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Published: 2013-01-12 23:57:01 +0000 UTC; Views: 2492; Favourites: 71; Downloads: 47
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Description First of all, some of you will think this piece looks familiar.

I indeed used a motive by mick39- and dont worry, i got her explicit permission to use some of her artworks for practise purposes, and also as promised, i hereby link you to her original submission

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and also : the lineart and motive is Β© Mick 39 !!!


Now that this is dealt with:

I spent 2 weeks on this piece- and I did this for three reasons

1. I wanted to learn about the anatomy of sergals, as i find anatomy especially in sergals is a sensitive and important matter
2. I wanted to improve my skills of shading and coloring without having to worry about the subject- that is why I used one of micks wonderful pieces and worked on it as base
3. I wanted to give mick my very special little credit to what she has created

The motive itself may not me of my creation, I took micks original and sketched the outlines of this beautiful sergal onto a new canvas, but every other brushstroke, all the shading and color, all of the rest was done by my own hands and without trying to imitate micks original, but instead developing my own style

I tried giving it my own touch-- i also did not use micks picture as guideline how to set certain values, because that also is better learned by doing it alone

This particular piece again, gave me a huge advancement-- with working on the armor, I learned how to achieve clear, and sharp borders, without outlines, and getting rid of the classic unsharp photoshop look
I also tried for the very first time, a picture based on greyscale, not on color-- the color was indeed, the last thing that was given to this picture.

I am extremely happy how this turned out, even if I already spot a million mistakes-both perspective wise and technique wise, but still I have to move on, and i think you can see the effort i put into this.

I think my art , my style has developed by a huge step, and I reached a new plateau of maturity what this matter is concerned.

I have a ton of projects for the next weeks as I have some requests from buddies, and while doing this piece, I got lots of inspiration for more but this time 100 % original Chiral made art.


So i hope you enjoy the piece and stay tuned for more pictures, which will most definitely follow in now shorter periods.


~Chiral
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Comments: 10

Octavia-X [2018-06-24 13:44:14 +0000 UTC]

How cool! I like it!

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brokencreation [2013-07-17 12:50:21 +0000 UTC]

not bad not bad. quite nice. i would work on your rock formation and pushing your values a bit more though and pushed the rocky formations in the distance back more with some volumetric fog and dust and such. to make it feel more desolate. but over all very strong

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Vertex-Chiral In reply to brokencreation [2013-07-23 11:12:20 +0000 UTC]

Ah hey, sorry for the late response!

Thanks for the little critique, I am already working on all the valid points you stated, especially using the whole palette of values is somehow a hard task for me? I seem to fear stongt lighting a bit.


Still, thanks for taking the time to look at it and your kind words :3

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brokencreation In reply to Vertex-Chiral [2013-07-23 11:34:23 +0000 UTC]

oh the lights are fine its the transitionΒ  from light to dark you need to try make stronger mostly

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WhIppIng-b0y [2013-02-09 20:15:35 +0000 UTC]

Very nice.

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Wolf-Fang4 [2013-01-14 15:14:38 +0000 UTC]

killer

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I-Like-Bats [2013-01-13 07:10:54 +0000 UTC]

I like.

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Vertex-Chiral In reply to I-Like-Bats [2013-01-13 10:51:06 +0000 UTC]

Me too^^ Thanks

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kryvian [2013-01-13 06:25:39 +0000 UTC]

this is real nice <3

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Vertex-Chiral In reply to kryvian [2013-01-13 10:50:56 +0000 UTC]

aaws. thank you <3

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