
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Jj, je mozne ze to bude pravy tym tienovanim. Ale akonahle to nevyzera uplne zrozumitelne pre ostatnych ludi, je jasne ze tam je nieco vadne
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nooo. tiez som si z pociatku vravel ze ci to nebude tym osvietenim co ide od lakta smerom k plecu
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jj, prave to robi docela dost, takze tam som sa asi najviac sekol
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tak tam je teda bod urazu. mne sa to hned tam zdalo nejake podozrive
ma napada ze uz by som tiez mohol dakedy zas zacat nieco take robit. mam teraz vela nacrtkov, ale nejak sa mi nechce kreslit :/ a na malovanie mam malo materialu(platna, sololit...)
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Vidis to
njn, toto mi trvalo hodne dlho lebo som bol co? Lenivyyyy
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njn
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Hej hej, najtazsie je presvedcit sa a chytit tu ceruzku, potom to uz ide ako po masle
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to hej... v podstate keby nemam rozrobeny obraz tak asi ani nic nemalujem bo zas umyvat stetce
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I completely like the shading and the details on the boots!
And the overall atmosphere is quite impressive ;D
All in all: great work!
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This pic is awesome in a number of ways but I'm surprised to see Reppy wearing boots
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You know, even his feet can get cold, therefore he has proper boots
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Well yeah, I'm just saying it's a first :3
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