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[Arwar]

hey guys, here's some stuff I've done lately. I havent done much digital work in a while, i tend to use traditional media a lot more in college. so i'm trying to get back into the swing of a wacom. I posted this one eatpoo so sorry if you've seen it before

quick one...been trying to loosen up
http://www.jenecio.com/images/womanbrown.jpg

http://www.jenecio.com/images/warmth.jpg

close up
http://www.jenecio.com/images/warmthdetail.jpg

trying to loosen up some more
http://www.jenecio.com/images/pinky.jpg

a Gug from H.P. Lovecraft's dream cycles
http://www.jenecio.com/images/gug3.jpg

lots of experimenting on this one
http://www.jenecio.com/images/lollipop.jpg

Might as well post this, this is an oil painting 18 x 24
http://www.jenecio.com/images/ghoul.jpg

close up
http://www.jenecio.com/images/narrativemonsterdetail.jpg

I also completely redesigned my entire website. This is mostly the newer stuff on it. Lemme know what you guys think

thanks!

[Groover McNab]

Man, this is some great stuff. I love the way you handled the black lollipop. Nice touch with the halftone in the bg. I really like how painterly the last one is too. Just asspats all-around from this corner. :)

[e.j.roy]

Sick but brilliant. Love the lollipop one, don't know what I'd do if I came across this in life. Like the way u push your paint around.

[Elwell]

Massive coolness.

[Matt Dixon]

Brilliant. Great work on your site, too.

[ah.heng]

just like to mention that on your webpage, your art and sketches thumbs are all the way at the right, while every other page is aligned left, it's tiring to read,especially on a wide screen.

[Arwar]

thanks for the comments guys!

ah.heng - thanks for mentioning that. I've been messing around with alignment so they're all sort of temporarily set. I'll probably move those to the left

[Tyranx]

brilliant!

[photeck121]

Awsome dude! The second one rocks:)

[Fipse]

Me likey very much!

Nice stuff, nothing to crit here except that you don´t post enoug ;)

Fipse

[Geophillyx]

sick stuff, post more!

[mwillustration]

arwar,
these are all amazing!
i love the looseness of the first one, and the oil one is beautiful, i love the brush work.
my fave is the rubber room one-i love how the hands and feet on the girl get more purple-very nice touch

[Cthogua]

Nice work! I particularly like the first and last ones. The first one reminds me alot of Jeffery Jones' work, with the loose handling of the background and the sort of "spotlight effect" on the chest. The last one seems to have alot of Phile Hale....which IMHO is a good thing :-) It would be interesting to see you do more stuff with that dramatic, harsh lighting.

[vigostar]

Like a breath of fresh air...

[andie]

no critics from me. this is way cool. u've got amazing strokes on the canvas. very natural feel. awesome.

[voraz]

Realy cool!!

[strych9ine]

Beautiful work man.

[Jens]

hey arwar

love the two first ones

on the girl wih the lollipop i don't really like that red + green outline the girl seems to have. I don't like the way the halftone dots are so present, i think they flatten everything out instead of being in the background. Mayby it's because of the dark color. I adore her haircut, really cool :)

oil painting is great as well, love the simpel background.

btw, I added your link on my site a while ago, i hope you don't mind :D

[fedezz]

Totally awesome!
My favorite has to be the oil painting, Hale-ish mood! Post some more oils!

[Shelly Wan]

cool work! like the graphic style and the deep shadows! :blahblah:

[carakhan]

I definitely see the inspiration of Phil Hale in your oil painting, it's amazing. Great work!

[sone_one]

gorgeous stuff... the first and second to last one (the lollypop one) are pure sexiness on a canvas <3.

you improved a hell of a lot since your latest post here...amazing

[Gezstar]

hey arwar, wicked to see your art again. you're light years ahead of where you were man, super cool work. the black lollipop one is the bomb, though i must say i've seen a similar concept used in illustration (can't remember the name now).

