Old World, Dana Daukshta (2D)

[siouxfire]

That is spectacular work! (Wow - there's been a lot of great matte shots lately!) Did you paint that entirely in Photoshop? However you did it, it's amazing. So many "places" in this painting - varying texture in the sky and woods, 3 towers, the valley, the waterfall... VERY NICE.

[imothep85]

Very good start, for a first matte painting, i remember my first mattes(big shi...)lol,.
Its a good matte BUT attention when you painting rocs,if you add too much cracks on the stones, this adding a not realistic effect, for create good rocs im use differents brush in photoshop+ a layer wit patterns, after im mix the layers, add colors, and for finish the rocs im painting the shadows, lights, and cracks ;)
very good painting

[momo2004]

wow. that is amazing. Very beautiful work.

[faridz7]

ok ive seen wayyyyy too many matte paintings today and what is depressing is that all of them are awesome! great atmospheric mood you got there-love the fog. no serious critique that i can give as my skills are not up to yours..but maybe, (dont hunt me down now) the water frm the um...waterfall could be a lil more..blurry towards the end? or maybe its just me. anyways, remarkable piece of work. if this doesnt win a cgtalk award, i can only imagine what kind of high quality work they're expecting. http://cgtalk.com/images/smilies/thumbsup.gif

[Ze Aratloss]

That is just gorgeous Inky2! I love the atmosphere you've capture its very sad and yet drive me to be more peacefull. I love the tought of a lost civilisation and all that reamins are the decading building. this as just give me a boost of inpiration for my novel, Tank you!!!
:love:

[Tidus_44]

defintly a gallery peice, i really like your choice of color, and angles, i love it

[ICM]

Amazing detail and atmosphere. Bravo!!

[GekiSan]

wow. that is amazing. Very beautiful work.
I agree.
Great detail, nice Texs, nice Illusion of Depth, I like it a lot. :)

[SpiritDreamer]

First of all your painting is absolutely beautiful. Curious, is this based on an actual place or photograph or is this the product of your wonderful imagination? I have seen people describing paintings as "matte". Can you define the term "matte" for me...as opposed to just a printing method? On the CGtalk I have only seen it used for the grand panoramic paintings. Thanks and we love your work.

[snix]

wonderful piece!!

[henningsen]

Wow! This is an amazing piece of artwork! Such lovely details. The rock texture on the mountains, the pine trees, the fog, the waterfalls, and the castle... Just perfect :-)

[inky2]

Many thanks for your coments and good words!Yes,Glenn,this is result of my imagination.How can I to exsplane with my poore English the term,,matte,,?I think,this is chanse for artist to make changes into the Nature and on the canvas only.I was looking long time to the ,,matte,,of Dusso/wonderful artwork!/ and was so sad.And after I decide to try!

[rmsmedia]

unbelievable work! The level of detail is rediculous! The rocks are gorgeous....its just amazing...

[Jameslsy]

Beautiful.. simply beautiful!

[dave247]

Yes it is crazy how perfect that is!!

Every day I come here and see unbelievable work. Can someone, anyone, point me to some artist's website where they do in detail wip's? because I want to study ppl's technique.

my mind is so blown.

[-NG-]

Excellent one:thumbsup: the detail is awesome, and there's really a feel of distance in it.

100% Gallery worthy.

[JohnBruk]

Impressive scene...Excellent atmosphere,idea and compositon..
i like fantasy... :-)

[tlggungor]

wonderfull:thumbsup:


2d challenge ARTS

[gryclls]

wow,wow, wow .......amazing piece of work...i like the depth and ambience of the scene...

KEEP GOIN MEN............

[SteveNewport]

Inky, very great piece you have here! Your skill shows through and your attention for detail is admirable.

