Temple, John Wallin Liberto (2D)

[Artie]

Hey John, nice to see your great work again! Masterpiece! :)

[TonyCcY]

@Q@ !!! nice! :bounce:

[AbueroAllenstein]

OMG wow! Supreme work.

[Shad0W6600]

Very nice piece. I really like the composition you chose, it works well. However, I just wish there was a little more definition in the trees on the right side of the image. I know you did a bit of stylization on the trees, but the entire image looks really sharp until I look in this area. Either way, excellent work.

[lord Sphere]

It's excellent. Is it based on any particular temple? How many layers did you end up using?

[isigraphics]

nice work man!

i really like the little buddah :thumbsup:

[Opeth]

wow...excellent job.
did you use a reference image? could you post it if u did please?

[Nelis]

WOW all i can say is............detailed...............man i just love these kind of pictures with nice contrasts and the theme is wonderfull.

how do you manage to keep everything under controle while painting......this is just crazy.

youve got my compliments...!!!

greets

Niels Sinke

[deathblood]

yea.....I like it very much....Great work....http://www.cgtalk.com/images/icons/icon13.gif

[Turboff]

Amazing. It almost blew me away when I first opened the page. This is just microns away from looking real.

[DavStar]

Very, Very Nice. I'm especially taken by the mountain-

[cg219]

WOW, First look I tohught it was a photograph or a 3d model. The building and background look amazingly real. Great job.

[PascalR]

Really impressive,

Amazing work.
5 stars

Pascal

[Evil Dead]

Co-o-o-o-o-o-ol!!!

[HOON]

absolutely inspiring.
its gorgeous. wish i can be there. though i feel like i just had lung-ful of fresh clean air in my system just by looking at it. thanks.

[Pete Latrofa]

man, i love everything about this piece. the mood, the technique, the color scheme, the content, the architecture, the landscape, the lighting, the angle, the composition. geez. amazing job!

[charis]

Truly first rate John, a masterpiece! I hope we'll be seeing allot more of your work in the near future.

All the best to you!

[pailhead]

WOW, i think thats all i can say for now,

which tablet do you use? Magic wand :scream:

[huai_te]

MAMAMI YA~~~ what the astonished job...
i just luv it :)

[jfb]

Really fantastic, very fine, I like a lot!

[theCloudmover]

Whoa.

:applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause:

[HenningK]

Wow. Good sense of place. I love it.
Each one of the close ups is a front pager by itself.
-hen

[lapinstudios]

great job :eek:

[olijosman]

Hooou! I am without words.

fantastic work and incredible accomplishment....:eek: excellent!

[thesuit]

it looks great! I love the shadows and the lights. The materials are well defined and the over all mood helps a lot...

keep it up! two thumbs up :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

[BernardoDelgado]

oh my god :D

[Saeed]

Greeeeeeeat :eek: well done:thumbsup:

[KingFurryWobblr]

Tight - really good stuff!

[Xform]

Amazing work! Really good, and its nice to see some swedish ppl here at cgtalk to!:)

Har du gått nån utbildning eller är du självlärd?

[Szishren]

Wow, stunning piece.

For some reason I totally dig the rooftiles... *stares at the rooftiles in awe*

[eldee]

this is truly fantastic work....
amazing high res imagry, you must have a very powerful computer :)
did you paint the entire image as a whole? or break your piece up into smaller parts and stitch them back together?

[rawgon]

brilliant painting man
very skillfull
good subject:scream:

[Novakog]

Wow, this is beautiful! :thumbsup: I wish I could paint like that.

[SteveNewport]

Looks great! However, I believe there are a few more things that could enhance the look of your image a lot. I was looking at it and, although I liked it right away, something about it seemed fake to me, it didn't convince me that it could be something real, as I'm assuming your intentions. One simple thing you could try doing is playing with the curves and levels a little more... make the darkers more dark. My reasoning for this is the light source seems to be coming from the back left, illuminating the sides of the mountain, the top of the roof, and most of all the sky/clouds. The sky looks really bright and having it that bright I would expect to see, since our eyes and camera's adjust to different types of light, the front of the house and vegetation, which are not getting direct light from the sun, to be of a darker value. They would then have a little more darker and saturated hue to them because of the ambient light being reflected onto them from the surrounding objects. But if the bright sky is part of the picture my eyes would definitely expect to see more of the image darker. This would make the image a lot more interesting to stare at and more convincing at the same time. Try it out and let me know if it works to your liking.
Simply looking at my LCD screen at a different angle makes the darks darker and it seems to work very nicely, but try it out if you feel like it

Your textures, strokes and details are definitely something to admire, take care

[elnady]

Great work:thumbsup:

[Branko]

The close-up of the roof tiles is absolutely gorgeous.