[TheGnoll]

awesome stuff.The second one is really creepy.The gug is really suits the description.
They all look really lovely, very expressive and very distinctive style, wanna see more!

ciao

[Chuck,mate.]

man....those are insane!
disturbing, yeah, some. but your skills are fucking crazy.
just made yourslef a fan, buddy.
keep `em coming.
:)

[miljenko]

Picture number two with the woman in a nuthouse - man thats....thats chilling, disturbing, phew, gooseballs all the way. Dude, you have a serious gift to convey the real horror in these images. Hats off! And the girl suckin on a black lollipop - man, those eyes are EVIL, the way you do faces, dude, I'm speechless.

I just found this image on your website: http://www.jenecio.com/images/bathroom.jpg. It really scares the shit out of me, and turns my stomach on the side. You should join art department in making horror movies.

[Egets]

haha that is just so sick and weird hahaaaaaaaaa !! Fascinating

[daqu]

really cool...i can recognize your digitals from a mile away...i read that you go to MICA? how is it there?

[Arwar]

wow thanks a lot guys!

Cthogua - thanks man, i love those guys. I really enjoy painting that type of spot light lighting but i try not to overuse it. but...if you insist! hahah

Jens - thanks for the crit. I see what you mean about the halftones being too prominent. I could tone them down to a light brown or pink color? And thanks a lot for linking me. I'll link you up on my site too, you've got some awesome work on your site

Gezstar - thanks gez =) I think i know what you mean about seeing that concept before. At the time i painted it, it seemed completely original, but right now i feel as if I've seen something pretty similar.

miljenko - thanks a lot man! I should try painting happier things lol. But I'm super flattered that my darker stuff scares you. It's an awesome feeling when your work can emit some sort of emotion in someone =)

anyway, here's something new I just finished

It's a tree spirit known as a Batibat. They are described as huge fat women that live in trees, they're size can differ depending on the size of the tree. If their tree is cut, they will continue living in it. They can live in human houses that are built with its wood. At night they sit on top of the sleeping owners suffocating them to death. They also cause bad dreams. In this picture, she is being worshipped as a god by the Tahamaling, which are red colored forest spirits who protect the animals. Tahamaling are actually only female, but i added a male in their for fun...

http://www.jenecio.com/images/treespiritdone.jpg

lemme know if there's anything i can fix
thanks!

[Jens]

hey arwar

thanks a lot for adding me to your links!

I love the fat woman and again the haircut you gave her, gives a lot of personality. Also you got the overal mood of the forest, the way you handled the lightning. Mayby one thing the cast shadow of the tree branch above her head seems to be going at different direction than the shadow of the branch that's casting a shadow over her body/breast. I don't know, there's a good chance that I'm wrong about that :)

The couple on the right seem a bit stiff.

I wonder where you got that description of the god, i really liked reading it.


I read gezstars comment, the one I had to think of was this painting of Michael Hussar, still quite a bit different :) http://www.boncap.com/mag/selection/images/5797_w.gif

[Tigermilk]

brilliant and inspiring, just what i needed. The brush strokes are stunning, please post more!

tigermilk

[kalakal]

ive noticed you changed the pose of the couples on your site, its works great. that was the only crit from me. hardcore stuff, post some more

[Arwar]

thanks guys. I took what Jens said into consideration and fooled around with those two figures. They were sorta meant to be stiff, and their fingers were actually spread out, in a sort of outstretched stance, but since the hands and fingers were too small to see, their arms just ended up looking ridiculously straight for no reason.

here's where I'm at now. thanks a lot for the crits guys

http://www.jenecio.com/images/treespirit2.jpg

[deltron05]

Nice work......but ur so EVIL!!!!!!!

[Heysoos]

really nice stuff. /m\

[BlackMath]

Wow I can't get enough, do you have a sketchbook on CA? If not it would be a wish to start one.

[Arwar]

thanks again guys!

deltron05 - I'm actually a really nice guy :wink:

I finally made a splash page for my site. Lemme know what you guys think. I'd be very very willing to fix it up immediately if you guys have crits, I have no design abilities.

http://www.jenecio.com/newinterface/splash.jpg

[Tyranx]

pffft! no design ability my ass.

