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Steve Ferris 2002-08-29 Excellent Job on the layout here. My Fav of your gallery! :)   Patrick McEvoy 2002-08-29 Wonderful stuff - has a great, "classic" look too it. I love the flow and rhythm of the hair and robes.   Lipták László 2002-08-31 Awesome pic! As usual:)   Lennys Esther Barboza Esis 2002-09-11 The color work is incredible, specially the skin!!!   (April Lee) Thank you. I'm actually pretty weak with stuff like background elements and landscape. Even drapery (the clothes) can be a pain to do. But I do enjoy the human figure, so I love spending most of my time rendering that. Getting a smoothly blended skin-tone is definitely not easy. Well, digitally, it's a bit easier than paint, anyway! But even in paint and pencils, there are ways to go about doing it... Tom Lavelle 2002-09-30 This is GREAT !!How long does it take you to do something like this...   (April Lee) The sketch took a long time--mostly because I tried to research two-handed sword stances and had to get everything approved by both art director and marketing (and ended up not using a really authentic sword pose because of that). That took days! Then I trasferred the sketch to a large illustration board and cleaned up the sketch, which took...maybe a day. I use an airbrush, so base-painting is pretty quick. I only cut frisket for about 4 colors: blue sky, green clothing, skin, the black/grey for hair and mountains. That went pretty quickly, maybe 3 or 4 hours (mostly waiting for paint to dry). Putting in shadows and highlights (mostly with an eraser and colored pencils) maybe 4 or 5 hours. Details and painting, maybe 4 or 5 hours. So painting only takes about 3 or 4 days solid. I have a full-time job as a computer game artist, so all this work was spread out after work and on weekends, so it was spread over many more days. Several weeks, probably. Post a Comment