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JPMNeg — Landscape No 7
#dark #digital #fantasy #landscape #nature
Published: 2015-08-22 15:11:02 +0000 UTC; Views: 770; Favourites: 54; Downloads: 4
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Painted in Gimp
Mostly done using only a hard round and a soft oval brush.
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I love it =] very well made, the ripples look very realistic
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I never tried painting in Gimp, but I didnt know you could make paintings like this in it, really moody and beautiful details!
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Gimp is probably the closest thing to ps that is free.
Thank you very much for such a nice comment.
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Woah, you're getting really great with landscapes... this is amazing!
Perfect tectures, great scenery and composition - altogehter, a perfect setting for the beginning of a dark fairy tale. 
I'm especially intrigued by the reflection in the lake, you did a truly great job on that. One of my favourites from you!
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Wow, thank you.
Landscapes seem to be my strong point.
Think it is because I can imagine it being a place where I would like to be.
An escape from reality I guess.
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Thanks bro, kinda surprised by the reactions this has gotten.
Honestly I thought it was going to be a dud.
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Yea same thing happens to me, sometimes you just carn't tell when its your own work.
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Nice painted, I love the details and the colours 
I''m not sure however if grass shouldn't reflect on the water..
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Thank you for your kind comment and pointing out the missing grass reflection.
Gimp is hard to learn but worth the effort, there are a lot of youtube tutorial vids to help.
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Hmm, indeed there are. I must try one day. But you know, when you know one program, it's hard to switch to another one. But on the other hand, everyone needs sometimes some kind of challenge... We'll see. Anyway, one more time - congratulations
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Looks great. There's a tremendous amount of detailed work in that grass and the reflection of the mountain in the water is impressive. Excellent work.
Have a very good day.
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Thank you so much professor.
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Thank you for the nice comment.
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This is haunting! I really like the delicate smoke/cloud on top.
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Thank you very much, I appreciate that.
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The reflection of the mountain looks really nice. I like how everything is singular in this picture. One bird, One tree, etc. It gives the picture a sense of lonliness.
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Thank you very much, your comment really means a lot.
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Great idea, Joe! Very nicely chosen colors, pleasing to the eyes. It took a long time you painting?
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Thank you Karol, it’s hard to say how long because I do some each day.
Don’t have the time to work all at once.
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I understand, thanks for your answer.
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Its Dark and Fancy, what a nice touch.
Keep doing art.
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lovely dark! I like it! good job on the water!
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Thank you very much.
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I didn't really want to do another landscape but was out of creative ideas.
Overall I like how it turned out, thank you very much.
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even so, its a beautiful work and you did great, and of course, always a pleasure
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Looks amazing
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Water is fun but grass is the worst thing to draw.
Thank you so much.
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Water is a whole lot of experiments but it mostly turns out well, as long as oversaturated turquoise stays out of the way, while grass is so complicated, mainly because you can't just slap it on to every surface everywhere and don't even get me started on the shadows...
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This was done almost entirely with 2 brushes, 1 hard round and 1 soft oval.
I did cheat on the grass, duplicate and flip to cut down on the blades work.
Needs something to break up the grass though.
Been working long hours and haven't been motivated lately, just wanted to do something.
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Although I used GIMP for about a year (then I got Photoshop), I am not entirely sure how the brushes there work, but I have seen a few GIMP brushes around Deviantart.Maybe adding them would make things easier.The basic round brushes can be used to create almost everything, but textures and other really detailed things are much easier to create with custom brushes.
Grass is difficult to draw.It took me a really long time to make it look somewhat acceptable and there is still so much to do.Maybe adding more colors to it would break that unified feel of it.
Same here, I have so many sketches and ideas but not the motivation to make them into drawings.What I do to sort of motivate myself is that I look at some really good and professional artists and I tell myself that if I keep practising and keep drawing, my works will one day look like theirs.And it's true! You improve with every drawing
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My lack of motivation comes more from the fatigue of working long hours.
Adding more colors is a good idea for the grass, probably just going to go on to something new though.
I have a ton of brushes and lots for texture, but want to get away from relying to heavily on them.
Gimp lets you use Adobe brushes also. Wanted to get back to basics on this.
I think it is important to be able to paint without over using textures.
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When it comes to digital art, it is all a very individual thing.Everybody has a unique way of drawing or painting.Some people paint everything by hand and some people use a lot of textures, but I believe that everything sort of works as long as you know at least a bit of what you're doing.I, for one, use textures, mainly on rocks and sometimes trees, but I do not just grab a random image and slap it onto a blank surface.Using too many textures never works since it hurts to look at the finished work because there are so many details everywhere.So as I said, it is up to each artist to use textures or draw things by hand.That is my opinion at least
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Don’t get me wrong on using texture brushes, I will still be using them a lot.
They are an important tool, just didn't rely on them to much here.
An absolute must on rocks,skin and a million other things.
They make a huge difference in the level of work.
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Though in PS, you can make a pretty realistic rock texture using the filters, texture brushes are still important, if you aim to give your works a realistic feel.Some artists' styles have absolutely no need of textures and still look great
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This is really stunning. The colors are so warm and give your art an amazing look. Very good job!
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Thank you for your kind comment, it really means a lot.
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