Portraits *UPDATED May 10* (nudity)

[Mon]

My two latest personal pieces. Been doing way too much work stuff lately, felt good to get some kind of release with these pictures! Hope you like them.

EDIT:

Two new ones, a sitting nude and some kind of (self?)portrait.

[Il cattivo]

Amazing Snygg, think it's one of your best pieces so far!

[hurricane]

great paints!!
lovely work!

cheers

[jintz]

The blonde is awesome! :D

[Ashrumm]

beautiful my friend, beautiful!!

[komik[S]]

Very good portraits. :)

[Loga4]

Excellent job!

[Zaknafain]

nice! I like both a lot...
may I ask how you got that texture? Is it simply a texture overlay or did you paint with special brushes?

[jezelf]

fantastic. great work!

[Aly Fell]

Gorgeous!

[Call0ps]

great portraits!!! 5*

[Carnifex]

heyy nice to have you around again,gorgeous portraits.
ge oss mera :)

[Wasker]

Beautiful work, Mon. Are these done digitally or with real life oils?

[masque]

entrancing, especially the asian woman's eyes, hard to turn away from them.

[Summer Pudding]

quality

[sve]

I think they are technically beautiful and not deep psychologically... Just some pretty young women, I have no idea about their individuality, because they are too general IMO.
brushwork is lovely though.

[I.was.ink]

Beautiful!
Photoshop or Painter? I honestly can't tell.
It looks ike Painter, but after seeing your tut on youtube, it could be anyone of them. :bounce:

[Jason Manley]

nice work....thnx for posting these.

[asoir]

ay ay ay!
incredible as expected mon!

[NathanLong]

Very nice. A little bit of a Robert McGinnis feel - which is a good thing.

[misael]

What is your medium. Love the contrast, colors and texture.

[AndyParkArt]

Very nice! I love the traditional paint feel. Nice job!

[James Kei]

yum.:perv:

[Living Rope]

good to have you back Mattias. You were missed.

[Kir Nuyts]

WOW! Im in awe! True stunning work! U are my n1

Greetz and respect,
Kir

[DSillustration]

these are really wonderful!
i'd love to see some progress shots if you had them.

[stevethomas]

Yeah, what they said (x10).

[SummoniX]

Nice!

i just finished drawing a portret a while ago and i was thinking i was getting better ...
now im looking at those and thinking - shit, ive got so much to learn!

love these pieces
post more

[StealthNachos]

Very nice looking. I can't think of any critiques, very nice technique.

[mikehan!]

Very cool pieces

[Mitchell]

Amazing portraits! really great stuff mon. I always love the tuts you do, it'd be great to see one for something like this.

[Dile_]

Wow snygg, these two are gorgeous!

[liquidwerx]

Loverly work.

[duddlebug]

very very groovy....

I really like the light cast on the second one.

[aksomo]

Awesome stuff, great work!!!!!!!!!!

[ICH]

Amazing paintings!

[koroko]

Those are beautifull paintings Matt, dig the brushstrokes and colorpalette on both pieces.

[quimgene]

Really love the feel of the paintings... really beautiful ^^

[vigostar]

Man I cannot take my eyes off the second one.. Very well done... Congrats on these...

[daveneale]

wow...amazing work....I checked out your site last night and you have so many awsome pieces...also love the tutes-really inspirational (I just did a lovely B'day card for my Dad that was massivly inspired by the tutes:))

[Mon]

Cheers you guys!

The brushes used here are all out-of-the-box from Painter IX, and with some additional detail work in Photoshop. I don't innovate much when it comes to brushes :) No texture overlays for these.

I actually tried to keep the usual brushwork-indulgence to a minimum here so they wouldn't get in the way of the subject, will probably try and go the other way next time round!

Glad you guys are liking the tutorials as well :)

Thanks

[undergroundsean]

oh my dear god !! that is so beautiful !!!!!!

[dkounios]

hot! great work!

[MeTaL-Mike]

Wow. Very nice work man. Awesome brush strokes

[thenass]

Totally loving these. Very nice work

[Neneuche]

Very Beautiful and sensitive.
Me likes!