However, one thing that this piece, and many great artists suffer from is an effective use of contrast. When shooting for realism, which is generally the purpose of a good matte painting, you need to think "what defines realism." How can we define what looks real... well, for that question you have to confront "what looks, what allows us to see?" Obviously, this is our eyes, and so, to understand what makes things look real and how to make something look real, we have to understand how our own eyes work. Our eyes work very similarly to cameras. And these two things; our own eyes and photographs, are what define "real" to us. What defines our eyes and cameras is the ability to adjust to any given lighting situation. Our eyes have censors that send information to the brain. (I'm sure you already know all this, but I'm trying to apply it!) White is always white in our brains and black is always black in our brains, what adjusts is our pupils and how our eyes recieve the light, not how it's interpreted to our brains. So our pupils dialate according to any given lighting circumstance to achieve the most efficient, broadest range of values our eyes can handle. Our eyes can never observe every value there is in nature in any given scene, there will always be detail in the darkest of darks our eyes will read as black and there will always be details in the lightest of lights that our eyes will adjust as white. If our eyes could read the entire range of values presented in nature, we would see images similar to the one you are presenting: You've got incredible detail in the darker portions of the scene as well in the lighter portions, one of which has to go or both of which should be toned down. If you have an LCD screen you can instantly see what I mean, look at your image from an angle and you can see the dramatic dynamic difference a little contrast will add to your scene. Our eyes could not look at this scene in real life towards a lit sky and an unlit, shadowed land and observe detail in both. Play with the levels and curves a little and I think you will agree. It will also give a little more interest in the monochrome of heavy blue tones of your piece. A lot of matte painters and painters in general suffer from this wanting to have detail in every nook and cranny, so they do so at the expense of values and realistic contrast and values. Play around and see if you like it, I'd like to see the results as well! great job and take care

[3Den]

Hi Dana ! Glad to see you here :) you stuff awesome .... as usualy :)

[Slurry]

First of all: absolutely gorgeous painting.

But, I'm not sure it would work as a matte painting. It's a little too painterly and not photorealistic enough.
Would be a great layout for an animated peice or concept art for a movie.
Really, very well done.

Art

[???]

Holy jesus http://cgtalk.com/images/smilies/eek.gif

[curaremac]

beautiful artwork! i love the mood atmosphere and the colors. the big tower is interesting, am i wrong or is it somehow inspired in the Pisa Baptistery in Italy? anyway its a great adaptation. congrats! :applause:

cheers

Curare.

[Markski]

I really love the green haziness. Great rocks and foliage too!

[atenyotkin]

That is truly nice! How long did it take you to paint that?

[alvaro0o]

goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooood, im not sleeping a week in the end i get something massed up, how do u do this? how??????howww?????

[Ollarin]

Wow! Awesome work man! Great colours, great everything!

Damn...It's such a pleasure to admire it! O_o

[confluence]

great work!!!

[MorganRalston]

Beautiful work!

[japeone]

great work! 5 star!

[japeone]

great work! 5 star!

[deathblood]

great work~
how long did you do it??& how did you make it??
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[Deniss]

Privet dana!
Rad tebja zdess uvidet.
Otlichnaja rabota! Chem seichas zanimaeshsja?
Dennis

[Androgs]

Wow!!!:thumbsup: Thumbs up!!! can we also see the reference pleeease??? (if you don't mind of course):D:D.

want to see your other work!!!:)

[Tranchefeux]

Hello, Super work, nothing with saying that bravo

[Michael Miller]

:buttrock: that is sweet man

[redneckstudio]

Beautiful. I love the mood that you've captured. This piece works as a stand alone painting as well as a matte painting. Post some more, I can't wait.

[Velinov]

Great Suff sfom you man:) Keep it up:)

[BazaL]

wowowowowwww

GREAT work, the painting is amazing ! :eek:

[agades]

Coooool :)

[RAYLOC]

Very Interesting!
Especielly I like the sculpture on the hill. Its like a left stone prophet, left by all those who had to go away...
That picture has a very sad atmosphere. And in my eye its very alive.
Its more a piece of art than a mattepainting.
How long time did you spend on this work?

