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zancan In reply to ??? [2023-11-16 20:36:35 +0000 UTC]
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TheeArtist85 [2020-08-16 18:19:02 +0000 UTC]
Amazing work!😎
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zancan In reply to threassance [2011-12-18 15:29:13 +0000 UTC]
thank you very much..
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FaeInWonderland [2011-05-28 16:47:46 +0000 UTC]
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First of all I'd like to put that this picture is simply divine. It looks beautiful. The colors are vivid, the faeries are realistic, and you balance creativity and realism splendidly. I can't believe you were able to do something so brilliant and beautiful. I'm insanely jealous.
Now for the scoring.
Vision: You had such a clear vision. You must have known exactly what you wanted when you began or you could not have done this so expertly. The faeries are strategically placed, in my humble opinion, to drag your eyes away from the faerie on his hand to look at all the other things you so painstakingly detailed in and colored. The lighting, some in colours not generally seen, lights up his face yet there are enough shadows around the faeries that you can see their inherent glow. It must have taken some rather thoughtful planning. 5/5
Originality: It seems people are scared to use faeries and humans together very much, more so when they're as realistic as yours are, because they don't want to be opened to public ridicule. While realistic humans and faeries, when separate, are common it's hard to find such a fantastic example of the two together. Having the man using the faerie has a model (or that's my take on it since he's painting) is actually very refreshing. He seems to comfortable with the faerie. She just sits on his hand and his expression... not quite bored, still slightly curious, but mostly just appraising. 4.5/5
Technique: You did amazing with the majority of the sizing and proportions. The faeries are bigger than you usually see them but so much so that they seem awkward. The window seems a bit small but that only adds to the cramped look. The faerie's wings are beautifully coloured, shaped, and positioned. (I, personally, have trouble placing the wings. They're always too big and lopsided). And the texture of the wings, the plant, and your clothes really jumps at me. The only complaint I have for this is your feet. Your right foot's toes are far too long. At first I thought that was merely because it was pressed against the wall but I shook off my shoes and tried it myself and your toes still look too big. 4.5/5
Impact: When I look at this, I see his face. His peaceful, level gaze staring at the faerie wondering how he he should draw her and her fellows. It's lovely, serene, and I just *love* it. I really do. The colors, shading, and textures just give this a very calm, relaxed but powerful impact. 5/5
Over all, this is a very beautiful picture. It was perfectly done and I'm making a favourites folder just so I have somewhere to put this masterpiece. I loved this piece; please continue your inspiring work.
Blessed be,
Fae of the Cheshire Cat system
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zancan In reply to FaeInWonderland [2011-06-04 14:56:38 +0000 UTC]
Thank you for spending the time for a critique that's thorough and inspired. And for the long toes, I don't know... somehow wrote it was typically irish ( but i don't have no roots in Ireland ). I would surely improve that part if I was to paint this painting today.
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mabelair [2011-04-09 05:10:37 +0000 UTC]
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Firstly, congratulations on the wonderful piece. It conveys to me both a sense of whimsy and wistfulness at the same time. In addition, it really gives you almost a sense of normalcy, as if this kind of thing is one of those daily miracles that happens every day, regardless.
With respect to the colour of the light, I'm left wondering what exactly is the source of tbe blue light that predominates the right hand of the picture. It seems a bit incongruous, but is not by any means a fatal flaw; it's just a minor observation.
The man's expression vacillates between wonder and boredom for me, as his attention is both fixed on the fairie on his hand, something which seems almost intimately familiar to him, yes is drawn away almost by the distraction of the other fairies.
In any case, this is a wonderful, wonderful piece of art and I think is top notch. Congratulations on this amazing accomplishment.
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zancan In reply to mabelair [2011-04-11 14:56:40 +0000 UTC]
Thank you for the critique, that was nice. About the blue color; it is part of the choices that art allow us to make, independently of the photo realism. I applied the principle according to which warm light produces cool shadows, and accentuated the effect so that it would emphasize the warmth of the rest of the piece.
