Alchemy, myth and history...

[AleksandarMijajlovic]

Hi,

I'm new here, and this is my very first post.

I'm waiting for comments! You don't have to pretend that you are gentle...

http://http://img451.imageshack.us/img451/7465/mirrorcopy2ob.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

http://http://img26.imageshack.us/img26/1479/odin6copy5fw.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

http://http://img26.imageshack.us/img26/9430/cardusancopy9et.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[Denart]

dont be gentle? hehee

The 2nd one is too much "John Howe" ish

;)

[bluephoenix]

what an absolutely rediculous reply Denart......
Mate, you keep up the good work and if John Howe is an influence, it didn't force itself upon me. I see influences coming out of 70% of the artists on this forum.
You'll have to get used to the 'less than constructive' criticism from some of the people here.

Keep paintin' Blue.

[DV8]

that first one is a freaky looking dude... is that a mask he is wearing? that stare...I think I will pee myself.


thanks for sharing

[poise]

John Howe is Awesome!!
hey Alek( your name is too long to type haha)
You have a good eye for compostion, and it seems you are working on your values.
I feel you can pay more attention to design and shape. Go to the The Conan thread in Finally finished, and look at Greg Manchess's shapes and design, you can learn a lot from just looking.
One good thing to remember with design is to play curves off of straights. especially in the Branches in your second painting.
Also with your second painting you show the same level of detail in the background as well as the foreground. Even though you are pushing the background back with value you are defeating the purpose by adding lots of detail in the trunk and branches.
To also make this painting more effective it is good to have an object be part of the middle ground to push the depth.
You show these thing in the third drawing, even though you could have tamed down the detail on the wall a bit. But none the less you are showing the idea. I see you pushing your value more. Really dark object in the foreground and really light objects in the background, and everything inbetween. :)
Hope this helped.
just keep going dude! good job so far, :)

[bluephoenix]

ps, yep! John Howe is awesome!!!!!!
Blue.xxx

[dogfood]

These are really nice. The perspective in the last one is really struggling against itself, though. The flagstones don't appear to get smaller as they recede and the wastepaper basket doesn't seem to match the floor (the most immediate comparison).

The first is especially well done.

[adamorjames]

The pencil is my favorite and the one in the middle has something wrong with it, maybe the dirt the wizrd is standing on should be more detailed....the first one is okay except the face is structured ackwardly, like it is too rigid.

[AleksandarMijajlovic]

Denart – well it is… John is the only illustrator that I know of that would help anytime. He will answer the same day you ask him for help. He was the one who gave me the idea, two years ago; of doing things I’m doing now. How many times I have tried just to copy his paintings… So it’s naturally, I guess…

DV8 – then my job is done :confident .

POISE – thanks for good critics. I will pay attention (actually I’m paying it right now…) next time.

DOGFOOD – thank you. Wastepaper basket? No, no… It’s for fire. There are three legs it stands on. Maybe it’s not logic to place maps near, but we can assume that it’s summer outside…

ADAMORJAMES – he wears mask on his face, so…

[dogfood]

No, I'm sorry to seem so flippant, it's just that I imagined he'd just tossed some paper toward the brazier, but it missed and now he has to get up and get it.

I forgot to mention how much I like the composition on this one, how we enter through the stairway, sweep around the foreground elements, then head out the way the sword is pointing. Sweet.

[biscuitninja]

With that mask, i don't want to know what he's thinking.
Looks very good, the third reminds me of something I might find in a ancient parchment....
-bix