:) Un, kapeec Tu straadaa 2D, ja 3D Tev atlautu vel briivak veidot savas domas?
Bet gan neraizeejies, sheit Tu izraadiiji meistariibu :) Miili Apsveicu!

[eclu]

great atmosphere and details!

[HWX]

wow cool ! I work hard

[Concept-Mutt]

interesting use of space. very nicely done.

[Escaper]

Congrats with award! You really deserve it! Such a good landscape painting :thumbsup:
Great to see someone awarded from our country :wavey:

[inky2]

Thanks for all people from diferent side of world,who send me so warm words.Thanks latvian people,who live in diferent parts of world and write me too!I will try to be up to standard:)inky2

[kylda]

Excenllent work!The atmosphere and detail is perfect!It's a pity that i can't see the hi-res image.

[Haiasi]

WOW! That's so beautiful!

I want to live there :(

[glim]

i like very well your work:thumbsup: it's very impressive:bowdown:

i like light color all ... very great

[ZombieFrog]

All i have to say, is "wow"

[SandCastle]

Feel~~~~~~good

[mnt]

Veeeeeerry lovely..

[*crazycat*]

:thumbsup: perfect , i can't find any problem.

[guga3008]

Great job. Did u use any tablet like Wacom or something? and another one: On the bottom of the waterfall, the smoke made by water perticles looks like a face. Was that what u mean?
tks

[souffle]

very good job, super color

[q163p]

Seeing a view color unifies the coordination
The very beautiful landscape causes people association of thought

[warmonkey]

hi

very nice work

i made a quick paint over, i most likey ruined it but here you can see a few things i would suggest
(one grain of salt)
http://home.earthlink.net/~neo8josh/ccopy.jpg

[inky2]

Hi ,good war! May be with you correction will be better,thank you for advice!

[Kragh]

Very nice painting, great choice of angle, and nice colors. Doesn´t fit my understanding of a matte painting, but who cares...

Really something special.

And to Steve Newport; Thx alot for this great explaination about eyes, and how they work irl. You are very right I think, will work on that myself. Also think it would add a lot of realizm to this piece, but may not have been the goal for the artist.

Keep this level Daukshta, and great things will happen for you...

[Zippydan]

Great piece of work!
Were you inspired by the Pisa baptistry in Italy? I seem to recognize some of the architectural elements of it.

[luCiFEAR]

hello inky2 it's grea to see a brother from baltic countrees you rock!! keep going ;)

[snwbrdn7]

Truly incredible. Your first Matte Painting. Wheeeww. I am truly impressed.:)

[Tris3d]

Amazing! Amazing! Amazing! Your first one?? :bowdown:

[bytemebabs]

One word describes this ... AWESOME! There is nothing you could improve on this and anyone that thinks you can, needs their eyes checked.

[jordancheng]

The very have of the performance vehemence!Good work!

[emuLynx]

Dana, you know that we just adore your masterpieces and are waiting for more in different styles ;) Don't forget that once you've tried to paint my face in 52x52 (PIXELS!) resolution :D

Congrats with award! You really deserve it! Such a good landscape painting :thumbsup:
Great to see someone awarded from our country :wavey:

Escaper, great job with Bejeweled 2 backgrounds. Some spectacular stuff, most of them look very real!

[inky2]

Hi, emuLynx! I so happy to see you here:) To worshipper of my creation:))! I am preparing something different,more joyful! but not so fast.Hi! Hi!:)

[ali_3dartist]

nice
very nice
i m new in 2d illustration
can u show me the way that i should learn it
tanx agin
5star

[sevenjing]

太壮观了。。。。很喜欢~~~~~~~~~:thumbsup:

[nader]

no crit, beautiful .........:thumbsup:

[goktugg]

congratulations!..very well work...seems so nice*nice environment!:)

[Dija]

Beautiful!! I love the mood.

[jay7347]

Wow...this is just a stunning piece of work. Beautiful and haunting in a style I could look at forever...
-jay
5*

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