The Wrath of the Editor

[Ravi Pacnis]

The artist's mindscape is a vast limbo where muffins run amok and your creative ego rules over the puny self. This creative ego, called the Editor, is a cold blooded, iron clawed, 100% cotton hooded dragon. It is ruthless and efficient. It is what drives the artist onward, whether he likes it or not.

At long last, I’m calling this one finished, else I’ll go nuts.

The idea for this one popped up years ago as a pencil sketch. Then some years later than that, I thought it would be a good one to render for CG network’s master and servant challenge. Back then I was fresh with digital painting, so I screwed up and couldn’t even complete a bad rendering. As that pissed me off to no end, some time later, after I got a little proficient with the tools, I started from scratched. But I’ve never been able to get the look I wanted (because the training tutorials I was able to find were mostly oriented for concept art or realistic looks, so I wavered). I wanted a somewhat cartoony look. After completing 75% of the job, becoming disgusted with my own inability to make it the way I wanted it to look, I left it again (Actually I left digital painting for fun altogether until a couple of months ago).

As my technique changed a lot, it was a little awkward to finish up this final 25% part as I struggled to mesh new job with the older techniques I somewhat forgotten. So the finished thing looks weird to me now and not really what I wanted it to look like, but I will call it done for my own sake.

C&C welcome!

[edalva006@yahoo.com]

there is so much to relate to i feel your pain

[Elwell]

The blur on the cupcake in the lower right corner seems out of place, since you don't have any other DOF effects in the piece.

[Ravi Pacnis]

actually there are other such effects but they are faint and only in faraway objects. I wanted some element to give more depth to the comp. put that cake in and out, tried blurred and not. In the end this looked the best to me. Could have been better? definitely. but I think probably it would have to be something other than more DOF effects. but this is the most I could handle for now it seems. i might pull the trick hopefully next time

[Seraphim Collective]

I feel, regardless of how you wanted this to turn out, you went through a long process and nailed it! It looks really nice and had me actually going over it more than once. I look at all types of artwork everyday to get inspiration, and this one caught my eye especially since there was a story behind it. I speed through a lot of work even some of the great ones, and I paused when I saw this. Great work! I don't see much to criticize.

[Ravi Pacnis]

Thank you so much, your comments are really heartening, I know the technique is far from perfect but someone actually appreciating the story meant a lot to me

[Rayph]

Excellent peice overall. I agree with the comments already made, the biggest gripe I have is certainly the cupcake in the lower right. The blur does indeed look quite odd to me as well.
Overall though I love this peice, lots of mood and story behind it. Great job!