[Joachim]

This is my latest picture, made as a tutorial image for Oscar Alexanders "Digital Artists Resources" page.
Alex asked me to do some kind of exaggerated anatomy the way "I like to do it", so the reason why I did a super hero is NOT because I was inspired from another picture or something like that, but because I've always liked Captain America and thought that some sort of "old fashion" propaganda picture with him would be fun to do . The image was originally painted in 3700*5348 pixels in phshop.
Since I'm from Norway, it would have probably been more suitable with Captain Norway, but unfortunately he doesn't exists



Anyway, I hope you'll like it !



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[micke]

Nice! Don't touch it any more now.
It's good enough. Do a captain Norway too, heh!

Fy faen, jokke!
M� bli ferdig med min ogs�!


-Micke

[fragamite]

captain norge -LOL! I see before my eyes Vegaard Ulwang with frozen drool in his beard and a tight skiing suit fully equipped with a cape and small wings on his hat. :P

*ehem.
post a link to the tutorial. I like this pic alot. big feet small head, recipe for a superhero. (and ofcourse the effect of the frog perspective here)

[Frost]

Nice work Joachim! How would you feel about sharing the high-res version for a look? =)

frost.

[Mongoose]

Holy Shit.

[Ko]

Flehh!... drool!

That's awesome... m'kay!
I'd love to see the high-rez...

...and a link to the tutorial?

Ko

[napalm]

Woo! Thats one of the coolest stylized renditions of Cap I've ever seen! Make sure you post the URL to that tutorial when its online! Great work man, i love the light - especially the great shield shadow.

-napalm (cia productions)
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[Loki]

I vote this in our forum-gallery ... it's freakin' awesome!!!!!!

[sizko.jr]

DAMN!! awesome dude! nice :eeK:

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[Guy]

Sh!t that is damn good Joachim. i love the light that comes in from the top right and the shading on the guy is awsome, but may i point out something. it bugs me a bit. his right foot should have some more shading under it. it will just make it look more like his foot is on the ground. sorry to point that out. but damn that is a very good drawing

[ArtKeo]

Whoa, that looks awesome. You did it all in Photoshop? It looks like the flag at the background has the airbrush effect and Cap has an acrylic water base feel to it. Still, very good!


Keep it up!

[Oscar Alexander]

Really neat pic Joah, I can't thank you enough for your effort! Anyway, I'll fix the tutorial as soon as Joachim has finished it... You can find it at the Tutorials section of the Digital Artist's Resource next week...

Please keep in mind, we're working REALLY hard on this site since it's still under heavy construction.

Oscar Alexander | The Digital Artist's Resource

[Joachim]

Wheeeey, so much nice feedback. I'm blushing!

Also, Guy, I agree that I could put a bit more shadow below the right foot.
The background looks more airbrushed, that I can understand. The reason why...-I did make a 3d object of a flag, and then heavily retouched it in phshop. But I didn't have the patient to make it more in a "rough" style as the captain himself. Actually, I also wanted to keep the flag this way to give a bit more depth into the picture. But, I guess I will write about all this in the "work in progress" tutorial for Alex's page.

Joachim


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[immi]

Yeah, I second Loki's vote, although I'd have to say, it's DAMN freakin awesome. For the guys who are unaware of the digital artists resource address, here it is: http://www.dualhead.com/dar/

Theres some good content in there, courtesy of ma main main Oscar.



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[[Shizo]]

Hmmm when the picture started loading from top i was gonna say "yay nice clean picture there!" and when it went to the hammer-and-sickle part i went "WTF! die die die you s.o.a.b."

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[Binke]

Holy crap!
That is like sooo amazing Joachim! Damn you norweigans...
The pic is like ultra clean! How long did it take you to do?

You gotta show us the full res version!
And aaghh, finish that tutorial fast please

[Pigeon]

VERY nice pic. It has a very 40s/50s propaganda poster look to it. The period quality warrants the hammer and sickle at the bottom, but I agree with Shizo that it is a little handed in this day. But as I said, it's a period piece, so the hammer/sickle would represent Communism rather then specifically Russia. (not that communism doesn't have its good points (in theory)).

[Joachim]

Plz, Shizo don't misunderstand !!!
It's not like I hate Russia.

The reason why I did it like this is...-I wanted it to look like an old propaganda poster from the 50's...you know the Cold War with USA vs. Soviet. And since I made Captain America, it just made sense to do it this way. But, I'm from Norway, so I live closer to Russia myself. But, if you have ever seen the propaganda posters from the 50's, even commersial posters had a hidden message .
So, don't go nuts....The war is over, and this is just a joke !

joachim



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[Darkmoon]

ahhh, comics woo...

this is NICE i love it, i would have liked to see more of cap's sheild tho, since its his symbol and all. i love the boots, best thing on the picture is the boots!

and the red skull is russian so uhm yeah thats why there is him alway against russians...



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[Affected]

I think what I like most is the way you've pulled off a very subtle tonal trick in the areas where the shield casts a shadow, especially the boot: The flag environment casts a slight blue tint over it. Beautiful.

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