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JohnPatsakios — Boy Adventurer
Published: 2013-01-01 13:57:29 +0000 UTC; Views: 4025; Favourites: 134; Downloads: 0
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A dinosaur-like steed, vast lands, and complete freedom. This was my dream as a boy... And still is.
Painted in Photoshop.
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This amazing work is featured here: Happy Thanksgiving!
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Sorry for the late reply, but thanks heaps!
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Thanks heaps!! Really appreciate it!
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Thanks!! I think this one's my fave too!
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The winged saurs flit and curve across the scape like notes of a permanent soundtrack- one you've visited many times before I assume. The figure (maybe yourself) radiates a dejavu type feeling from the way he seems to levitate in the saddle area- likes he's taking the seat again at the centre of this dream.
. I love the green effect, like water over mossy stone, almost sculptural (is that a word?) .... The clouds and rock forms seem to echo the actions of the living creatures, and on the point of morphing themselves.
It has a realness and an oldness that others of this type of fantasy art never seem to contain. You know, the ones that make you think of a video game. whereas yours has a definite old masters feel.
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Wow, thanks so much! I'm so honored by everything you just said. I don't know what else to say... Everything you described resonates with something inside me... You've fueled my ambition, that's for sure!
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No problem. Your pictures, as anyone would tell you, need no describing. The pleasure was mine, having the chance to admire your work aloud.
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((Woah, awesome. Your choice of which brush to use was good. It just invokes this kind of mysterious, soft and misty look to the setting. I enjoy the concept of his steed, and the limited colour palette really accentuates the otherworldly effect on this painting. Amazing.))
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Thanks heaps! I'm so very glad this painting evokes that kind of atmosphere, I was really trying to make it look quite dream-like and mysterious as you said. Thanks again for the kind words!
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((You are very welcome! Your effort was definitely not wasted. 
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always have admired the fantasy art, nice lighting affects on the mountain
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Thanks so much! I was a bit worried it was a bit too much light but I'm using the whole fantasy thing as an excuse.
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Really nice concept, and your forms are good, but the shadows are all blacked out, the highlights blown and the textures uniform. A few quick environment studies from reference would definitely double the quality here! Keep at it!
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Thanks! I absolutely agree with everything you said! Thanks for the constructive crit - will endeavour to improve on the next!
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What an excellent piece; I love the posing here as well as the texture.
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I really love everything you've put in the picture to convey "freedom" ^^ A vast, exploreable landscape, a flying bird-dinosaur, an adventurer, and even more monsters in the sky
But I think you've used the grain/texture a bit too much. If it's used everywhere, it looks a bit more like you've put a filter on the entire picture, than the actual texture of mountains.
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Thanks so much! And I absolutely agree - I did go overboard with the texture brush (I default to using lots of grain because I'm a grainy kind of guy). I've plonked it into Photoshop and am mucking around with it - will see what I can do to improve it! Thanks for the constructive crit!
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Haha yeah it's an easy mistake to make, those textures improve the picture so much you get tempted to use them all over XD
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