Digital Painting: Fist of Heaven

[Blackarts]

Originally planned to be a 3d model, but after realizing how lazy I am I decided just to paint it. It took about 2 nights of work and most of today....all done in Painter 7, with a wee bit of photoslop to correct some colors. I went a little mental with the lightining bolt, but i think it works.

comments welcome!

http://members.shaw.ca/dmandryk/Assets/Images/portfolio%20images/fist_of_heaven_lowres.jpg

[silicore designs]

Impressive. You rendered the wings quite nicely and especially the angelic glow as well. It's like the future and the past collided in terms of design which is fresh and very nice . Good job.

[Goo]

awesome, the blurry background gives a warm fuzzy feel and great wrok on the lightning.

1 thing though, is that your shoulder guard looks a tad too flat, that's just my opinion though

[Archangelus]

Dang!
Your fist hit me in the face!
Really Good work.
Kudos!

[killing.people]

this looks cool.

i feel you made his face too tall. his mouth looks to me, to be to high in retrospect to the size of his head. i think maybe the front part of his helmet confused you.

i think if you drew his nose protruding from under his helmet and squashed his mouth it would fix this problem, however you might loose the consistancy in strokes around that area, it all depends on how you approach fixing it.

in my opinon, i feel that his right hand - the hand highest up on the swords handle - is too big, and makes the image look flat in that area. logically, the hand looks to be comming out of his chest, though i see it the way you had intended.

repainting the hand smaller, as well as turning it slightly away - or pushing its palm back, to imply a convincing angle so that the hand looks like it is comming from around the subjects torso, like that of the gripped hand in the foreground in which its wrist is curled inward.

-kill

[Blackarts]

thanks! tried to incorporate some off that feedback. The link should be pointing at an updated version.


excellent feedback killing people, you really pointed out a lot of problem areas that gave me trouble. Hands especially are an area i am determined to master this year.

cheers.

[Travis_Bourbeau]

Man you suck you paint like a 4 year old !


at least you have modeling to fall back on ! if you dont get lost in painterland






just messin post some of the other angel works as well

[John P.]

Wow. Really nice piece!

I don't really have much to crit, but what I found was that the handle of the sword seems to be burried into his thumb area on his right hand.

I did a fast 'paintover' to show what I mean(compare):

http://home.online.no/~johmoe/images/fist_of_heaven_paintover.jpg


So do with that as you wish. :)



Oh - the jaw and mouth area looks exactly like Robocop. :D

Good job! :)

[soupface]

blackarts, i don't want to harp on the crits you've gotten so far (constructive as they are), but his wings lack the same sense of 'being there' as the rest of his body. they're just sorta painted there, without the nice shading the rest of his armour has.

nonetheless, the concept and execution are kick-ass.

[Blackarts]

soup:

intersting, the wings werent bugging me until you mentioned it....i went back and played with the color a bit, and tried to give them a bit more depth....I think they were a bit flat before. Thanks for pointing that out.

john P:

you are right about that I think, I think it looks better now.

Thanks for the comments folks.

you might have to hit F5 to refresh the image at the top.

cheers

[chukw]

Beautiful piece, and you're incorporating the crits really well. You should reference bird anatomy for the wings, tho- yours look too fake and made up. I'd post a ref for you, but can't do it from work. Add some nice structure there and you'll be unstoppable! Have you thought about adding some bluewhite-hot highlights on the figure from the electrical arcs on the sword? You've set up a perfect light source for it....

[Yaseck]

The armour and the wings... Hmm... I just don't get it...