[DSillustration]

i loved this thread when you first made it...
but for some reason i didnt say it.
but this last update definetly demands a reply.
(your website is great too.)

[MoP]

Very cool splash page, love the sense of depth.
Your other artwork is also nicely done... interesting style. Keep it up!

[nofingers]

Awesome work. The asylum and lillipop ones are my favs.

[lewiston]

wicked. Thanks for that hammer on the head...

[Farn]

I fell in love with the mystiques behind your works. They have an outstanding story drive standing behind them. I'm glad that there are artists like you in this world.

About your skill and style I better not start to speak ;)

Thank you

[VashTheStampede]

OK, im in love. your rendering style is just top notch. (well i like it) i really really really dig the fully rendered stuff (like the skin) mixed with something of a flat color (the shirts) wow. someday, someday i can do that. (i hope!)

[Geophillyx]

excellent splash page, your website rocks!!

[Kenny_Callicutt]

i didnt bother reading your comment and thought at first it was all just oil and was thinking "this guy has some nice paint". Enjoy that splash page, has that clean vectorish feel juxtasposed with that feeling you get from paint. Oh and the one thats actually an oil painting is great too

[Norwar]

Brilliant! no critics, your art and website rocks!!!

[0shade0]

ah so stylish! :o

[flex mathews]

amazing work, i love the splash image.

[Shinryu]

great stuff man, just looked through your site, had seen bits and pieces before, excellent stuff

[shadoman]

Nice works man. You have a solid future ahead of you. I work real close to that school and really wish that I had of gone there...

[Tigermilk]

last one is gorgeous, did you use any refs?
you're 19 right?

you should open up a sketchbook in the sketchbook-session
well, either way, post more!

[strych9ine]

The splash page image is gorgeous, but I'm not feeling the big blocky lettering. Your image speaks volumes as it is, and I think some understated typography is the way to go. The vertical line on the left between the text and the illustration interrupted the flow I thought as well... here's what I mean. (Avenir is the font by the way...)

http://www.codytilson.com/9ine/jenecio-01.jpg
http://www.codytilson.com/9ine/jenecio-02.jpg

Just throwing it out there, you can throw it right back. :)

[mull77]

Superb stuff dude. That one in the forest is awesome.

I like how clean the final images are. I wish i had your patience.

[Staz Johnson]

I'm awestruck...the lighting on the figures on you website portal is exquisite.

[krakel]

wow insanity.. i love that stuff- especially the skintones

[Phuzion]

I agree about the big block letters. I think they look much better smaller. Great stuff man! I think that splash page image is my favorite one :P

[Summer Pudding]

There's some superb piccies here, and no mistake. I'm not easily disturbed, but some of these gave me genuine chills. The splash page image is first rate too. Lets see some more eh?

Pete

[nicolas]

tight!! all saved! very nice....

[adraude]

dang, your stuff is really tight. big thanks for sharing!

[Main Loop]

beauuuutiful

[Jens]

I agree with strych on the splash, i prefer his type over your's. In the school I'm in they care a lot about the integration of typography in illustration. I kinda suck at that too but I'm learning a lot from other students who do a lot better than me in that area (opposed to my technical drawing/painting skills being better). The thing to do is to incorporate typography as part of the illustration, not as something you add at the end of the drawing process. So when you start making thumbs add the place for text at the same time. You might want to design your illustration around your text or your text around your illustration or both equally important.

In strych's example the text is better, but it still looks added on the end. That's because the image wasn't designed with room for text in mind. In this case i think the illustration would look better on it's own.

A good example of text incorporation in illustration is ashley wood or james jean, and lots of french guys i can't remember the name of. I don't know a lot of them cause i've only just started to paying attention to it (and only in my school work really :))

just my 2 cents

[Elnady]

WOW
Awesome work man
Keep it that way :)

[Nixon]

awesome work, man! keep it coming!

[Lazy]

Never seen your art before but it is simply stunning, will defenatly keep on whatching you.
You have very warm earthly colors and original visions, exactly what i like.

[PeterLee]

I really like your painting style.