Delicious crispness. Great colorwork. That dog is gorgeous!

I was going to say that that Rott is quite hairy! But then I saw your caption about it being real big..lol Very cool! You did a great job on the characters clothing! The lighting on the face looks really good too! Nice work!

Amazing work, very realistic.

Just Wonderful¡¡¡¡¡+10

wonderful
great ...the deferens between BG and FG

Wonderfrul!....top marks!
Carlos

for me, it's too "cookie cutter". you can tell everything is posed and the cool thing about painting or drawing is that it's easier to not let things look that way. the man's movement with his arm is too perfect, the dog too placed, the foreground elements too obvious - even having the tree so dead center on the left frame edge is too placed... seems I've seen this image before many times over on fantasy novels even though this is an original.

tech:

• the hands are too small for the man's body (yes I know the dog is supernormous, but I'm talking about proportions here)
• the coloring everywhere is too "here is highlight, here is midtone and here is shadow", meaning that it looks like there is NO light source anywhere. even on a cloudy day at high noon with snow everywhere, there would be a light source of some kind to differentiate the tones within say, the green shirt or the very brown hair.

Other than that, the work is well done. I would definitely work on anatomy and movement and the entire reasoning behind the design of a piece. +8/10

(I never crit'ed your works before that I can remember - I'm always really honest and try to be helpful, don't take offense and feel free to send a PM to discuss something more in depth! - Louisa)

Great and Amazing work. 9|9

just love it

That is one big dog
Beautiful painting

Great work. Amazing details. +10

Awesome piece Henning, i also love the B/W ineriors you did for the book.

+8/10 Nice!

excellent. great details
great job. top marks
Florin

I'll bet that mutt takes a bit of feeding. Great job Henning, as always, I can imagine it looking really good with the title in place +9/10

i love the clothes and the dog. really great stuff

CreativeSchism: Hehe, yeahm it's a big dog, it's even a young one according to the story. Thanks

starqueen: Thanks for your citiques, it's nice to get some more into depth feedback.

j-art: Thanks for your comment, Uwe The interiors was quite a task, hehe. They are rough, yes, but it's so maaany of them.

BaronImpossible: Thanks Simon, you can see what the book looks like on my site, with the text and border if this is of interest.

Obscured: Thanks, he was supposed to be wearing some simple cloth/leather kind of clothing, as he is a human raised by elves... according to the author.

Everybody else: Thanks for taking your time to comment!

great..!

Hey - Top Work. Looks great with text and border.

amazing work!

Wonderful almost 3 dimentional painting!
Dog looks almost exactly like one of our 6 dogs .....only the size is slightly different of course LOL