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jackieocean — Queen of the Golden Wood
Published: 2004-09-12 22:01:08 +0000 UTC; Views: 6682; Favourites: 176; Downloads: 239
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Even the simplest of trees can serve as a fitting throne for the graceful elf queen. This is inspired by the art nouveau style of Alphonse Mucha. The drawing was done on paper, inked, scanned, and then completely colored in Photoshop. It was completed in September of 2002.Even though this is an older drawing, it is still a favorite of mine. I've been toying around with the idea of re-doing it though, because I have learned a ton in terms of digital coloring since when I first made this.
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It's beautiful. Art Nouveau is perfect for the elves
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Beautiful. Mucha's inspiration really comes through.
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I so totally want to attempt to make a dress like that someday. Awesomeness.
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Man, I'd love to have a dress like that too. How awesome would it be if the next trend in the fashion world was art nouveau?
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When I get done with my current projects and I can afford to try, I'm so totally gonna (if it's cool with you, of course.) I'll send lots of pictures.
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That'd be totally cool! And I'd love to see pictures.
Also, I was looking through your stock account and got some ideas for a piratey picture. I might be sending you a message sometime soon with a few usage questions.
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Certainly. I love your art and can't wait to see what you'd do with my stock.
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Oh my God! I saw this several years ago on another site... I had no idea you were the artist!
I had never seen Galadriel depicted like this. It's nice to see her in a more natural way than in the film.
I absolutely love this.
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This looks absolutely amazing! The detail alone is just wonderful and the colors go so nicely together.
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Thank you! This is an older picture of mine - I think I might go back and recolor it at some point.
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Really? I think it's wonderful as is, but you're the artist!
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Found your gallery through the main page (your Jack Sparrow pic was there) and thought I'd go poking around the rest of it. Even if this is old, it's gorgeous. I love the dress especially. The fashion designer side of me would love to make that.
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I can't believe one of my pics made it onto the main page. Craziness! That said, I'm glad that you're enjoying looking through my gallery. Thanks for taking the time to comment!
It's too bad people don't make dresses like that.
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I think it'd be interesting to see what comes up if you re-did it, but if you don't, then it won't be a loss. It's still good.
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Yeah, the re-do is always a [project that's hanging around in the back of my mind.
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At any rate, if you decide to do it I'll make sure and check it out as soon as it comes up.
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This is beautiful! It looks like it could be stained glass.
Too small a version, though! : D
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Thanks! It's an older piece of mine that I actually want to redo. When I dig out the CD that I have this saved on I'll have to upload a larger copy of this.
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I'm sorry your work is too good for me to form coherent comments on it. I really love the way you compose and color images.
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Ye-gads. How brillant -- I don't even know where to start on this one. Adding it to meh faves ^^
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It seems a lot of your earliest works here have an art nouveau style to them. I think this is my favorite of those.
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I love art nouveau, and was experimenting with it a lot more back then. I still draw on it for influence and inspiration, but I try to adapt it more to my style instead of it being straight art nouveau.
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Mmmm....Mucha... But I guess JOB wouldn't really fit behind Galadriel, huh? Heh, I really like this.
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Yeah, Galadriel never really seemed like a smoker to me.
Thanks for the feedback!
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This is really nice! Its so rare to see pics of Galadriel as anything other than stately Lorien queen, whereas this really brings to mind a younger Noldor princess
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Thank you! I had a lot of fun making a non-standard image of Galadriel.
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I love the composition. I would love to see what changes you decide to make if you do redo it
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I'd mostly improve the coloring. I was still teaching myself a lot of things in photoshop when I did this picture, and since then I know I can do a better job.
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I know what you mean, I have been teaching myself for the last 2 months, and now I look at what I did two months ago and I want to do a lot more to it
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The benefit or working digitally - it's easy to make edits
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The hair is my favorite part too
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I certainly hope you try again! this one alone blows me away, I get really excited picturing something even MORE! I love the style
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I'm glad you like it so much - this style is really fun to work with. And don't worry, any future attempts will definitely be posted here
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