wow amazing work the full version look a lot better. you can see all the details you put into it. nice work

wonderful and insane amount of detail! Everything looks fantastic. Her raised arm looks like it could use some more perspective definition ( I think I just made that term up) or something! It looks right but somehow there is someting missing! I cant explain it lol!

That takes nothing away from the rest though as i think it is a stunning piece!

10

Amazing piece

Like Andy said i think her raised right arm is a bit off
I thinkt looks like the arm is going to the back,
looking at the muscle definitions, but her hand is
pointing towards the viewer.

Anywy, the details and colours are fantastic

this is an elite piece + 10

OMG, this deserves to be elite as wallace said. So much colors, and they all fit altogether. But I must agree with andy about the had, it looks very weird. Did you use a reference for it? I can't explain either what wrong with it.
I think the owl is awesome, but It's doesn't look like it's flying, in movement, maybe you could add some motion blur, nothing too artificial though.
I really like her hair and the way she's clad. Gorgeous face too.

10

Incredible work!
I love it ++10
Emile you are fantastic

It's a lovely piece but in honestly why is the cloth more detailed and realistic than the hair?

I think the picture will look better if the hair on her face was more real looking....less smudge brush!

You are very skilled artist without doubt but sometimes I get disappointed when your skill is not there in certain part even though you can do so much better that is all.

Thanks for sharing.

You did a nice job putting all those photos in your work,it looks like it's all painted. It's a great photomanipulation to me, but not a great painting. +6

i love this work! the colors is beautiful!

Thanks for all your comments.
I had some trouble with the composition and the left arm.

I’ve been painting for a year now after a very long period (20 jr) of creative inactivity. I guess until now I’ve been focussing too much on painting technique and too little on composition (among other things.)
Maybe it’s better to split up this painting into two separate ones.

Anyway it was worthwhile exercise and I hope to incorporate all of the newly gained insights in my next painting.

Btw, Rafsan, You’re a funny guy. I’ll take it as a compliment

Beautiful work

Well done, great amount of details. Dont like composition too much, but overall its great.

i love it, its so perfect, the only thing that doesnt sit right with me is her mouth. Im not sure why, maybe the chin is too small?
7/7

A very cool piece, and awesome color palette. The face looks great to me, even if it's a little unusual. The dress rather reminds of the tail of a red beta fishie - did you reference something like that?

A few nitpicks though, the composition is kinda odd, because the interaction between the two main objects - the owl and the witch is, well, not there. The owl is happily going on its own business, and the witch is staring at the viewer, and other than the swirly magicky thingies, it's hard to tell that they're related at all. The body language of the witch doesn't help much, as while the whispy stuff suggests that she is in some way controlling the owl, the confusion over what exactly is going on with her arm/hand along with that part of her body being drawn back make it kind of ambiguous. It would perhaps be clearer if her body was rotated the other way round, with the shoulder closest to the owl going forth rather than back (comparably to a person pushing or tossing something like a ball).

And, secondly, wtf is up with the smudge brush? It makes the picture overall inconsistant, and with some areas being very realistic and some others very vague, I can see where Rafsan is coming from with the comment on it looking like a manip.

I realise that a large portion of what is said here can't be applied to this picture at this stage (nor would you necessarily want to change it anyways), just stuff for future consideration. ^^

Thank you for commenting
No it isn’t a Photo manip (look @ my other work..)True I went a bit crazy on some details and some, like the dress I messed up a bit trying to get some depth effect. The hair was one of the last parts that that I worked on and after so many weeks staring at this painting I became really bored with it ( and perhaps therefore didn’t see the many mistakes in composition and all that.) and so the smudgy part didn’t bother me much ( actually it still doesn’t..) But your right about inconsistency, I guess I experiment way too much…have to change that.

I used a ref for the owl, the hand of the witch and “only the crisscross string part” of her armour was inspired by a picture of toy suit I accidentally came across

Great character design. Good composition and colors. +10

amazing!! really incredible work!

Nice work, the photographic elements stand out a bit but even so, nice work.

Great colors and excellent composition!!....top marks!
Carlos

I do see some overpainted liquified photo-elements. If not; Why go that far in realism, and why only in parts of the image? It hink it's a lot better if you tried to achieve a consistent look. Plus, an overall personal painterly touch would be more powerfull an personal. Because, wether it's (partially) overpaint or not, this look could be achieved by manipulation, so why go through all that trouble painting it?

Not to take it all down, I think the palette and the originality of figures is good.

Hi artists,

Thanks for your comments. I don’t want to repeat myself about what this painting(!) is. But when you experiment with PS you can get some very unexpected results bij duplicating layers and using different blending modes which alters the thing you’ve just painted completely and I sometime want to see how far you can go in realism.( In fact it turns me on It’s a personal challenge but not always very artistic. However I’am convinced that I can use the newly gained knowledge in a more subtle way in one of my next paintings.

The staff for example is just a compostion of one painted part, duplicated a few times and positioning them to form the top part of the staff. Then use some dodge and burn, maybe add a screen layer and hey it looks like metal. Nice or not but it sure looks like metal to me. And something like that was done with her armour too. Further more I worked out each part separately that’s not a very good way to a chive a consistent look. And true there are a few issue’s with the whole composition.

And hey!! it wasn’t a commissioned piece, it’s just me!!
learning to master ps and painter and therefore trying to get some useful feedback from a place like this.

Thanks

I have already told you what I thought about it, great work
+9/10

It is a great piece of art for sure, the color palette is marvelous, so is the composition.

But why should an artist be so skilled that he can paint perfect arms and hands like this, but forget to paint the hands in the correct size and proportions?
There are other parts of this painting which make it look weird and like something puzzeled, too.
The connection of her upper body to her buttom/ left leg isn't one tad correct and the top she is wearing does not fit into any painted style.
On top of that, the hair appears like a photo which was overworked with the smudge tool.

I know of no reason why it should be so bad to post references once they're required; in fact your artwork is in the wrong category.
You should move it sothat it can receive the great points that it obviously deserves.

• night.

Sigh..,
It would be nice to be able to draw and to be able to paint. Too bad I have to learn each of those.
If you painted youself you would know that they are separate things. Like imagination, and a good feel for design etc etc
Like in every cartoon or 3d movie they use the skills of artists/craftsmen for each of those separately.
If you have used painter or Photoshop only very little or not at all then you do not know what you are looking at (with concern to the painting technique .)

You can only tell if you like it or not or give me suggestions about colour or composition , things like that..
If it was a paintover my proportions and everything else would be perfect. The hair? :Look at my other work…
Etc etc etc…… you should only judge what you know ….
Btw I’m not here for the points, just for fun(?) and to learn..

The fun is slowly dissapearing isn't it?
No, seriously, I believe you when you say the 'realism freak' took control of you. I know the feeling. However, staring yourself blind on details goes at the expense of the actual image. The challenge to integrate the skills used in this painting and turning them into one consistent strong style could result in mindblowing images in the near future.
I'm looking forward to that, really.

Beautiful painting, though her chest looks a bit odd to me.

This is a great piece, you're amazing with details. Concentrate more on focal points; If you add the same amount of detail throughout, it feels a bit flat. Right now it's a bit too 'tight' and cluttered. Great work regardless,

+10

woooow awesome artwotk i like the level of the detail great.


+10/10

I'm sorry for my previous comment about you using photos, you're absolutely a great painter! Send you a PM.

I can see Jaime Pressly.
Great piece.Top score in my book.

GREAT work !! awesome technique~

The face of the witch on the close up is really amazing
+9