The Journey Begins Challenge (2D) Entry: Dehong.He

[MVDB]

welcome on board and good luck to ya!

[hdhcg]

http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/12/11172/11172_1147253544_medium.jpg (http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/12/11172/11172_1147253544_large.jpg)

I've thought about the image when I read the imformation of the CGChallenge, but so sorry I delayed some time for the job reason.
From today I will show you the image I drew before and I'll draw after. Welcome you giving the valuable advice.

It's so excited as I thought the scene that the character will face. So I directly drafted the Sketch on PHOTOSHOP and it's very rough. This is one of my habit of drawing, yet I weren't always acting like that. Just sometimes I felt too detailed in the fore period would let you lose the passion in the later. I like adding some temporary thought into the image in the process of drawing. Though it will make me fall in a terrible fix to deal with the whole effect at last. But I still delight in it and never get tired of it.

[Quills]

Hey - your sketch has plenty of energy and life - will look forward to see how the journey emerges and how it develops! enjoy!

[PapaRaf]

:eek: hu ho...i have a bad feeling about this...:rolleyes:

-Raphaël

[hdhcg]

Thanks,better will follow.

[hdhcg]

http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/12/11172/11172_1147264417_medium.jpg (http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/12/11172/11172_1147264417_large.jpg)

This step is simple, just putting some color roughly.

[walrus]

I can't quite tell what's going on just yet, but it's got a lot of energy to it and a really nice flow... Looking forward to seeing what it turns into! :) Good luck!

-mike

[MrFreeman]

Great sketches and colour studies...

It looks quite abstract when looking close up, but made complete sense when you look at the thumbnail.

Keep up the good work and I look forward to seeing how this turns out... :) :)

[hdhcg]

Thanks,better will follow.

[hdhcg]

http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/12/11172/11172_1147512684_medium.jpg (http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/12/11172/11172_1147512684_large.jpg)

Journey is often full of danger and difficulties instead of smooth all the way. What I want to describe is a ship in the voyage meeting the misfortune that no one ever met before. Sounds so incredible! :) Maybe here you could see nothing at all, don't worry, just like the journey, surprise always appears at last...

[hdhcg]

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First I'll depict the waves. It's not the common ones, but composed of fish-man troops. Also they are not the fish-man in fact but the water in the shape of fish-man!

[hdhcg]

http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/12/11172/11172_1147513457_medium.jpg (http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/12/11172/11172_1147513457_large.jpg)

Here need to show the "water surface". I designed fish-man roughly and invert the image, adjust the layers to color dodge then put it on the canvas.
At last drew the details.

[hdhcg]

http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/12/11172/11172_1147513753_medium.jpg (http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/12/11172/11172_1147513753_large.jpg)

There's another coming troops whipping up huge waves of fish-man. Guess who are they? My design is troops of ---knights.

[hdhcg]

http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/12/11172/11172_1147513980_medium.jpg (http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/12/11172/11172_1147513980_large.jpg)

They're the knights troops which composed of clouds. And here is the beginning fo the war.

[hdhcg]

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They're the knights troops which composed of clouds. And here is the beginning fo the war.

[hdhcg]

http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/12/11172/11172_1147514144_medium.jpg (http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/12/11172/11172_1147514144_large.jpg)

The War Chariots

[hdhcg]

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All these incredible things are met by a sailing ship in a long voyage. We can imagine what will happen next. And the people who witness the misfortune will leave the strongest impression through life. Human beings appear to small and helpless. I divided the whole image into three parts to promote the plots: the sinking ship in the distance, the fleeing ship in the middle and close up two people fleeing and falling into the water,one breathes deeply and another is frightened to death.

