The Journey Begins Challenge (2D) Entry: Guo Jian

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time can make misunderstanding,a future man in an old age shows his difference between people,and he will be think as a stranger or deviationism.
but how can this happen?
the only way is back to the passed age to face the challenge of all kind of conflicts.
so let's begin the journey.

[Vahn]

yo welcome to the challenge :D :wavey:

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a close sketch,

[beelow]

Sup Guo Jian, another entrant that I can give a pounding hehe, good luck dude!:D

[MichaelZHsee]

welcome to the challenge tyin.its gonna be a fantastic entry ,i can tell:scream:good luck

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begin to make the clear figures design.

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turn around and keep drawing.

[Ramitxon]

This one looks promishing, looking forward to see more. Good luck mate.

[rawwad]

Great start! I love compo and characters. I look foward to final pic, Good luck mate! :thumbsup:

[TheFirstAngel]

keep it up, looking promssing :)

[anzibon]

the only question i would have is this? does this show a journey beginning? seams more like a climax. but i love the composition. just thought it was better to say that now rather than later.

have fun,
~B

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the main scene is done,and the story is in my mind..maybe I will tell it in the next post?hehe

[Neubius]

very nice start man.

[domclubb]

i love the characters in this. The dark man is great. I wonder if the journey theme could be made a bit clearer though?

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I flip the image and beging to add the main character.
and ad the question---how to refer to the :journey begins ,I must add a character in robe to show you the path to the path behind the crowd.
c&c are welcomed.

[MichaelZHsee]

my goodness~fantastic mood and coloring~is this suppose to be final coloring?coz this seems like u r still in coloring wip.great progress here btw:thumbsup:

[beelow]

Hahaha, Guo I think u may have made a mistake, LOL. Goofy Asian, haha, jk! :D

I like ru update dude, I am interested in what u do next keep it up!:thumbsup:

[Nigio]

The colours are coming in a very nice way, and so the light. The whole scene is very dynamic too. I´ll be looking forward to further developments. Good work!

[TheFirstAngel]

awesome designs! simpy great! :drool::thumbsup:

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I adjust the color of the whole pic,and finished robot,I give it a power weapon to release the energy to stop the people who want to close the queen-necromancer.

[FIDUCIOSE]

Hmm leave the past and begin new journey beyond the path next to her, sound's interesting!
What about she choosing to be unhuman and leave the human way behind to be queen of necromancer and say something like " if you wanna be my presious. Be my corpse, I will use you all ha ha ha ha", this can be the beginning of unhuman journey too.

Wait for ya progress!

[rawwad]

Excellent working! as always :D , you are so fast, it looks great! keep working :thumbsup:

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and thanks for commets to my progress.
then it should be clear to attach the main title of the challenge--the journey!the flying journey!
and the in the left side of my pic,the space ship is ready to fly,fly to the next planet--maybe the earth?
and this planet is just a failure test of the revolution of the human.
the next one will be better?
the necromancers are the travellers of the worlds,they change the culture of the planet to a new form--a form to can accept them,but this time it seems to be a failure--people are worship another gods who are in the opposite religion.so the necromancer must leave.

[domclubb]

i love this. It's coming along really well. i would maybe get rid of the object to the left of the robot as it seems to divide the composition sharply down the centre and "cut" the characters off from the ship. This is a tiny detail though and this is a brilliant painting. Keep it up.

[Muttonhead]

This is a very cool piece. The thing I like about it is the way you have created an almost "classical painting composition" with the characetrs bodies all pointing up towards the main characters.

The only problem is, the piece is split in half. The half on the right is great, but I wonder if it would have been better if we had gotten to see more stuff off to the right, blanacing the composition. The left side is the rocket ship, and seems to take on more importance than is neccessary.

I recommed cropping the left side and downplaying the rocket, then adding some more "stuff" on the right. You want to keep the rocket, for sure, but focus on the characters. I hope you don't mind, I have done a quick paintover suggestion:

http://seanandrewmurray.com/rocket_suggestion.jpg

Anyways, just a thought. Great stuff!

[authentic]

Even the thme is not my prefered one, I must say that's beautiful. Love and recognize your style every time.

I agree with sean that it is too symetrical. I also find the upper part of the broken sword isn't readable. Moreover we don't understand why it is broken. If it come from the robot, he must have a less straight pose I think.

[ramy badie]

This is absolutely gorgeous, I can't stop looking at it. The lighting is incredible and the overall mood of the piece is just great. I do like it better after you changed the composition, I really have nothing left to criticize, other than the position of the guy with the broken sword, I'm just not sure what he's doing exactly? I just don't understand why he would be craning his arm like that. He seems pretty expressionless too considering his sword just got cut in half.

Anyway that's just minor stuff, and it took me about 10 minutes of looking at it to even notice what he was doing at all. The picture just kinda left me in a trance, it must be the forces of darkness...