[windowlicker]

Grrr... I hate you. I'm SO gonna suck the talent out of you next time we meet! ;)

Great work John!! (as always) :beer:

[danydrunk]

hey one question, how do you do to sketch in photoshop and obtain thos vertical straigh lines? it doesnt seem that you used the pen tool, so how did you obtain straight vertical lines then?

[Ollarin]

Holy muffins! Awesome work! Stunning stuff! :eek:

[rickycox]

Truly awesome work, I love the subject matter and all the fine detail.

[VelvetDragon]

WOW !! Nothing to say but... WOW !!

You killed me...

[a1ph0r]

Woah thats beautiful , loads of details :thumbsup: , great job !

[DarkAngelSyn]

freak'n sweet!!! Amazing work

[ervine]

That's just too beautiful....

[cLos71]

...greatly achieved! Look forward to seeing more of your work. :applause:

[Chrono000]

that amazing, those extra close up shots are wicked because it really shows your work. ive learned sumthing new today. thanks.

[andreasrocha]

Fantastic job as always...your work is truly inspiring. It's a shame you don't post more on this forum...

[burnol]

Hi John,

I'm very impressed with your work, and I was wondering if we can hire you to do some work for us?

How do I contact with you? or can you mail me directly?

Thanks-

-Jim

My mail as folllow:
burnol11@hotmail.com

[stephen2002]

I saw the thumbnail on the front page and clicked on it and was surprised to see that it was a 2D painted image. Very impressive amount of small details you put into this, a very good piece of work.

[Franc]

wow cool map :thumbsup: good work

[Tilstrom]

excellent work, very cool. :)

[Goro]

Nice to see you here Captain! (Mitsui from sijun)
This is breathtaking!

I'm always amazed by your work!! :thumbsup: :scream: :eek:

[NinjaA55N]

perfect, nothing more to say...

[SpaceTik]

Another masterpiece! Bloody amazing!

[habashart]

I envy you swede people, you have an incredible beautiful sense in painting.
the sense in place, perspectives and color. you can visualize a perfect world from the simplest elements. this temple painting is number one, of course beside all Linda Bergkvist work :).
Congratulation.

[RyanDHale]

Great Painting i just got back from Japan and the sense and scale really remind me of some of the temples i got to see. Well impressed!

[ivanNYC]

I love the fact that you gave us a closer look, so we can see the acctual brush texture. It gives it that painted look wich is great. I love teh angle of the composition, great stuff.

[ward]

Hehey!!, My best pal is about to collect a new CGtalk Award again :)

Wonderful work John, as usual.


(now move your ass back to the UK to have lunch together! :).)

[XYZRGB]

You are truly a master of light !

Brilliant ! :thumbsup:

If I had to make a criticism, I might add that the water could use a little more work.
I had to zoom up on the image to see that the background was painted.
My first thoughts of the image were that it was a collage of painted foreground, and photographic background elements.
You had me fooled - well done !

[DavisPoon]

what can I say?
Nice!:thumbsup:

[blueput]

very very nicehttp://www.cgtalk.com/images/icons/icon13.gif

[dgpilot]

Amazing! Such elegant and natural brush strokes.

[chainjane]

Amazing!great atmosphere.

[Neochris]

Crazy Stuff!!!
You're really do a awesome job!

[CaptFlushGarden]

Wow! so many posts, I'll thank you all in one go those who gave me such great compliments! thanx!

It is not painted from a reference image, tho i did look on the internet what temples look like, at buddha statues and trees, to get a good feeling of it all!




Shad0W6600: thanx for crits, I'll nudge that part a bit!

Xform: lol! i always thought there was pretty many of us! Nepp bara självlärd...tyvärr :(

Szishren: that's really wierd, cause 2 other guys also wanted to se the rooftiles haha, funny!


eldee: thanx, nah i really have to upgrade my computer, 2.53Ghz p4, 1.5 gb ram, and so on, really painful sometimes, i painted first the iamge at maybe 2000 pixels high, when i wanted to go for more details i scaled it up to 4k, then 6k and finally 8k


Steve Newport: thanx alot for the comments! I guess i was too proud of what i had painted so i didnt hide with the suttlety (dunno how to spell) of realism, i havent tried it yet but i bet your're right, u seem to know your stuff! thanx for the tips i appreschiate it alot!