[hdhcg]

http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/12/11172/11172_1147515284_medium.jpg (http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/12/11172/11172_1147515284_large.jpg)

All these incredible things are met by a sailing ship in a long voyage. We can imagine what will happen next. And the people who witness the misfortune will leave the strongest impression through life. Human beings appear to small and helpless. I divided the whole image into three parts to promote the plots: the sinking ship in the distance, the fleeing ship in the middle and close up two people fleeing and falling into the water,one breathes deeply and another is frightened to death.

[adonihs]

this is friggen way cool man..i love this picture, definetly keep this one going, i want to see the end result

[PuiArt]

O.O Wow! really really awsome and vibrate sky man! #drools#

[BlackDidThis]

This is completely OUTSTANDING!

Fantastic image and very well thought through.

As I look at the little guy (The dark set of blobs in the bottom... in the sea.. that s a human right? If not two?) has done serious amount of swimming considering the ships distance and the weather.
But I can understand your reasons of such a placement. It will add so much to the story telling.

My only comment is more like a question actually.
In the areas where the waters darken on the left bottom corner seem to suggest that there is a shore, or that the water is shallow there...
Is it such?

If not... I guess you particularly didn't want to create both a reason for a shade and/or consider a retracting arc-wave on it some where in order for it to be able to be a part of such a wavy night or not... right?
(Because from someone who has such a successful depiction of a monstrous wave, I wouldn't expect a lack of observation)

So that just brings me to ask if you are intending on making the whole sea shake from the battle, Or just that particular mound. (Such as to emphasize the magnificence this supernatural activity? And not to kind of simbolise a storm into a sailors myth)


I am simply enjoying keeping the image open in another window and watching over it.
It's just amazing... and very, very beautiful.


Will definitely want to follow up on this one.


BEST of luck
and PLEASE finish it.



Black

[jevinart]

beautiful texture and motion -- the heaviness of the wave and the tension from your composition is wondeful! can feel the suspense....

[beelow]

I so love the motion in this painting, This is eye candy, good luck with it!:thumbsup:

[notpill]

:eek: stunning!! the sketches, the water, the horses... absolutely amazing.
I really need to follow up this masterpiece.
:thumbsup:

[walrus]

Those horse sketches are just amazing! Your drawing is really spectacular. Compositionally, I'm having a bit of trouble knowing where to look. There are so many things going on all over the canvas and all about eh same size, my eye is just bounging around a lot and isn't naturally settling anyhwere. I'm not sure whether it was your intent, to make it so chaotic, maybe it just fits the theme of what you're trying to convey. But anyhow, thought I'd just share that thought. Good luck with the rest of it, there are really some amazing details here.

-mike

[anticz]

Looking good. I think this is going to be a great piece when it's done. My only comment is I think the focal point of the image is a little ambigous. I'm not sure what the main subject here is. The water has a nice feel to it and the canvas looks deep though. Great job so far.

[Slav]

pure visual eye candy. keep up the great work. :thumbsup:

[Quills]

Beautifully painted. Agree re: multiple focal points, which may be helped with lighting emphesis etc in future colourings.

Feels like we are in the middle of an epic event or adventure, but not sure whether I feel like it is just beginning...?

Good stuff tho,

Q

[MichaelCTY]

This is a powerful piece ,with strong atomoshpere, great brush works as well
cheers man, wanna see it finish soon

[hdhcg]

Hello,everyone. Thank you for your encouragement and comment. Following is the answer to some friends' question.

[hdhcg]

This is completely OUTSTANDING!

Fantastic image and very well thought through.

As I look at the little guy (The dark set of blobs in the bottom... in the sea.. that s a human right? If not two?) has done serious amount of swimming considering the ships distance and the weather.
But I can understand your reasons of such a placement. It will add so much to the story telling.

My only comment is more like a question actually.
In the areas where the waters darken on the left bottom corner seem to suggest that there is a shore, or that the water is shallow there...
Is it such?

