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Thank you so much to you all for your warm comments. Middle Earth is a daunting topic to work on for any illustrator (even though, at the same time, many of us hear its siren's call) because one ends in the same arena as some of the greatest masters in the genre.
In Thorin's style I can only bow and say 'at your service and your clan's'.
Echtalion, it is a digital piece, usually, once the sketch is defined and refined, I block in the colors (already with a base of mass and lightting) in Painter, and then go on with the refining in Photoshop. I find that the mimicking of traditional media of Painter (I usually go for artist's oils) helps to avoid the plastic-like feeling that is the curse of not few digital works.
Oh good lord, that's GORGEOUS! The way you do skin tone and texture is AMAZING. LOVE that BLUE.
You did the "Drunken Hallucinations" for Call of Cthulhu, didn't you? That was equally awesome (and delightfully strange). Did you get to draw any Lord of the Rings creatures?
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Yes, typic american work, i 'am sorry - it seems to be very far from Tolkiens world.
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alex.nem. said:
Yes, typic american work, i 'am sorry - it seems to be very far from Tolkiens world.
I'm sorry - are you J.R.R. himself? If not, keep comments like that to yourself or preface it with stuff like "imo just doesn't seem like ..."
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alex.nem. said:
Yes, typic american work, i 'am sorry - it seems to be very far from Tolkiens world.
I don't know what that means. Did you mean 1940's Britain? A collegiate setting? Should Thorin be wearing a tweed suit? Or do you mean to say that it is very far from Alan Lee and John Howe's idea of Tolkien's fictitious world?
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alex.nem. said:
Yes, typic american work, i 'am sorry - it seems to be very far from Tolkiens world.
You might wanna watch what you say, thats almost discriminatory.
It's a great picture, better than some other artwork I have seen for LotR.
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alex.nem. said:
Yes, typic american work
Funny, since I'm Italian.
I'm curious though, what do you see as ' very far from Tolkien's work'? As an illustrator, Professor Tolkien works were rather stylized, my style is definitely more realistic, in that we are definitely 'far' from one another.
If you mean that that's not how you visualize that specific scene out of The Hobbit, well, you have every right, of course, every individual reader (and illustrator) 'sees' things differently when reading. But if in your opinion some things are off with regards to the text itself and Professor Tolkien's vision, well, I'd like to know what your objections are,and elaborate on my choices.
jgt7771 thank you! Yes, Drunken Hallucinations is one of mine, and yes, I did paint one of the enemies for Lord of the Rings. I'm not at liberty of being more precise, at the moment, due to the non-disclosure agreement I'm bound to.
And again thank you to all commenters, sorry for any belated answer, I had a pending deadline.
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alex.nem. said:
What an idiotic, ill-informed statement.
Also, the word you're (presumably) looking for is "typical."
Beatiful looking painting as well. It is very close to the image I have in my head of Thorin over the years. I guess that makes my imagination "typical American"....
Please keep posting more of these when you are able to!!
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That some sweet looking art, looking forward to see more of your work here.
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