[FlaminGlow]

I like the mood of your work the idea is great and colors are so wonderful i agree to the upper comment, i only suggest you make it more clear that the big man is protecting the girl may be you change his pose and position to a better one.

keep up.:eek:

[beelow]

Nice work guo, no crits aside from the ones made!:thumbsup:

[anzibon]

cool. the rocket answered my question. i am at peace and left to take in the eye candy you have laid before me. and it is good.

~B

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thanks for the comments last day!
I am glad to know ther are so many powerful readers in this challenge forum,so I can learn more painting skill to develop myself!
so...
I try some new adjust in my pic.
1.reduce the size of the rocket ,
2.rotate it to right to aviod the whole pic turn to one side.
3. add the corner of the left wall to guide the force or the line to up and right.
then I add the 3 walls of horror to give the more meaning to the theme(kingkong like?haha)
4.waiting for my next step...and more your advice!!

[toongo]

Guo jian come in again !Great start!Good luck on the challenge !:cool:

[Muttonhead]

YEah man! Now it's looking much better! Great stuff! Actually, I didn't even notice the "guide" the first time, but he is an awesome character...... make sure he doesn't get lost, maybe have his left hand really stick out further, breaking the plane of the rocket ship, and contrasting against the bright color of the rocket.

Can't wait to see the final product!

[Zephyri]

Hi Tyin, I have been admiring this piece for long time now, so I thought I'd add my praise finally! Love the new composition, it has much more flow to it, and the scene is more readable. Love the new details in the backgound too, they are great, and I like the openness of the top right corner.

Your whole story, and the death-like guide is very appealing and quite different from a lot of the entries I've seen. If I had to crit anything, it would be the man striking with the sword, his pose feels very unnatural... have you tried actually swinging a make believe sword in that pose? I would imagine it's quite difficult. But I also know how hard i can be changing something like that too.

All in all a great piece!

[Rooma]

Nice work,man..I like the colours so much and the design of the page..but I have just one comment on the characters but I dunno if I should be telling you this when you've come this far :D...Guo,I think the characters needed to be more dynamic! like why is the robot dude standing still like that?? and also the chick I think could be more dynamic y'know? to give the impression that there is a "Journey" going on...anyway overall I think it looks GreEAAat..and I loOOove the rocket behind them and the whole theme is very cool.

will be following this thread

all the best

RoOma

[Nomad]

I like the idea and the mood :thumbsup:


Great work so far :bounce: keep working :wip: and good luck :)

[MrFreeman]

Great work Guo

Loved your entry for the spectacular challenge and yet this is even better

Looking forward to the next developments :) :)

[NinjaA55N]

hi there! stopping by to say greetings on ur thread. Very nice pic so far, cool elements and characters, just a bit too monochromatic with the grey color in my opinion. Im waiting for something pop-out a bit, come to the first plan. keep up the good work and cya around!

[tAstyBITs]

Looks great so far, but how far will you go. Time will tell....,time will tell.

I just wanded to give you praise, good luck.

[Fijgum]

incredible awesome.

i love it, the dark atmosphere, the form of the.. mountains with the statues, wah, nearly everything.

the only thing i found a little not-as-perfect-as-the-rest is the right arm of the robot.
it looks too... static, it doesnt look as the robot just smashed the sword of the soldier...

btw, your picture has made me post my first comment :)

[rawwad]

Great composition Guo! I looks much better, I love chracters and enviroment lot, ship looks great too. Keep working! :thumbsup:

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now the coloring is near an end.
the whole pic is under my control,hehe.
I change the pose of the female character, it seem to say goodbye to the brutel world that she once loved so much.
also the hand of the sword-holding of the fighter below.
the mask of the dark robot is adjusted in a little.
finished the corner of the side with a hard-battle.
and youmust notice the path refer to the rocket-spaceship is divided into more parts,so the "journey road" is more clear to us.
and finally I added the cloudy sky with some launching spce ships that have left before the queen.

so my progress has at this step.the next is more adjustings!

keeping advice me!!

and thanks again to the post above!

good luck!

[beelow]

Wow, jeez! Nice update! Maybe a bit more separation, just a tad with the characters center from the background. Keep at it dude!:thumbsup:

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color adjust.

[Jori]

One of my favs pics here, nice concept. I just think, if i still can say anything at this point, that the lazer beam behind the girl (coming from this "dark lord") is way to bright, it distracts the eye of what really matters the most: the girl. She is the main point, in my opinion. Maybe in stead of a withe lazer beam, a yellow one or more like the jets smokes in the sky?