If not... I guess you particularly didn't want to create both a reason for a shade and/or consider a retracting arc-wave on it some where in order for it to be able to be a part of such a wavy night or not... right?
(Because from someone who has such a successful depiction of a monstrous wave, I wouldn't expect a lack of observation)

So that just brings me to ask if you are intending on making the whole sea shake from the battle, Or just that particular mound. (Such as to emphasize the magnificence this supernatural activity? And not to kind of simbolise a storm into a sailors myth)


I am simply enjoying keeping the image open in another window and watching over it.
It's just amazing... and very, very beautiful.


Will definitely want to follow up on this one.


BEST of luck
and PLEASE finish it.



Black


TO:BlackDidThis Till now everything is still uncertain to what you have seen. I'll change most of the things now you've seen for the final image.
The darken areas on the left bottom corner I want to design two extremely fatigued people whose lifeboat has sinked. They've used up their strength on a floating wood and kept screaming towards the little ship which was hard to protect itself distance.

[hdhcg]

TO:walrus , anticz and QUILLS You are quite right that the focal points of the image are too dispersed now. I'll change it in the future. I think I'll focalize the point on two powers, cloud and sea, facing each other. No one knows why they fight again and again. Actually they are proceeding an epic great war. (Here I humanize them to avoid the single theme that only describes just sinking ships and fleeing people under a storm)

So my feeling is, a war between cloud and sea is arising! Black clouds get lower and lower to cover the sea, and the waves raise higher and higher against the sky. They'll duel in death. Well the Journey happens to meet them. Journey is just beginning and so is the misfortune. Could you agree with me?
The emphasis of the image is the third power metaphorize in it. That is the strong conviction of human beings to surive from the war between two powerful forces. Though the beings look so small and weak, almost have no chance to win. But I believe they'll be the last winner. Or they'll disappear in the sea for ever.... That depends on each watcher's imaging. Hope everyone who see the image may give it a beautiful end.

[hdhcg]

Thank you for your encouragement and comment
If you still have questions, pls post it up I'm willing to answer you and thank you so much for your help. I'll try my best to finish it, thank you for your sharing again.

[domclubb]

really nice painting and great sketches. looks like a classical painting. very nice indeed. good luck

[akahraman]

wow... I feel really happy to see this kind of work...It is very sumptuous and i love your technic here. Very well done...:thumbsup:

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[hdhcg]

http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/12/11172/11172_1147777434_medium.jpg (http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/12/11172/11172_1147777434_large.jpg)

I watched several clips of the movie about the surfers these few days. Wow, It's really crazy! The crazy sea just made my spine tingle!

[hdhcg]

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At distance is the troops have started the war. They are warring in blood

[hdhcg]

http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/12/11172/11172_1147859486_medium.jpg (http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/12/11172/11172_1147859486_large.jpg)

Two people on the left bottom corner,I just drew a little to see the effect. Seems the second is better

[hdhcg]

http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/12/11172/11172_1147859603_medium.jpg (http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/12/11172/11172_1147859603_large.jpg)

The forming of the clouds troops~ haha

[hdhcg]

http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/12/11172/11172_1147859829_medium.jpg (http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/12/11172/11172_1147859829_large.jpg)

Here should be an embryo of the final effect

[BlackDidThis]

I have not only gotten my answer by your posted message above...
But now I can definately SEE what you mean.


As "Eye Candy" as it may apear, as "Busy" as it may apear; I have to confess that I loved this image and I am definately enjoying following up on it.


For a big change in my usual nature... I have nothing to criticise :sad:
the adition of the boat saved everything... Well no not everything.. unfortunately it saved no one... I meant the image. An adition could have worked only so well.



GOOD LUCK!
(And FINISH this!)


Black

[hdhcg]

Thank you for your supporting from the very beginning, I'll show you and all friends the best image of mine.

[Greatto]

Great WORK! one of my favorite!
___________
Journey 3d (http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=338454)

[krishna-fu]

it looked interresting~~good luck!:)

[adonihs]

i still think this is one of my favs, you better finish this!