Windowlicker: iiiik! so do you want a muffin with that ? :P se you out there in some cafe with too many fjortisar drinking latte's too slow making the prices too high cause they never leave hahaha :P

Danydrunk: i dont understand exactly what u mean, might be the lasso tool? i seldom use the pen tool even tho i should. but i often do use the lasso tool.

Admiral Ra: mmmmm...holy muffins....grlgrlgrlgrlgrlgrlrgrl!

Yooo, mr Ward! lunch at 1300 ye? ooh :( i miss that, maybe we could have some lunches in the future, lets pray for that!

Vegan: thanx for the critique, thing is I'm so god damn lazy, could have spent at least 2 more days on this, but I'll remember your thoughts ad try and change it when i have the time, cheers! :)


Thanx all take care!

John

[Kyena]

What a wonderful piece...amazing light and well I could only repeat what everyone else already mentioned..I am in awe :)

[pearl3d]

amazing work......fantastic :bounce:

[Logan769]

That is a sweet picture. i especially like how you did the water fall.:thumbsup: also great job on the shading you can almost hardly tell you did it with paint works.

[HocusPocus]

really amazing!!!

[Rrs]

http://www.cgtalk.com/images/icons/icon13.gif

you did a great job .
i wonder how long it will take to make the pic with photoshop

[Isurus]

are you kidding me ? i thought this was a cg scene at first glance. the perspective is amazing.

[shadowkeeper]

:eek: Wow! Look at those details. I like the statue of Buda (or who ever he might be) on the waterfal. ;) Keep up the great work.

[HapZungLam]

do you have the full version? i would love to put it as my desktop wallpaper

[cr0ss]

huh, how realistic your work is :eek:
absolutelly fantastic and worth five stars.:applause:

[kheemo]

one of the best photoshop painting Ive seen !!!

[funkbuttah]

Great. Love the Budha, impressive brushwork.

[Mirwen]

It's perfect man. I love your sense for detail and beautiful very very verY real colors! in fact, I also like the fact that it is chinesse architecture (It is not Japaponese, or is it?). I like far east

[Miranda]

as snyggt! grymt harlig ljussattning!

[Mindgem]

Beautiful..

[Eiyon]

you work has inspired me. It's beautiful =3

[ditchman]

YOU DIDN'T EVEN USE REFERENCE?!? it's so real! are you some kind of art ninja?

[techart]

awesome painting man......like the lighting alot....the trees and the mountain are realy cool too....cheers tech

[Amilton Diesel]

Is a Masterpiece indeed, great detail on the vegetation. No words to describe, simply awesome

[vki77]

Neat work buddy - very well put together

[Luter]

Congratulations. That sort of picture with such elegance give more desire to paint, if it's possible.Regards.

[CaptFlushGarden]

wow thanx for al the compliments you guys, wow!

[karanta]

Wonderful image!

[amitkhanna]

Damm neat, Its just amazing. The amount of detail is wonderful. I really liked the slanting tin roof.

How long did you take to complete the painting ?

[degrotegast]

very, very impressive! awesome work! respect

[rafaelrubio]

there are not words for say you what i think of your work.
One of the better 2d works that i had never seen.


Congratulations for your work friend.

[ShadowElf]

haha, It looks familiar! A view of China! I'm just trying to see the Chinese characters. Great work!:thumbsup:

[valkyria]

I think the compotistion with the upward perspective makes for a really impressive image, plus the suberp painting of course. Nice to see you posted some WIP examples as well

[Common Terry]

Beautiful! I love seeing the closeups of the brush strokes, also the initial blocking in of the layout. Well done, and thanks for the treat to the eyes.

[michael101171]

Great in every sense!

[NOOB!]

how long did this masterpiece take.i'm curious cos i wanna knoqif my paintings are not taking too long,or if i'm doing it right.

[sentidos]

You are a genius.
:eek:

[DarkChilde3DCG]

I'm speechless . . . out of the entire newsletter (I'm checking all of them out one by one) I do believe that this is the best out of them all (so far at least), or at least my favorite.

[TravaiL]

WOW, That's so impressive! no crit and 5 stars!

[Sardinha]

beautiful work! just enough of the painterly flair to keep it juiced! i am green with envy.


cheers

[redneckstudio]

Beautiful and full of grandeur. Very nice environment. I always love Japanese imagery.

[clever_guy]

As mentioned - A Masterpiece!!!

:applause: :applause::applause:

-CG

[dave247]

wow! insanly awesome. i will never be able to do that :(

[ange_varma]

lol! my father came in and asked who photographed that (hes just gotten into photography) thumbs up!!

-ange

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