apomexus  11/07/05 @436

so so so so beautiful, wish to see full version!

Absolute-naut  11/07/05 @436

wonderful light play, I wish full version too +10

ThruMyEyez  11/07/05 @442

A quick painting???? Amazing!! Wonderful work!!

Jane  11/07/05 @475

Before I read your comment, I thought it reminded me of LOTR. Very well painted, I can't understand how you call this a 'quick' painting! Anyway, will there be a larger version available to view?

Juro  11/07/05 @499

Scenery is your forte, this is really great, the figures and perspective are a tiny bit wrong. The figures are a bit too stunted and chunky, I think taller slimmer figures would add to this no end, and the perspective of the castle looks a bit toyish. Mountains, beast, mist, foreground all top class Excellent work over all.

siffert  11/07/05 @499

Very good work!

ARTOONATOR  11/07/05 @502

I allways love the solidness of the paintings that you make. Espescially the ones with a strong lighting, like this one. Great work.

curlyhair  11/07/05 @505

Another 10+ not bad

jha  11/07/05 @511

beautiful.

breathing2004  11/07/05 @538

GREAT light and reality light!! is that beast wounfed? +10

BaronImpossible  11/07/05 @606

Thanks everyone for the comments / votes so far.  Juro - yep, the figures are wonky. I did them in about 20 minutes, but that's no excuse  breathing2004 - you're right, the beast has a bandage round its leg with a bloodstain on. Difficult to see at this size. I have a larger version on my site ( http://www.painterly.co.uk ) in the Fantasy Gallery (I can't post the direct URL because they sometimes change). The original is about 4000px wide, as I recall.

Andy--Jones  11/07/05 @663

you would make a fantastic concept artist in the film industry (if you aren't already) Great sense of panorama and epic storrytelling in your paintings.

Crow  11/07/05 @686

I see nothing wrong in perspective and the castle is good as well IMO. nice mountain colors, your work seems to suffer from.. somehow too crisp detailing. By that I mean for example the mountains, seems like every single crack of them is super deep and dark and that makes them look really chuncky. That's bit part of your overall style and it happens with everything, characters included. It makes everything like they're rough rock sculptures. Put the details into important areas and don't make every shadow so dark.

spyroteknik  11/07/05 @703

fantastic man, the lighting, colours, everything

Enialadam  11/07/05 @727

wow stunning work! I lov ethe lighting. Great work on the textures!

ARTYESTILO  11/07/05 @730

Great!

Furitsu  11/07/05 @866

Stunning is indeed the word. Especially the lighting and scenery. Wow!

zanzibar  11/07/05 @867

ARTOONATOR  11/07/05 @936

Seriously man, contact Peter Jackson. I know he'd appreciate your style.

trangle  11/07/05 @948

This pic gives me the feeling of being a kid again to hear fairy tale stories told by my mom every night.

beatrizmatar  11/08/05 @015

This is WONDERFUL¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡+10

SailorDidi  11/08/05 @546

stunning light, as usual. A great "quick" painting +10

breathing2004  11/08/05 @552

thanks for your sharing about your web gallery! you know you are one of my faveritest painter now!! keep up! hope see your works more!!

powernemo  11/08/05 @592

Amazing story! Maybe a bit small as image...

elf  11/08/05 @673

wonderfull work! i like your illustration style

Dax  11/08/05 @864

Nice as always...love how you work with the light!

robertmekis  11/09/05 @406

Pretty detailed for quick painting! Result has very nice plasticity and colors - oh I wish it would be possible to get same results in such contrejour-lighting in the real life. Maybe with giant reflection board in the back. Maybe

patrix77  11/09/05 @812

Yay amazing... the lights, shadows, colours, details are excellent... and you call it a quick painting

BaronImpossible  11/09/05 @839

Thanks everyone, much appreciated. OK, it was quick by my standards, but maybe not by anyone else's (it took around 7hrs)

kittyKat  11/09/05 @913

oh this is odd why did I not see this one Great work Mr BaronImpossible!!!!

guymaz  11/10/05 @878

AMAZING!!!! i have 9 points so i will give you 8 kidding +11/10

BillCorbett  11/13/05 @442

Great job my friend no crits from me.

ChristineG  11/17/05 @624

Dinotopia meets Lord of the Rings I like the details in this- it has a lot of character.

Xris  11/20/05 @642

Wonderful piece of imagery Simon - love it! My tops. Well done! Xris

BaronImpossible  11/20/05 @657

Thanks again to everyone who's commented / voted on this image, and on my others too

GULLUANIME  11/25/05 @252

Great! Marvelous Simon, the details are amazing on the animal skin folds…Keep it up! I even see that the creatures been injured…the whole ambience is amazing...on the background as well! I hope we could see a larger version! 10+ cheers! ~Gulzar~

uncle-xeN  12/17/05 @347

+10 coz of the short time only thing which should be improved is the lighting of the mountains... i know you love to use hard contrasts but less hard shadows and some sort of light distance fog would give it abit more depth. dude its time that someone hires you for doing this on a professional (aka paid) level

sdavis75  12/24/05 @557

Beautifully composed; wonderful use of light. Well done! +10

VinA  01/02/06 @127

wonderful!!

mitwo  02/15/06 @309

Great!!! So beautiful!

ZedoCaixao  03/21/06 @273

wonderful job, Simon!!!! +9/9

minkens  05/11/06 @505

damn I love the whole picture :d wonder how u do this +10

Valera  05/17/06 @703

wow....

somersetholmes  05/20/06 @435

Superb work, Baron, I really do believe you can do no wrong, lovely realism and such an enchanting ambience!

landeroc  05/29/06 @605

A quick painting? Wow you're good! I really like this one a lot. Very well done

moserArtist  06/13/06 @912

Wow man! This is just fantastic! Quick painting... yeh

naf  06/15/06 @298

DAmn! Quick painting? I wouldn't be able to do this even if I had all the time in the freakin world! This is one of my favorite works from you! you are truly a great artist! keep posting! your works are really inspiring!

ParanoidChild  06/29/06 @004

wooow it looks so so real... amazing details ...well done!

Slapo  09/08/06 @827

more... more... more... (well yeah, I'm reading the first LOTR book now ) Good job as usual.

Th0mas  12/22/06 @726

Uh.. say what? "A QUICK PAINTING" ????! Well, this information doesn't exactly do anything good for my artistic self confidence, my friend. Please tell me you're joking, eh? Anyway, this is a fantastic piece no matter how much (or little) time you spent on it. Mindblowing! 10/10