[BlackDidThis]

Actually I kinda liked the motion of the striking brush stroke on the top image.

Would it have looked better to replace the chariot with a more advancing one of your figures?


Well what ever you do, I would love to see it :)


Black

Edit;
HEY
What happened to the post of your image?
There was an update just a second ago!!!

[hdhcg]

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These few days I spent all the time on dealing with the details and the whole effect of the image. It's really my hardest task till now. And I felt like the people in my work and I were in the same boat. Fortunately I finished the entry. As for 'they' ,the people on the ship, and the entry, they still have long way to go, yes, their journey is just beginning......

[hdhcg]

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Detail 1

[hdhcg]

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Detail 2

[hdhcg]

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Detail 3

[hdhcg]

http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/12/11172/11172_1148704662_medium.jpg (http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/12/11172/11172_1148704662_large.jpg)

Detail 4

[hdhcg]

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Detail 5

[hdhcg]

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Detail 6

[hdhcg]

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Detail 7

[hdhcg]

http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/12/11172/11172_1148705660_medium.jpg (http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/12/11172/11172_1148705660_large.jpg)

" Marvellous Journey"done.

[hdhcg]

http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/12/11172/11172_1148705761_medium.jpg (http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/12/11172/11172_1148705761_large.jpg)

" Marvellous Journey"done.

[beelow]

Really lovely mood , motion, awesome image, Congrats and good luck with the judging!!!:thumbsup:

[hdhcg]

Thank you!~

[MichaelCTY]

Congratz on finishing this powerful piece dude, the brush stroke is awesome. the atomoshpere is great as well. lovely!
cheers dude, best luck for u

[Gojira]

:eek: Whaouuu Very impressive picture... Good luck for the vote. What is your Resolution work ?

[meng-xin]

really really awsome and vibrate sky man!

[Squibbit]

argh , the details really make the pic and they're too small to see!

thanks for posting the closeups, great pic!




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[hdhcg]

http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/12/11172/11172_1148746434_medium.jpg (http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/12/11172/11172_1148746434_large.jpg)

One day in 1502, a great sailor's standing on the ship and enjoying the sunny weather and quiet sea. Suddenly a gale's blowing and the sky's getting dark. The compass stopped working，a flame came down from the sky，and a wave 1 00 to 200 feet high carried the ship about a mile away. This ship lost control and be pushed by the wave. Fortunately it didn't sink after several days' jolt. And so strange that the storm stopped in a sudden and the weather return to calm and tranquil quickly. The great sailor is just Christopher Columbus. And this sea area called Bermuda triangle from then.

This story gives me inspiration of artistic creation. In my image I humanizes nature into fish-man waves and knights clouds. They are the gods of sea and sky and proceeding an epic war that never ends even to date.

Compare to the strong and powerful nature, human is so weak and small. But humans never stop the feet of exploration. Till now almost every inch of the earth has left the footprints of theirs. Even the universe and other stars have been visited by them. Human's spirit of exploration is worth admiring and just because of it, the people's society could keep advancing and become stronger and stronger. But at the same time, nature is losing her mestery and dignity little by little.

I try to express the theme of the nature's mystery and human's exploration spirit. The sea is so magnificent and dangeous when she whips up huge waves to the sky. And the knights clouds are changeful and glorious riding on the horses. People on the ship is going to explore the unknow areas, unfortunately, they meet the war between the sea and sky at the very beginning. They are struggling and trying best to keep advancing. Maybe they will arrive at the destination safely, maybe they will meet more marvelous difficulties. No matter what happens, I believe that they will hold the nature in awe.
All right, that' all. Lots of thanks to all the CG friends, thank you for your support and advices. The work is done, but the journey is just beginning, hope everyone good luck!

[Slav]

very biblic in many ways. great execution man. best of luck. :)

[olive2d]

waw! There is an incredible athmosphere in your picture.
Congrats! it's a very impressive scene! :thumbsup:

[mutedOracle]

another wee ant just dropping by to say

:bowdown:BEAUTIFUL !!!

