Defender

Painting \ Uncategorized | 04/26/08 @175 | chickenfingers | critiques (19) | views (619)

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First part of a mini series in which I try to portray strong female protagonists that defy fantasy and sci-fi norms. Will I be successful? Tune in next time to find out. Rest assured I shall venture beyond the warrior trope (but, hey, it seemed like a fun place to start, and it is a genre staple)

So, PS CS2 with a dash of Painter (gotta ease my way into that one). I won't post a full version, because it's pretty big (and we don't want to make print-size files available to the world, eh?), but there's a detail shot @ 25% down under, which I would encourage you to peep.

Things are getting hairy, what with the semester drawing to a close, so I've not had much time to comment, sadly. Still, your feedback is mucho welcome, as always.

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ARZILLIER66

04/26/08 @203

Cool work!
nice composition

curlyhair

04/26/08 @262

Another great by you!Your imagination just don't stop surprising! Amazing work with colors. The monster - I laughed to myself when I called hem that - it looks too cute and not attacking..so the "defender" looks more like attacking...but considering unusual atmosphere I can accept that this thing is attacking in it's own weird way

The pose of a girl is a bi off - I think her left leg should be turned in the opposite direction a little to make her more stable there
Anyway it's a brilliant concept and lovely execution. Obviously deserve my ten as one of the most original and interesting works at this forum

taaeb

04/26/08 @603

wonderful

ersen-t

04/26/08 @866

good work.
great composition.

purplerose

04/26/08 @944

very nice work. Really love the perspective and the lighting.

+10

Wallace

04/27/08 @069

Excellent stuff!

Great sense of depth and perspective

Dynamic painting

I do think the pose is a bit 'stiff'

+ 9

chickenfingers

04/27/08 @128

Thanks for the comments, guys! Curlyhair and Wallace, I did have a few folks posing for me, but I agree she is a little stiff (ah, that artistic bugbear haunts my ever effort to paint figures!). In my defense, archery tends to promote stiff poses... maybe?

I will have to revisit this in a little while once I can get a fresh perspective on it, and perhaps I'll be able to overcome that issue. In the mean time, gotta finish those final projects. Argh argh argh.

ansu

04/27/08 @405

Wow.. This is nice.. Love the colours and .. well everything. These kind of pictures get me to realize how much i still need to learn. Good job!

trevorm

04/27/08 @714

Stunning work! Amazing. No crits from me.

cgaddict

04/28/08 @632

Looks great! The composition I have to say is very well done, one of the most dynamic I've seen in quite some time. No critiques on my part.

+7/7

Madanapale

04/28/08 @727

Great action!....Excellent composition!
Beautiful work Kerry!
Carlos

L-iNC

04/29/08 @378

Good painting. I like the composition.

rao

05/02/08 @950

Good work. I like the moment, very dynamic. Interesting "things" in background, I don't know what is it, but looks cool

REIQ

05/03/08 @114

looks awesome really, but the facial expression need more work

CreativeSchism

05/03/08 @705

I like the perspective. Nice job on the lighting at the top too! Good work!

JeffMD

05/06/08 @207

excellent perspective and image framing ! lovely image this is.

Juro

05/07/08 @943

I love this, very nice work indeed!

Jane

05/08/08 @599

Yeah, I like the strong light and shadow effect the flare creates on the woman. Nice sense of depth! I may wish to see the flying beast a little brighter, as it isn't too easy to tell what it actually looks like since it is so dark, at least not on this computer. Still, this is good stuff. Keep it up!

johanflood

05/21/08 @391

the upper left part looks really good. keep at it

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