[Kan Muftić]

Wonderfull Mattias, totally different from the other stuff i've seen from you.
Finally, it's not all about lasers, swords and phuckin fairies, right?
Cheers,

[Sammy]

--- lovely, so much confidence in those strokes

[m@.]

Awesome! the blonde is fabulous, great color expression and compo.

[Paul A. Willemse]

Whow... gorgeous!

And the paintings aren't too bad either :wink:

[Bomba]

Gah...wonderful. One thing that always stood out about your work is the ability to make colors vibrate. All most impressionistic on a micro scale.
-J-

[blacky]

Reallly nice, specially first one. like the brushwork and mood.

[Derek Gores]

Great feel -- you don't let yourself be run by the computer...
Thanks!
www.derekgores.com

[monsi]

wow, beautiful work :]

[Orozc0]

Oh my...

[Cloister]

Hi there! First time I see that mon-avatar since I first set foot in this forum...

I like the second one a lot more. The technique is flawless, as always, in both of them. But the first one reminds me too much of those sleezy covers on pulp romance books (written for bored uneducated single mothers) that you come across in konsum-affärer.... ;), only the muscular guy is cropped out of it... (something about the colour and the pose...)

Anyhow, I hope all is well.

/Cheers! (I finally have a broadband connection... yes, once more I'm a contemporary citizen... and a new gallery for fantasy-stuff at deviant... which hopefully will fill up with some more serious stuff in the year to come.)

[light]

Mind -> Boggled
Folder with your name -> Created.
This and the stuff on your site is really great. Nothing more to say really.

[Mon]

Wow lots of nice comments here :D Thanks a lot guys.

Khan, I'm with you on that one!

Niklas, i hear ya, someone pointed that out to me before as well. What can I say, I'm a sleazy romantic :) Good to hear you're back online! Doing any freelance these days? Take care man.

[3nasty]

wow beautiful work and beautiful womens :B

[stalsby]

really nice work! very traditional look! I love them! Your website kicks ass too!

[Mon]

Updated this thread with two new pieces, hope you'll like them :)

[asoir]

if i could make love to a thread...

[Carnifex]

nice! love the selfportrait.

[Chandan]

Brilliant! Everything works together so well!

[Kan Muftić]

now, i hate myself for being one of those typical fans that go:
"you rock", "wow, dude" or "fuck" but i have to say:
FUCK, YOU ROCK DUDE!

Forgive me that, Mattias...

Best regards,

[Konstruktion]

Man you're name suit your style perfect... "Mattias".... hihi no Snygg. Awesome work! Keep it up.. keep it friggin up

[Kir Nuyts]

Wow one of the best threads ever... Speachless...

[Blue]

Oh wow... and your site has video tutorials. Awesome, just awesome.

[blog]

too good is the way to describe it, I can't appreciate your art truly cuz I'm nowhere near your level of understanding, I'm just simply and utterly amazed :dad:

[Moai]

All of these portraits are masterful, but that one with the skull head is just something else. Excellent work, man.

[AmadorL]

you are freaking sick! get help!

[jtbott]

very nice work...I esp like the "self portrait"

[MarkBehm]

Great stuff as usual. I dig the new ones. I always love your dynamic, rhythmic brushwork. Makes me think of Richard Schmid. I love how it sneaks out to sculpt a form here and there like a sculptor's rake. I see what looks like a flat brush a lot in your work (meaning like a traditional flat). How are you controlling the angle? Are you actually tilting your pen or do u have one of those fancy 6d art pens. Or is that in PS? Thanks for posting.

[boredomsketch]

Fantastic!
My favorite is the one with the woman looking at the wall with the "pre historic" figures. Just beautiful!
I would like to see some work in progress if possible.
:)

[stalsby]

The updates are really nice!! keep em coming!

[Victor B]

fantastic updates to an already outstanding thread, the self portrait and sitting nude are amazing! thanks for posting

[quickreaver]

"Hope you LIKE 'em??" There is no like, only LOVE. What medium? And please don't say 'happy'....