...I think this is where i'm suppose to say goodluck with the judging, but you don't need it this is a finalist fo sure!

[ahbeejieh]

Holy sh!+ man, this is in a league of it's own... You're definitely my favorite entry in this challenge. Hope you win this category, goodluck!

[hdhcg]

Thank you every friend to enjoy my image and left your words here,it's great honour to be praised by you! And welcome to visit my website to discuss and make friends with each other.
http://www.hdhcg.com/

Good luck to every friend!

[hdhcg]

:eek: Whaouuu Very impressive picture... Good luck for the vote. What is your Resolution work ?



To Gojira:
Thank you for your post,and good luck to your vote also.By the way,you asked me what is my Resolution work,so sorry I don't know what the 'resolution'means? does it means 'final' or sth else?hehe,waiting for your answer.Gook luck again!

[MDN67]

This is an incredible pic, the wave is awesome, it's a very great work good luck, but this is one of the best pic of this contest

[paperclip]

This is amazing- post a bigger version, pleeeasee......


I hope you're one of the winners! :love:

[Mythmaker]

I really like this a lot - it's tremendous piece of artwork! (does get lost a bit on the computer screen though!).

Hope to see you up there on the podium! Good Luck! :thumbsup:

[deadmanrip]

Great job ,i love it !

[OZOZOZ]

i'm really impressed with your work! :thumbsup: wonderful epic painting! good luck!:bounce:

[Intervain]

OH this one is an absolute masterpiece! MY favourite for sure! Congrats.:thumbsup:

[libidoh]

Awesome!帅就一个字！

[iamawizard]

really nice creatures

the fishman and the knights..

excellent details

nice concept 2

can feel the massiveness of the environment.

cool painting

good luck for the judging..


regards
Sivaprasad Velayudhan

[MasonRoberts]

WOW... This is definatly my favourite and where did it come from? I never noticed it untill this point! Fantastic style... I can learn something from you! :thumbsup:

Good luck, a winner for sure!

[elgrozni]

Awsome painting!! I'm begging you for a bigger version or at least some close-ups!! Please.... :)

[elgrozni]

Damn, close-ups are already there, I just didn't look at previous pages... sorry for that :D

[vader]

woww... amazing!! :eek: congratulations and good luck!

[medunecer]

Simply astounding. Amazing use of the medium. Congrats for your masterpiece!

[Dalton-Muniz]

Oh my God!! Masterpiece!! Man, the horses, the soldiers, the Water creatures..Oh my ...!!
Nothing left to say!:eek:
Congratulations!!And Good Luck!!

[kornel]

Grandious! Like a greek mith... I love it! :applause: :eek:

cheers: Kornél

[komsa]

Mammma mia! You are genuine monster of painting! It's great, congratulation and good luck on judging.

myJourney (http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/journey_begins/view_entries.php?challenger=10869)

[anzibon]

stunning.

~B

[burpy]

Awesome work! The composition and colours are great.:) Good luck with judging.

[liquif]

wonderful :buttrock:!!! one of the best images i have ever seen:applause:.
good luck

[webwings]

I love the concept.....the way you have captured the character of the waves is dramtic. beautifully executed! Well done!

[Sourgrapes]

This is such an amazing piece, I can't stop looking at it !!! Definately one of my favorites. ^^ It was awesome to see your process, thank you so much :) . I hope you get one of the top prizes!

[klyp]

Well done!
Best of luck!

[mutou]

amazing work!very nice and powerful~strong as usual~keep on and good luck~haha hope we meet again soon~come on:bounce: :bounce:

[JoanOfArt]

Beautiful work. Terrific dynamic motions. Good luck with the judging.

[cgoz]

this is like a priceless traditional painting.congrats, good luck with the results

[MoonVisionStudio]

Absolutely Amazing! Great concept, great colors, fabulous technique... a masterpiece.

