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Wow, very good. I'm especially impressed with how you managed to localize the shadows and make them harsh yet realistic. It's a talent I'm still developing. [ATTACH=CONFIG]480[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=CONFIG]481[/ATTACH] These were two 'promo posters' I made for the Teen Titans story I did.

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hi people, this is my art. An In Flames painting tribute speed up video. It's a Come clarity album cover redone with my personal touch. Will be doing more metal related painting videos very soon :) check it and let me know what you think

[ATTACH=CONFIG]499[/ATTACH] Looking for some cool ideas so any painting suggestions requests or painting orders I'm avaliable. Cheers people hope you like it. Stole..
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Very nice. The pinky looks a little strange and the hips are odd but otherwise it's great. I've always envied people who can draw in ink, I've not always had so much success with it. Though I did in a moment of desperation draw on a set of hotel post-it notes with a pen when I didn't bring my drawing pad along. They were OK, but a bit rough. [ATTACH=CONFIG]500[/ATTACH]Another story one. [ATTACH=CONFIG]501[/ATTACH] An odd juxtaposition of humor and death...these separate drawings aren't from the same series. The guy on the left is Gluttony the Homunculus from FMA Brotherhood.

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sticking with the metal theme' date=' here's a new time lapse painting from me
Wow, I did not know that these were actual paintings. That gets a lot of extra credit from me. I did notice that you didn't sketch anything, not even the bodies of your two figures. I have to admit, that got my attention. I almost always have to sketch in order to get a form down pat, but yours was spot on from the get-go. It's also impressive given that you were working with a small canvas because there's less room for error.
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Hey thank you very much for the compliment. I do actualy do these with acrylic paint on canvas. However I do make the general outline of the bodies. If you look closely you can actualy see some pink lines for the bodies. (usualy I use pencil, but this time the background was black so had to use a very metal color pink haha). I'm still in a learning process with these paintings. Before I was only doing pencil drawings, but this is more fun but hard to get the colors right and the blending :/ I'm trying though, and hopefuly each painting will be better. thanks again mate for the nice comment:)

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Hey thank you very much for the compliment. I do actualy do these with acrylic paint on canvas. However I do make the general outline of the bodies. If you look closely you can actualy see some pink lines for the bodies. (usualy I use pencil' date=' but this time the background was black so had to use a very metal color pink haha). I'm still in a learning process with these paintings. Before I was only doing pencil drawings, but this is more fun but hard to get the colors right and the blending :/ I'm trying though, and hopefuly each painting will be better. thanks again mate for the nice comment:)[/quote'] You're braver than I am. As you can see I'm essentially restricted to pencil right now. I've tried to use colored pencils, but with mixed results.
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