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TheKittyMistress [2010-12-26 01:20:01 +0000 UTC]
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Before I start this I just wanna say that I don't usually write critiques, so give me lean-way.
For a long time I've seen this art on the front page but I never bothered to click it because I thought it was a photo, it's only when I read the artist's comments that I saw it was actually an oil painting. Bravo!
It's pretty amazing that you manage to make it look realistic, yet somehow with your own painting style, I can't quite explain it but I'm sure you know what I mean.
Every new second I look at this I discover something new, you paid such great attention to detail! Like the fairies on the paper, and the subtle drop of paint on the lower one's knee, amazing.
I'm trying to find a flaw with this I can point out but I can only seem to find one, the background, which I know is supposed to be bricked, looks almost pixelated, I think that is because of the smudging? Maybe you should keep the same smudging as higher up but still change the shading if you try again next time? I'm sorry that was the only flaw I could find.
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Zacariel [2010-09-07 00:37:33 +0000 UTC]
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Your Vision of thought and development of it, is a new age igniter, you are the Present raising the future my dear brother...
Keep the Light shining, keep the sword of Courage swinging, The Dream Awake, the night to shine like a star, the heart humble, the intention pure, the words full of action, the fear away, the fire burning,the world in equilibrium, the love embracing, the blessings for your suroundings, the true path, the path full of virtue, the virtue full of disposition, and the disposition full of Heavenly Power... may the light of the greatest source of creation be our guide for eternity and beyond...
Much love and Respect from the Universe..
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zancan In reply to 34521467 [2010-07-18 18:54:36 +0000 UTC]
Hi there, thank you for the comment. However this is not constructive criticism as it was intended to be. May I ask you using the comment box instead? Thanks!
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zancan In reply to TheHorseArtist [2010-07-18 18:51:40 +0000 UTC]
Look, thanks for the comment, but why not using the comment box instead of critique ?
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julesiax [2010-07-08 22:50:20 +0000 UTC]
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I was surfing through the front page of deviantart, and this really caught my eye. Pixies and human drawings are amazing, and lovely to look at.
The impact of the drawing is really eye-catching. The glow from the roof really shows off the picture's image, and makes it even better for the viewing. I absolutely love the shading of this, too.
The fairies really stand out, because of the different colours and poses for each. I love how you put one on your hand, as if holding it.
I also like how at the bottom, it kind of looks like you were painting, but it kind of went wrong, and the paintings/sketches on the wall.
The left foot looks a little odd, i dont know why, but it just looks strange.
The tree is really unique and cool, i love how you twisted it.
Overall, AMAZING JOB!
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heysawbones [2010-02-24 12:42:01 +0000 UTC]
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I was surprised to find out that the two lengthy critiques you already have posted on this piece didn't mention some of the things that stood out to me, but here goes-!
PLEASANTRIES
Let me get those out of the way. This piece shouts, I have gobs of knowledge and technical skill. It's beautiful, the lighting is gorgeous, and you somehow even managed to make the concept of 'artist with fairy-muses' far less tasteless than usual. I can enjoy this image for what it is, instead of just ironically, or just for its technical chops. There is no accounting for taste, so this isn't so much part of the critique - I just wanted to say that I appreciate what you've done!
On a technical level, I appreciate how you've worked greens and blues into the shadows on the brick/stone wall at the far end of the room. Unrealistic? Totally, but this is a fantasy piece and I think those aesthetic decisions do a lot for the overall feel of the image. You've even worked a lot of very believable tonal variation into the figure's clothes. I love looking at that shirt. It wrinkles like the material it's made out of. Did you use a reference on this, or is it all from your head? In either case, it is very successful.
