Nightmare Thing (disturbing image and 340kb)

[Paulo]

Guys,

This is Paulo from Brazil. I've been lurking for too long, I guess it's time to introduce myself.

I must say this place IS awesome. I owe you guys too much already :D !

This was made in Painter 7, finalized in Photoshop. Not exactky finished, but you get the general idea.

Freely conceived from the stuff of nightmares.

http://web.newsguy.com/carpen/images/rotten.jpg

Peace,

Paulo
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The Brazilian Bomber

[gekitsu]

hi paulo, glad to see you posting your stuff over here as well :)

nice image. it's that technique you had that alien challenge over at idd some long time ago, right?

in this case, i find the typograhic element a bit out of place. it would have been funny to have a combination of small-sized old style fonts in italic and normal, like in old scientific illustration books, maybe even along with a latin name telling the exact species of nightmare or sth. like that.

as for the subject itself: i would call the file size more disturbing than the image ;)
lots of the people here are drawing monsters, so we are used to those things :)

[Paulo]

Thank you for replying so fast, raphael.

I came to this place following your advertising, so thank you again! I think I was disturbed by my own painting more than anyone else will be (except for the file size ;)!

In the end I came to like the background more than the creature itself!

:p

Peace,

P

[blackhand]

Did you put some sort of liquid filter over the image in Photoshop? I'd like to see the original Painter work as that seems pretty strong--the weird liquid finish just detracts from the image and muddles the details of the form.

[Paulo]

Did you put some sort of liquid filter over the image in Photoshop? I'd like to see the original Painter work as that seems pretty strong--the weird liquid finish just detracts from the image and muddles the details of the form

Nope, no Photoshop filter here. The image is mostly as it left Painter. I added some shadows and higlights in Photoshop, that's all.

As raphael/gekitsu noticed, this is a technique I used before in an Alien Challenge. It involves mostly Painter's Liquid Metal layer. There are not real form details to get lost. The thing is really shapeless, asymmetric - almost liquid.

Cheers,

Paulo

[Android]

wow, this creature definately strikes s few of my archytpal fear chords, amazing work,
based on you image what the the one brush in painter you used the most.

_ANdrew

[Paulo]

Andrew,

Thank you for the primal fear words ;).

For the creature itself I used only the Liquid Metal Plugin layer (using a custom Pattern as Clone Source). The effects you can get using Liquid Metal and a funky Clone Source are amazing - and quick. It's so easy you'll feel like you're cheating :cool:.

The background took more time than the creature itself: I used a custom variation of the Square Pastel and a custom paper texture. Most of my favorite Painter brushes are customized things I developed along the years to fill my tastes and techniques. Painter is so vast it's almost dangerous :eek:.

You have the coolest place here. Keep up the excelent work, you and your pals :chug: .

Cheers,

Paulo