[Mon]

Thanks for your comments, everyone!

abo, you're right, I use lots of flat brushes in Painter with stylus tilt controlling the angle. Never got that 6d art pen working properly (have one at work), and the sucker doesn't have any buttons on it! Don't know what they were thinking there..

JoaoCaetano, sure thing:

http://img337.imageshack.us/img337/4549/elinsit1ph8.jpg

This was pretty early on before i knew what to with this piece. I actually considered going craig mullins baroque before i settled for Jeff Jones primitivism :)

dream_sear, That's Painter IX and some photoshop

Cheers :)

[Ralph horsley]

Hi Mattias,

Great to see these new pieces. Your work just seems to get stronger and stronger.

I just love the variety of marks and approaches you seem to bring to your painting. Some of the nuance in there is gorgeous.

It is always a pleasure to see.

cheers,

Ralph
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[Reed Davis]

stuff looks great, I really like the style!

[Mr.Blonde]

holy shit man, these are some beautiful paintings. You've done a great job of keeping the painting fresh from sketch to finish... that is not an easy task.. thank you very much for posting them, and i am really glad to see the work in progress.

I fucking love the drapery, there are so many nice shapes there... nothin but love here. I'd love to see more!

[ayoli]

And please, dont stop posting !

[IReneYchan]

Hi, I am new here!
I really really love your indulgence brushwork. I usually like to keep brushwork on my traditional painting too. next time I will try that on my digital painting as well.^^

[zweiDee]

love your art, so nice nude girls. *****

[E.Denis]

Really! These parts are beautiful


www.denis-art.com

[Capprotti]

Damn man. Each one more impressive than the last.

[JOTAPEGE]

Beautiful work, Mon. Like too much your painterly finish. What is your average canvas size for digital paintings, please?

[blaschke]

awesome stuff!

[Riddick]

Very wonderful portrait , and also nice touche as the others said.
I really appreciate this painter rendering, there is too much CG rendering everywhere.
Here it looks like oil or pastel. That is a lovely work!
Waiting for the next pictures!

[scarlettvice]

NIce! Great control of the light.

[Eveningkiss]

um if that last one is a self portrait can i.... um.... *whistles* never mind! love it.

[Coinpurse]

Nice! loving the sitting woman in particular.
Thanks for sharing ;)

[Quinster]

These pictures are great! I love how life-like they all look, like they're going to move. :teeth:

[Feerik]

WOW congrats dude, you have all my respect, you really progressed these last months, you technique is fantastic :)

F

[Chermilla]

Beautiful portraits. I love the lightness of the strokes used and the colours sit so well together, they have an almost dreamlike quality to them as does most of your work I've seen so far. Your personal work is so different to the stuff you do for work, i really like it!

Keep posting when you get the chance!! :)

Cx

[pxm]

good brush work!

[ozan]

M. Thanks for a little inspiration. Nice stuff. The nude is my favorite of the group. To me it feels like it has a little more subject matter than the others.

Peace,
Ted

[the black frog]

Good stuff indeed! The blonde takes the cake.

[bharat]

it's ammezing stuff, i m very impress with this job

[Lunatique]

Love the first one--the colors and the composition reminds of classic American illustrators from the 50's.

the last one--I know what you're trying to do with the off-balance composition, but I'm not sure if it works. Sometimes a standard center composition simply works because it's so iconic and forceful?

[twisteums]

Great skill. I love your brushstrokes.
hope to see more.

[designboot]

first portrait looks amazing!

[Calis]

thats some pretty awsome work you got there
i think my favorite is the first one, thats absolutely beatiful

[MrozekArt]

Hey Mattias!

Great images here, your self portrait looks totally awesome...congrats!

[LINRAN]

Your works are absolutely splendid!!

[liangwei]

Very nice painting skill. i love it!

[albert86]

I clicked because I love nudity and I wasn’t disappointed

[dorian]

sweeeeet!

[Pavel Sokov]

Ridiculous talent!
I am just wondering, is it intetional that the asian looking girl's eyes are not symmetricaly placed?