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Comments: 22

bianres [2015-04-04 06:28:26 +0000 UTC]

nice, i love the smooth touch on this painting. Good study!

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JohnDoeHanibari [2015-01-17 09:47:37 +0000 UTC]

i'm going to attempt a study of your portrait study
hope you don't mind!

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iatemypencils [2013-08-06 02:52:17 +0000 UTC]

nice

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tonyhurst [2012-09-19 18:29:54 +0000 UTC]

Simply awesome! I salute you sir.

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depingo [2012-01-19 21:18:48 +0000 UTC]

I'm really loving the brushwork on this! Was this entirely done in Painter or did you use Photoshop too? Anyway, it's beautiful!

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Ascending-Storm [2011-08-18 17:36:30 +0000 UTC]

Amazing work!

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kios18 [2010-12-25 15:45:51 +0000 UTC]

Classic one !!! ..... but what happened with right eye ? ....

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surthur In reply to kios18 [2011-05-06 03:24:38 +0000 UTC]

he turned odin.

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Morgainelefee [2010-12-22 08:42:50 +0000 UTC]

Feels like a fine oil painting, great mood!

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erlendcapodanno [2010-12-22 02:54:16 +0000 UTC]

Love the colours!

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Reihn [2009-05-30 11:41:29 +0000 UTC]

Awesome old person is awesome.

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anoveltyspoon [2009-04-03 10:47:07 +0000 UTC]

that looks like my grandad =] beautiful


thanks for making me smile

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DanyC [2008-06-26 19:22:52 +0000 UTC]

Very cool; I like the way you simulated the canvas showing through. Transparent darks and opaque lights, cool stuff.

I think I've seen you around somewhere; Conceptart?

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faxtar In reply to DanyC [2008-06-26 20:59:05 +0000 UTC]

Yeah! Cool you picked up on the texture and what I was trying to simulate with the transparent darks and opaque lights.
If you want to try it, first you do the painting and then you bring in the canvas texture on a new layer, set that layer to Overlay, hide that layer, then added a layer mask to that layer and then Apply Image to the mask, un-hide the layer, then Invert the mask so now the texture will only show up in the dark areas of the painting. You may have to adjust the levels of the layer mask and bring down the opacity of the whole layer, but thats basically it.
I post at concept art every now and then, same screen name I have here. Thanks!

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DanyC In reply to faxtar [2008-06-26 22:55:41 +0000 UTC]

Ah, I see. At first I thought it was just painting light over the dark canvas underlayer. But the strokes didn't really look that way; that makes more sense.

No problem!

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faxtar In reply to DanyC [2008-06-27 00:02:04 +0000 UTC]

yeah, I tried to make it look like thats what I did, but it doesn't really work out that well. I think it works good as a middle step and maybe I should go back and reestablish the opaque lights as actual strokes over the dark canvas. thanks!

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DanyC In reply to faxtar [2008-06-27 02:15:27 +0000 UTC]

No problem

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Herwin-DU [2008-06-21 15:53:30 +0000 UTC]

cool
i like it
thank's
herwin

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evenstar785 [2008-06-21 14:19:50 +0000 UTC]

omg, he only has one eye!!! What did you do with the other one?! o.O

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faxtar In reply to evenstar785 [2008-06-21 19:37:26 +0000 UTC]

My artistic license says I'm allowed to be lazy. What have you been up to?

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evenstar785 In reply to faxtar [2008-06-22 04:13:34 +0000 UTC]

I'm going to Maine!!

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faxtar In reply to evenstar785 [2008-06-22 13:42:30 +0000 UTC]

Woah, you got a job up there? Goodluck, pack a coat!

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