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Samuel Araya 2001-08-18 Holy crap from hell! Im drooling! impressive/massive detail! outstanding work Christiaan!   (christiaan iken) thanks samuel, unfortunately u cant see the picture properly cause its too small, ill add a detailed version of this pic i guess. Maria Fransisca 2001-08-18 Amazing work! The amount of details, my word, I am enormously impressed! What a beautiful artwork :).   (christiaan iken) thank you maria, its just a shame that epiluge doesnt submit the artwork on a larger scale, its hard to see anyting in these scans. Malachi Maloney 2001-08-18 Very nice.   yifat shaik 2001-08-18 really amazing...   Katy Rewston 2001-08-18 chris how do you do it? all those little figures, it must have taken ages. i wish i could paint like you can.great work as usual   (christiaan iken) thanks katy, elfwood will let me upload a larger version of this, where u can really see more of the figures which kind of look like blobs in this. xxxxx xxxxx 2001-08-18 *lol* I know what you mean with "before the film comes out and its amazing imagery corrupts us all"...a friend of mine is so much in fear that he decided to illustrate the entire Lord of the Rings saga, well I doubt such an enterprise can be achieved before the movie release... Anyhow, I don`t think your imagination will suffer from the movies, on the contrary it`s your personal interpretation and imagination which is strong enough to influence others I think! Once more you strike us with amazing detail, and unlike some people who can be glad the small image size conceals a bit of their crapiness (but yammer about loosing detail the loudest pretty often :D) your artworks really suffer from the 550 pixel restriction. I can`t wait to see the highres version of this masterpiece! Is this on A2 btw?   (christiaan iken) heheh, oooooookay. ya this picture does suffer cause u cant see any of the small faces in the crowd. its a a1 peice of watercolour paper with the sides trimmed down. i wanted a cinematic painting hence the weird shape, but its larger than my normal newer stuff so more detail.and more crampingin the fingers. Martin Gruelle 2001-08-18 Very nice, a lot of detail, I like your sense of light   (christiaan iken) thanks, the reason i have lava is becauuse i really wanted a night scene and i really love the contrast of red and blue. Marie Lu 2001-08-18 O____O This is so amazing! I wish I could work as well with traditional media like that...*sigh* I'm holding my breath waiting for the movie. :) But I don't know; I think you could have illustrated a lovely LotR movie by yourself. ^___^ Excellent painting, I'd love to see a bigger version of this one.   (christiaan iken) tank marie, ive done a few lord ofthe rings illustrations in my foundation course in art school, but thisi s the latest one,. thers a bigger version going to be updatred in elfwood, size wise but elfwoods down again now. Dean Bloomfield 2001-08-20 You gotta know that i think that this is awesome....Damn! It is really awesome. How long did it take, Christiaan?   (christiaan iken) thanks dean, this one took me five days to paint from start to finish. and my hand got crapmed cause of the little brush i was using Linda Bergkvist 2001-08-22 Waaah! *wail*   (christiaan iken) thanks, i think linda. J.P. Targete 2001-09-11 Chris all I can say man ...wicked piece..amazing work.   (christiaan iken) comming from u thats a pretty nice compliment. jean pierre targete. see i got ur name right. Christy Babrick 2001-09-15 This is fantastic, your patiece at depicting so much fine detail really paid off, it truly is a very rich and beautiful painting.   (christiaan iken) thanks christy, seeing how i seem to be slowing down, im amased i managed to paint this in a week, i seem to have more trouble these days will less detailed peices as detail has never beeen aproblem for me, where as getting the whole painting to work as one has. Xavian Arcana 2001-11-08 Love it. Truly impressive Christiaan, absolutely wonderful detail and atmosphere to it, I do believe this is one of my favorite pieces by you, keep up the good work mein freund.   (christiaan iken) cheers ,this was my first lord of the rings picture. actually was going to do some more cyberpunk images but i liked doing it so much i decided to make a calender. Janne Vuollet 2001-12-10 A1 huh? Lots of patience you have... Mmmm. There sure is a lot of warriors there 8) Kinda reminds me of quake III somehow. Yep, I don't like the way epilogue resizes the pictures so small 8( Is there a bigger and more detailed version available anywhere?   (christiaan iken) there is on elfwood or on my home page, and ya i hate resizing too. Annah Hutchings 2002-01-10 *is awe-struck* Um...i have no words to say about this that have not probably been said before... *sobs* so good...just amazing...you captured the scene perfectly! :D   Xu Fifi 2002-03-13 Crazy!!! Holy cow!!!! What detail!!!! You'll be my next favorite fantasy artist!!!!!   Denny Ho 2003-01-08 wow, you made Helm's deep look more grand! AWSOME background. i am in utter awe...   Marley Mcleay 2003-01-12 you have an awesome sense of scale,i love how helms deep is so beautifully detailed.fantastic.   Uwe Jarling 2004-07-16 hi christiaan - could anyone tell me why i never commented on my favourite piece - so here it goes - christiaan, i really don´t know how one can produce such a piece of art, it must have taken ages to finish it - this is more than excellent, and i don´t have the words to describe what i feel when i look at it - just, thank you so much for creating such an outstanding piece of fantasy art - if you have prints of it to sell, pleeeeeze let me know - i want one!!!!!!! again - thanks for creating this masterpiece!   Post a Comment