[CyborgJA]

O-MIO-DIO!


I'm absolutely without words.

[sbv20]

This piece is truly epic. Amazing work.

Good luck with judging, my only concern is I am not entirely sure it represents the beginning of the journey, more like the middle. Just my interpretation, though.

[wyd1985]

It's a a a great pic i'v never seen!
You conjured with whit it.
You are my godliness...

[vampire5009]

哥们 太强了 希望以后能看到你更好的作品!!

支持中~~期待下一个作品的问世!!

[RainsonD]

It's perfect.really nice,I love so much.(my english is so poor……I am sorry! by easy words)

[robfin_china]

很厉害啊 兄弟 超佩服！

[hdhcg]

谢谢上面的几位兄弟，很高兴在这里见到大家~

[hdhcg]

Thank you every friend to enjoy my image and left your words here,it's great honour to be praised by you!

[meng-xin]

这儿也可以中文阿.支持！！中国的朋友回中国的贴就中文吧.这样交流的人就会更多！！

[wailssss]

so great! 牛逼 !! is photoshop?:eek:

[hdhcg]

so great! 牛逼 !! is photoshop?:eek:

yes,photoshop.haha.

[MrFreeman]

Congratulations! Dehong

a true masterpiece and definitely a worthy winner

:) :) :)

[notpill]

woooooohaaaaa:thumbsup:
congratulations!
What a great image you create. Absolute stunning work!

[HitParader]

Incredible work - congratulations!!

[iamawizard]

worthy...

awesome work

[Rebeccak]

Congratulations! A fantastic image! :thumbsup:

Cheers,

~Rebeccak

[MichaelZHsee]

gosh~:eek: i totally missed this one~congrates to u for the grand prize mate~:thumbsup: :thumbsup:

[Mythmaker]

Congratulations! - A well deserved win - It really is an awesome pic! :thumbsup:

...hmm... come to think of it - it's a good job I mentioned to Mibus your entry wasn't in the lineup! Hehe ;)

[paperclip]

He! :applause: Congratulations on a very worthy win! It's an amazing entry, my jaw dropped when I first saw it and you should be very proud of having produced such a beautiful piece.

:beer:

[andreasrocha]

I think this is the best winning entry of all the Challenges. Truly beautiful! Congratulations!

[Reverence]

Congratulations hdhcg well deserved!!.. really a well done compositon.. the colors are just amazing..:bounce:

and an outstanding concept.. the sea wows me the most and the amount of Details on the piece...

[ldgree]

My god... this is the best piece of the art in this contest ( 2d and 3d )
...... wonderful!

Congratulations for the first place !!

I hope see someday a poster of this work.. i will buy one ^^


LD

[SideAche]

Beautiful work - Congrats on the Win!

[walrus]

Congratulations on your great piece and your award, hdhcg! Wonderful work!

-mike

[Istmo]

Wow, an incredible work of art. Very very impressive and one of the coolest work I´ve ever seen in this forum. Congratulations!!:thumbsup:

[MartinNielsen]

You're truly a master. Please accept my deepest respect and envy.

[Dalton-Muniz]

Oh my God!! Masterpiece!! Man, the horses, the soldiers, the Water creatures..Oh my ...!!
Nothing left to say!:eek:
Congratulations!!And Good Luck!!

I said before, "Nothing left to say", I was wrong, Is still left to say: CONGRATULATIONS DEHONG HE!! You really deserved the prize!!Your image is sensational!!!

[Zork]

My congratulations, dude.
REALLY AWESOME PIC.

Cherrs, I wish you all the best in future works.

[AndHolzmeister]

it looks fantastic, but i can't tell anything about the details, since i could not find a better resolution image, it´s too small to tell...

[MoonVisionStudio]

Congratulations Sir, this is truly a measterpiece in every sense of the word.

[artvandeley]

Congratulations and sincere thanks for this well-deserved and worthy winner-piece!!

