Dragonesque Warlock

[OLSEN]

Hey friends,

here's todays work from me. I'm trying to break some bad routines with this one.. more or less doing everything the opposite way compared to how I usually work. Got mixed feelings about the way it turned out though. I'm afraid it's a bit too dark, a bit too blurry, and quite frankly not as exiting as it could have been, but I've worked enough on it and i'd rather move on to something new right now. I had fun doing it though, and I would love to hear what you people think of it.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v31/ksm_olsen/Stuff1.jpg

[Ssenkrah Semaj]

Crit: It's vague, dark, moody, anatomically incorrect and I like it alot, very grotesque. Well done.

[P.R]

I love the colors, and the design is really cool!
How did you do that? is it traditionnal oil painting?

Well done

Pascal

[Matt Dixon]

Ooh, this is an interesting style for you, Stefan. It has much more volume that your usual work, if you know what I mean - that creature looks really solid and three-dimensional. I like it.

Yes, there are a lot of dark areas, but that's a feature of a lot of your work. It doesn't bother me as long as there's enough information in the rest of the image for the flat dark bits to make sense. There is here, though having the dark areas all at roughly the same value is flatten the pic out a little.

Good stuff! I'll look forward to seeing what else comes out of this new approach..!

[Matt Smith]

Hey Olsen, I think it looks pretty good. I dont know if I would say its blurry, it still has the same look that alot of your other pieces have, where its really smooth faded look and you bring that texture in. The piece does seem alittle ambigious especially with the background, but maybe thats what you were going for. I really like the head design alot.

[RobHughes]

Slayer,

I love all that texture and grit. It just lacks some refference to the "real" to convince me of its purpose. You have betrayed your heart with it's vaugness. You dont belive it and neither do I.

Plus it's so big it does not fit on my screan and I can only see part at a time. Smaller might be better, for review purposes.

Rob

[Skank]

wow
this is your most convincing painting to date IMO
very frazetta look to it

i think it could benifit from some cleaner edges on a couple parts (shoulder/neck area) bot overall it has a great sense of depth and solidity.

good work!

[wottan]

Very nice, nice mood in the picture. The only thing I would change personally, is just some more detail on the outstretched hand, but that is just me.

[Verithin]

My only crit would be that the lighting behind the head doesn't seem motivated. It appears to be there only to give a great silouette (which it does wonderfully). I think if you could give it a reason for being there you would add more depth / story-wise to the piece.

Other than that I love the design, colours, darkness and mark making! Gorgeous...

[OLSEN]

Ssenkrah Semaj: I'm glad you find it grotesque, that was the feeling i was going for. The anatomy is a bit weird, definitly something I need to work more on.

P.R: It's not an oil painting, it's done in Corel Painter 8. Thanks. :)

Matt Dixon: The dark values lost a lot of information when i knocked the pure black out of the painting.. it's an unwanted effect of the way i worked. I need to sort that out. I'm not sure what will come out of this.. hopefully something good. :)

Matt Smith: Thanks. Yeah, it is kinda ambigious. It's on purpose though, there were some more symbolic stuff going on in the early WIPs, but in the end i didn't feel they added anything but confusion. But "on purpose" doesn't mean I made the right choise... Btw.. it's very blurry on my screen.. I suppose it's because my monitor sucks..

Ron Hughes: I see what you mean, and I'm working on it.

Skank: I'm glad you like it. thanks for the feedback.

Wottan: Thanks. More detail could be perhaps be usefull on the hand. Hands are still a small problem for me, whenever I feel a hand is "good enough" i usually leave it.. I'm getting more confident about them as I'm doing tons of hand studies at the moment though, so stand by for more better hands in the future. :)

Verithin: Interesting you would comment on the light in the background since that was one of the few thing is felt completely confident about.. good comment. Got my brain working. Thanks.



Thanks all again for the feedback, you're all too kind. :)

I'll keep your comments in close mind in the future.

[Sems]

I really like this work, well I seem to like most of your works! keep posting I want to see what ever else your mind can come up with.