SCALE
I have difficulty accepting the scale of the room. It takes away from immersion for me. What kind of space is this? Why is the ceiling so low? It was obviously a creative decision on your part, and perhaps the image just wouldn't have been as successful if you had attempted to create the same atmosphere in a larger space, but the tiny space seems strange. I may be overanalyzing it, but the word that comes to mind for me is 'infeasible'.
ANATOMY
The anatomy is really strong, which made the two things that stood out to me more notable:
-His eyes don't seem to be set into his head.
You've worked at a very high level of detail, and yet his eyes don't seem to be properly seated with eyelids and cast shadows. It looks fine when the image is small, but when I fullview, it stands out for me!
-His right forearm is long, and isn't convincingly rendered towards the wrist.
I'm... not sure what is going on down there. At first I thought it was the angle of the thumb that was off, but I don't think that's it. It almost looks like the wristbone was painted a bit too far from the hand, and then that whole part of the forearm was not painted with respect to the angle of the hand vs. the way the upper arm is positioned.
-Comparatively speaking, the far arm seems short.
I thought that maybe it was the perspective, but the way the upper arm is lit doesn't sell that.
MISCELLANEOUS
The window at the rear of the room is either set crooked in the wall, or the gap in the ceiling is set crooked to that window and the wall itself. It's difficult to say for sure without taking the image into Photoshop or something and checking. One of them is crooked, possibly both.
Anyway, this is a stunning picture overall. I'm sort of surprised you have this up for critique like this. It says you did it in 2005, I'm sure you're even better now!
Best of luck with your future work!
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LanternLeaf In reply to heysawbones [2010-05-21 05:57:59 +0000 UTC]
I didn't really notice a lot of that until you pointed it out but you're right on the mark! I personally didn't mind the small space, I thought it made the piece look more cozy and I still think that might have been the purpose of it being so small, but I do notice the off-ness of the window and the way the wrist doesn't look absolutely normal. lol. I also noticed how every fairy's doin' its own thing... it's really cute.
P.s. Idk what was up with that other dude, but you don't sound rude about the way you critiqued this at all.
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ShadyBlues In reply to heysawbones [2010-03-30 01:36:44 +0000 UTC]
cause faries should certainly fall under the category of feasible too. oh what a joke. lol. obviously it's a tight space around a building, in certain types of architecture they exist. more than anything it sounds like you had to find something to be negative about, when there isn't a huge amount to be negative, especially not what you chose to be negative about.
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heysawbones In reply to ShadyBlues [2010-03-30 01:46:23 +0000 UTC]
You seem to have taken this critique the wrong way! But that is okay! It is not your art, it does not seem like it would be beneficial to take someone else's critique - which they accepted - personally.
In any case, it was not meant to offend anybody. c:
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ShadyBlues In reply to heysawbones [2010-03-30 01:48:39 +0000 UTC]
didn't offend me, i was being critical of you remark about the size of the room, there are definitely other areas you could have focused on that would have actually helped the artist. I critiqued this too. Second page under this artwork lol.
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heysawbones In reply to ShadyBlues [2010-03-30 02:56:00 +0000 UTC]
I am not sure I understand why my critique is inherently less valuable than yours, but okay! Cool beans bro.
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ensoul In reply to heysawbones [2010-05-04 00:58:24 +0000 UTC]
GodDAMN that right forearm is long. I didn't even notice until I read this. Good catch. xD
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ensoul In reply to ensoul [2010-05-04 01:00:18 +0000 UTC]
Also I suggest that you ignore this guy. Critiquing the space is just as legitimate as anything else.
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ShadyBlues In reply to heysawbones [2010-03-30 02:58:22 +0000 UTC]
it's only less value in that you spent a section of it talking about something that the illustrator did based on realism itself lol. which doesn't help him, while i get that its your opinion, taking any sort of rating scales off isn't a good move. the rest of your critique was legit. and it wasn't inherently anything since this is all opinions. nor is mine any good. i just didn't take off for something as picky as a simple opinion not based on any real evidence.