[BlackDidThis]

Wow! ... This is just FANTASTIC news!!! (Yeah heard it a little late... Was really busy)

I was so fearing that you wouldn't be given the grand prize I personally thought you had had deserved.

This challange is full of winners.... most of them being people I had wanted to see in the list. But for the grand prize I would have not been as happy seeing it any body elses hands.

Congratulations!



Black

[JRBRAZ]

Congratulation Dehong :beer:

Could you post a bigger version of the image? I would love to use like a wallpaper and love to see all the details better :bounce:

[hdhcg]

Thanks everyone,I'm sorry I'm late,I have just come back on business.
When I browsed the CG Society news page yesterday , I saw the link of the winner announcement .I clicked the link.

'Oh my god!My name is on it' I shouted it.
It's a great honor for me to be appreciated by guys .I lvoe this contest，I made a lot
of friends in the contest.

So I 'll say Thanks a lot to you guys so much for the support, the couragement and
the kind words .Thank you very much.
Thanks my friend Michael ,he helped me uploaded my work at the last moment of
the contest .

Thanks again!

[adel3d]

Congradulations for the award.You really deserved it.:thumbsup:

[AWaqas]

Kinda stunned for 10 minutes looking at those close-up.. speechless.. hey!! Im looking at the winner!! Congratulation and thanks fot the close up, really need to see the strokes.

Hope to see you in the next challenge!! :thumbsup:

[Mordalles]

stunning! one of the best pieces ive ever seen! congrats, you truly deserved it. :applause:

[hdhcg]

Here're the 100% partial image, and a little GIF animation. So sorry that the original is too big to contain all the details. Hope you like them!
http://forum.coowow.com/noncgi/attach/2006/07/12/1152705113-userId-86-002.jpg

[hdhcg]

. ..............http://forum.coowow.com/noncgi/attach/2006/07/12/1152705177-userId-86-003.jpg

[hdhcg]

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http://forum.coowow.com/noncgi/attach/2006/07/12/1152705229-userId-86-004.jpg

[hdhcg]

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http://www.hdhcg.com/tu%20caise/000/动画111.gif

[Gball]

amazing work, good luck with the challenge

[notpill]

amazing work, good luck with the challenge

hem... Gball, Dehong here IT'S THE WINNER of the challenge.

Look here http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/journey_begins/

:thumbsup:

[MartinNielsen]

Well, you ment it well, Gball :applause:

[TR4d3r]

gz to you..very good work work

[Lifthz]

congrats, I knew it would be tough to beat. :) That working is more than amazing, it inspires.

[Allerag]

Wonderful peice! - moving and inspiring.

[oceanbluesky]

Whoohoo!! Congratulations Dehong! Such an absolutely gorgeous inspiring image! Can't wait to read your tutorials. Beautiful work. Cheers!

Edit: Could I ask you a favor? Would you mind describing the various brushes you used? Those for the detailing seem very "dry" and I'm just wondering what settings you may have used in Photoshop to achieve such a traditional, painterly look. Also, are you using a sponge brush to create the speckled background spots behind many of your characters?

It may be asking a lot, but, would you be able to export and share your Photoshop brushes? (If you saved them??)

Congrats again! (Really like your deep purples and browns in works on your website, too. Very different.)

[ice0425]

really good work! Hi,friend,congratulate!!

[fufg007]

这贴回晚了。。。洋文不太好就是找不到啊。继续支持！

[NinjaA55N]

Im just downloading ur gif file, so that I could see how the magic works :) This piece is well deserved a winner one. Such a great piece that I could say its one of the best I have ever seen. So many details, right color scheme and the story in it... masterpiece for sure. I hope to see u in next challenges as well. Best regards!

[Muesli]

Holy.... wow...

[Smik]

Very unusually it is beautiful, the internal mood of a picture is transferred, is simply remarkable! My congratulations!!! :)

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