[MDN67]

Very nice pic, with many detail and amazing ambiance, very good job

[rawwad]

WoW Guo! That´s beautiful! I love it, great scene after you made top part. Now is it much colosal, also colors are great. Keep working :applause:

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at last,I finished it.
and I give the corner of the sky a bright opening to prevent the whole pic falling into grey.and low the contract of the background.
en,it spend me a afternoon to do those.
hope you like it.
keep advice me even if it has been the fianl one.(I will adjust if nessary.

[Ramitxon]

Fantastic work tyin, you made it fast! One of the best works here, the lighting is masterly executed. I feel like a slow snail compared to you. Good luck at the end my friend.

[CoreyArtE]

Tyin, theres so much going on in your piece, its fantastic. Goodluck my friend, I've always been a fan of your work.If I may ask, what brushes do you use ?

[rawwad]

FINAL? WOW, you are so fast. Again first, how you do it, damn :eek: Excellent piece! I love it , everything in it is great, but most I like color atmoshere. Congratulations mate and good luck with judging! :applause:

[ahbeejieh]

Congrats with this. Looks great man. I think the robot looks a bit stiff but I'm sure that's what you really intended for it to look. Anyway, goodluck with this. Fast? I think that's an understatement :) ~peace

[MoonVisionStudio]

Great image!

[Muttonhead]

Whoa! Big changes since last I looked! nice finish! GOod luck!

-Sean

[CaveatScoti]

Outstanding work this, plenty going on. I like the edgy lighting, and what really drew my eye were the beautiful retro lines on the rocket ship. Nice work- good luck!

[Alouette]

:) then :thumbsup: so :applause:!

amazing work!

[Atris]

Hi! I really like your work! I have no crits at all. Congratulations!
I wish you good luck in the next stage of the challenge! :)

[dzygn]

Mighty Beautiful!! Give Bright Spot Light To Centre Characters And Darken Crowd Behind ... The Face Expression Of Knight In The Front Too Relax... We Love To See Your Final Image Soon..again ! Keep The Burning Spirit!!!

[NinjaA55N]

congratulations on finished piece already! u have done it really well, so good luck in the finish line! :) best regards!

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I make a space edtion for the copy.
a little bit future space war feeling.
hope you like it.

[ramy badie]

I can't tell which one I prefer, I guess I wish there was something in between xD I feel like I prefer the new one a little bit maybe, but I feel like I wish the color scheme was somewhere in between. Regardless though, this is absolutely awesome, I LOVE this. I've been a huge fan of your work for some time now, and this image is really a treat for me. Congrats on an awesome image.

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and I make a decision to make the wall to a door to begin the queen's jounery.
and I make this a final one and begin to upload the work.

[beelow]

Good luck Guo! Superb piece!:buttrock:

[MrFreeman]

Hi Guo

yet another really great image - I prefer the latest edition as the space version is a little distracting (as you look at the ships in the sky) and the gate in the new version adds mystery and also makes it more dynamic.

Great work and good Luck!!

[Anarki3000]

wow Guo! it's unbelievable how you managed to make this kind of remake to the pic... For me, that's almost impossible..and they both look amazing.. good job.

[warpy]

outstanding job !!

try to do add more details and this will totaly rock.

[Vitreous]

There's something very classical and epic about this piece, its execution is excellent is well. I have to say though that it takes a bit of analysis to realise tyhat a journey is beginning, this is not to take away from the actual piece but maybe it could have reflected the theme a bit better.(edit, i jhust saw the'sapce' version and imo it reflects the theme better.....its clearer what is going on here...)

[Muttonhead]

Wow! You have done so much on this piece since I last looked at it. I definitely like the newest version better than the space version, although I like the image of those huge ships hovering nearby ominously. The red is a nice touch, but i am having a hard time figuring out where the warm light on the female's knee is coming from. I almost wonder if the sword should be emanating a warm glow.....

Good luck man, this is an awesome piece!

-Sean

[CaveatScoti]

Absolutely fantastic work, the detail, lighting and scope are all beautifully realized. I do have to say that I liked it better without the added archway, the repetition of form (of the spaceship's nose) and strong lighting tend to draw the eye to this feature a little too much.
But, I also have to say that with work like this in the challenge the rest of us will have to work hard indeed to hit this kind of standard.

[adonihs]

very cool! i like this one so much more than the other, not that it was bad at all..but this is just really dramatic and adds a lot more to the whole piece. great job dude..i like the red part too =)

[Jakyll]

Many years ago I read a book. It was the book of the joy. History reminds me of your Contest picture. That makes also joy for me. Much luck.

[alxcote]

woa! Cool picture man. First time I looked at this one. A little late to add some suggestions to this but I wanted to say that I love the characters.. to me this is the kicker. Good luck with your entry!

alx

[ilusiondigital]

Wohooo incredible, a great piece of art

[Tyranx]

wow, looks great!

[warpy]

great, you finished it.
i hope i am not double posting, but good luck :)

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