Sijun Forums :: View topic - Introduction post. Some paintings and stuff.

GardenGnome · Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2003 11:29 am

This is my first post after a long time lurking these forums. I'm not to great at digital painting yet, but fare well in acrylic paints. I would like all the critiques you can muster. So here you go.

These are photographs of the actual works and I don't know how to work my camera's light features yet.

This one was done in pencil. Nothing spectacular, just a dragon.
Original is 18x24
http://home.att.net/~noldhaus/dragon.jpg

This guy was a sketch done by pencil in my sketch book. 8.5xll
http://home.att.net/~noldhaus/horny.jpg

Acrylic painting. I was aiming for a Japanese look with all the black. 22x24
http://home.att.net/~noldhaus/falls.jpg

A head I was asked to draw to find my drawing level in some art courses.
It's a Pawnee Indian, mean mother fuckers. 18x24
http://home.att.net/~noldhaus/indian.jpg

This is a still life from a helm I made out of clay. It's done in designe markers.
If anybody cares and my image hosting friend alows it, I'll post a pic of the helm. 18x24
http://home.att.net/~noldhaus/helm.jpg

Sample of my Native American art done in acrylics. This is the stuff that I make money off of. If you live in Oklahoma you should no why. 22x24
http://home.att.net/~noldhaus/war_singer.jpg

Pencil drawing of some Allied soldiers inspired by the move "Saving Private Ryan".
This one made my grandpa cry. 18x24
http://home.att.net/~noldhaus/ww2_guys.jpg

Dark forest acrylic painting inspired by "Magic the Gathering" artists. 22x24
http://home.att.net/~noldhaus/lost.jpg

And that's all for now folks. My lack of photography skills has really reduced the quality of these works*, but it's the best I could pull off. Once again I would like any critiques or tips.

* ie: the WW2 soldiers are kinda distorted by a few bends in the paper and others are kind of blurry.

Kamal · member Member # Joined: 21 Nov 2001 Posts: 143

Some of these are really beautiful. Especially "Falls" It's my favorite.
My least favorites are dragon, helm and lost. But the rest are pretty tight.

My feedback with dragon is that you should add more tonal difference between the dragon and the background to set them appart. Currently they both have to similar of a contrast and tonal range. Also, you might want to think of scanning him in and adding color. Here's an example of what took me 5 minutes:

egerie · Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2003 6:56 am

You have an ENORMOUS potential ! Keep at it and I'm convinced we'll see a lot more of your work a bit everywhere on the net.
The waterfall is also my favorite.

merlyns · Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2003 7:19 am

clean and very nice. pure eyecandy.

-david
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GardenGnome · Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2003 9:02 am

Thanks guys.

Mon · Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2003 9:13 am

Great job on the waterfall! Welcome aboard! Very Happy

Cheers,
Mon
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