Rodeo Babe & fantasy art

[Joachim]

Hey guys, as always, long time no see :)
Anyway, i thought I could post some new pictures.
1.the Rodeo Babe is for a company called Qvisten Animation...it's an illustration they wanted for their 10th year anniversary. I hope you like it, it took about 4 hours with intesive painting but I had fun.
http://www.joachimart.com/images/c_i_qvisten-14_l.jpg

And here are 3 illustrations for Paizo Publishing. Maybe not totally new, but I havent posted them anywere, so I thought I could do that.

http://www.joachimart.com/images/c_i_paizo-13.jpg

http://www.joachimart.com/images/c_i_paizo-12.jpg

http://www.joachimart.com/images/c_i_paizo-11_l.jpg

[DSillustration]

i really like the first one.
i cant believe that only took 4 hours!
you truly captured that gil elvgren look...
the color selction and the white background help achieve that classic look.
the belt buckle is cool, but the silver gets lost a little. perhaps gold?
great job.

[Blitz]

Always a pleasure to see your art man.
Reminds me of the old sijun days.

Now
Did the dragon just spit out a humain hairball type thing? =P

[GK Smith]

Nice job. 4 hours, thats pretty crazy man. Busty females are always fun

[Gilead]

I really like the motion in the first one.
The other figures are rather stiff.

[Elwell]

That first one is really great, except for the way her braid lines up with the bull's hindquarters and passes right through her elbow. It flattens the space and stops the action.

[Aly Fell]

You didn't say it only took four hours over on t'other site! She's great, as DS says, very Elvgren.The others are like... wow... as well, but I love the Kali/Siva pic! :D

[glikster]

but I love the Kali/Siva pic! :D....ditto! They all rock, but that last one is very intense and cool.

[Joachim]

Hey thanks for the feedback and positive comments !

DSillustration, thanks mate. Well, 4 hours then I'm not counting the initial pencil sketch which i delivered first, so make it 5 ;) Well, I'm not proud of those times I have to rush things to this extent, but I think that week was one the most intensive weeks I can remember in my carreer, and I've never painted and drawn that amount of work in on week in my life, I think :D...

Blitz, thanks, yeah long time since I posted there. Still check spooges speed-paintings though ;) Well, human hair ball, beats me, I never read the story, just follow the description for my work. And, a ball of dead people and bones etc were suppose to fly in front of a huge dragon with a wall behind...so that was what I painted ;)

GK Smith, thanks, yeah when having such tight deadlines, busty females aren't the worst thing to paint, hehe.

Gilead, thanks. I wish you could elaborate on that. The dragon, I don't really see what is so stiff about it...is it? The girl with sword is just partly posing so I can agree and it wouldn't hurt with some more movement, the stone dude beside her yes he should obviously be stiff which he is suppose to. The black shiva, well she isn't even organic, but I feel that the other two character running away have a pretty natural pose in that situation so most of these wouldn't really fit super springy pose so it would be nice if you could explain a bit closer...I may sound a bit harsh in my answer, but I don't really care for such comments which just generalize all my hard work with one negative phrase, without even taking the time to explain why you write it...that's hardly any constructive in my opnion... (and this is not because I can't take criticism, because I can)

Elwell, thanks ! Yes good point, wish it wasn't printed allready I would have liked to fix that.

Ismail, hey thanks man. Sorry don't think I have a process of these, atleast the girl is just painted straight on 1 layer, and I never saved more than 1 file ;)

Poshspice, thanks ! again ;) Nice to get som positive feedback about the others, you are the first... It was a lot of work, since I had to make quite many and had to try holding the time as they were smaller prints inside Dungeon Magazine...but still I want to put some effort into them and paint them as paintings, because fantasy paintings is not something i've done a LOT of, I think it's fun it hard because there's so many weird ideas...So, I wan't to get better in that category but still find time between my other work to do it.

glikster, thank you ! It was a cool idea to try to visualize as well :) I'm glad you like it.Sadly about the shiva I'm more happy with the sketch, some of the noisy fog and particles disappeared when I cleaned it up, and they worked well to illustrate the fact that she is braking through the wall.

thanks again you all :) !

[swampbug]

Joachim I love the Katamari ball of death pic!

:)