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ShadyBlues [2009-12-30 04:19:48 +0000 UTC]
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The colors in this painting are absolutely beautiful. The warm feeling they create adds a reality rarely scene in art, without taking away interest.
The position of the body, while a little awkward, shows a brilliant amount of personality in the body.
The main thing to improve on in my opinion would be the stone, although you did go for a soft style, I think that if you had added detail to the stone in the background you would have furthered the amount everything else stands out, it's not thought of this way in photography, but certainly if you think about it like a cloud against brick, then the cloud stands out in such contrast that it makes the person look focus in on it, and because you have alot going on you definitely would better it in that way, unless you don't want to sacrifice style, which I understand. [just on the back brick wall and the bricks by the plant pot, and the plant itself, except for the leaves]
And maybe the colors of the fairies, they vary like navy and black, but I believe if they varried more in detail, personal features, stature, and maybe even in more contrasting colors it would compliment the paper palette he was painting from.
I also believe the drawing behind the canvas should have been made a little bit more like van goghs first sketches, it seems like he already has a visual stereotype for fairies, and for me that takes a little bit away from the coherence of the piece, a little more rough and sketchy lines, and a little less cartoony would make it all the better, imho.
The person himself, if you wanted it to appear as though he has been transfixed a little longer, you could make a little bit of stubble evident on his face to illustrate time. And the cream color down towards his waist could be less saturated to fit in with the rest of the shape, to me that shadow appears to be a little too warm.
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zancan In reply to ShadyBlues [2010-01-08 18:06:32 +0000 UTC]
Thanks for taking some time to critic the work. I was unsure of what to say about the various points. While working on such image, the painter keeps asking himself a million questions, every stroke brings new choices to be made. Some choices are artistic ones ( for instance the texture of stones, the style of sketches on the wall ), that I probably wouldn't do differently now, but which another artist would have treated his own personal way, of course.
Technically speaking, there obviously has flaws (that was more than 4 years ago!), which would be improvable, if ever I chose to rework the piece which I euphemistically doubt. However, I show much pondering about technical perfection nowadays. Better would be to concentrate on good concept, true feeling, more spontaneousness... With time the importance of imperfection itself is getting clearer to me in fact _ which is contradictory with the chosen realistic style I understand.
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ShadyBlues In reply to zancan [2010-01-08 22:03:31 +0000 UTC]
yeah, but thanks for replying anyway, your probably bogged down will trillions of messages
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xxLotti [2009-06-14 13:34:07 +0000 UTC]
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To be honest, I can't believe that this is a painting.. It's so breathtaking, beyond words actually. That someone can be so talented and has such a great technique in painting (which can be really difficult) is overwhelming.
The colors are very well chosen, they appear magical, which (I think) is done on purpose. The warmth they express is really saying that it's "Home". And it's such a great concept.
Oh and the anatomy is just so perfect! And the shadows on the shirt are just.. Amazingly done. Also the expression of the man is so interesting.. It's so wonderful that this entire painting has so much little secrets and mysteries to keep you looking for quite a while. It never gets boring.
The perspective is great and doesn't seem weird at all. The placement of everything in the room seems to be right, like it just came from a picture.
The light from the roof just gives it more atmosphere.. Which it already had from the colors and feelings. It's just so beyond this world, which is the whole subject.
The unfinished painting on the floor is so nice, it's almost that it gives more sadness to it, more hopelessness.. But the fairies make it right, they seem to make the whole thing a lot happier. They look so pretty and relaxed that you can't help to get a warm and comfortable feeling from these little creatures.
Even though I know my words won't do justice, and there are a lot of things left unsaid, you'll understand my enthousiasm about this piece. Just looking at it makes me dream away, and it's also really inspiring. Great, amazing, wonderful work.
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zancan In reply to xxLotti [2009-06-14 20:52:45 +0000 UTC]
Thank you a lot for putting down in words your feelings, this is much appreciated.
The unfinished painting on the floor is his palette, in fact.
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