The Journey Begins Challenge (2D) Entry: Jan Zander

[hanzen]

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hi, everybody!

i am so happy my pal jakyll told my about this site. after seeing all this fantastic artworks and this amazing cg-arts platform my old fire was about to burn again!

this challenge is really reanimating my drawings/paintings feelings.

i first thought it was a bit late for entering, but i still cant wait to see how far i get ;)


about my picture:

just started with some quick pencil sketches, and a bit colouring.
im quite not sure what comes out at the end, but definitely something with rocks and sky. ;)

[hanzen]

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just some more sketches

[hanzen]

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some colors

[hanzen]

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here i tried some compositing for the depths feeling. mmh, have to do some more i think... ;)

[Jakyll]

Very well! In no case too late!
I see, which you make yourself very much thought over the composition.
And which you do not shrink from yourself to try different beginnings out.
I look forward to your work like a nail on a hammer!
Good idea with the edge of the pictures. Looks thereby like genuine water color.
Thus, still much fun with the Contest.
Read you from the horn on the fingertips do not hold to fire here one show without same!

[hanzen]

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thess are compositing sketches of an ohter idea i have.

[hanzen]

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here i want you to show, where my roots are. drawing with pencils. ;)

[hanzen]

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some deatails of the pencil drawing. i like rough styles with lots of lines.

[hanzen]

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another close view

[hanzen]

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today i'll finish the background. i hope the legs of my timetable are big enough to hold the great weight of my colourideas ;)

[Jakyll]

I see, you pack it on at the root!

With first regard I thought, that should be a tree. With many roots.

But on the second view I recognized, which stands here someone on the shoulder somewhat. Something with thick veins at the neck and at the shoulders. Good idea. You uses the second view fully! Torn which you make there!


Are strained, as becomes with color.
Go on, Stumpf!

[Quills]

Lovely sketch / hatching - like the scale of the tree to the character - tho I can't quite tell where they are heading yet...

Q

[hanzen]

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This is my final lineart. ok its not really up to the detail. but if you just take a look at your watch you know why ;)

[hanzen]

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this is my beginning with colors. i want the horizon very narrow and parallel to the rock. mmh, but im not quite sure if i should glue a litte bit more sky to it?!. what do you think?

greets,
hanzen

[webwings]

I love the look of these roots and the pencil lines.

[Jarouch]

First I like your nontraditional approach to Challenge theme. Good Luck. Jarouch

[hanzen]

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some more colors. still a lot to do.

[hanzen]

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put some textures on it. and some more ecolours. more tomorrow ;)

[walrus]

i like the picture so far a lot, but i find the decorative elments added in the corner quite distracting. It esepcially makes the bottom person really hard to read. But also, given that there's little other contrast on the edges, I find myself looking at them more than the picture itself.
Good luck with it!

-mike

[hanzen]

thanks for the critique mike. your right, the decorative elements draw the focus to much from the picture. i wanted to create a more interesting feeling away from the black bottom. dont know how far i will get with that ornaments, maybe ill kick em later. and i kicked the bottom person. it just wanted to play around with a few placements that look interesting. i hope the next post will be an improvement ;)
jan

[hanzen]

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this is a detail from my next forthcoming wip. jakyll told my that i dont have to wonder about a low visitors counter, when i always post 3 updates in a row;)

good night,
well see in about 4 hours ;)

[hanzen]

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heres another closer look.

[hanzen]

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i keep going. but still i have a little problem. in my opinion my journey isnt "beginning". if you know what i mean. i thing its already started. or in the "middle" of a journey. also i have to add more "epic" feeling to it. mmh... am i too strict?! ...or "kleinkarriert" ?

[hanzen]

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i shrunk and added some more people. also i put some blue light to the bottom. the two trees on the sides in the foreground should give the picture a feeling of more depth where the travellers coming from

[Jakyll]

Insanity!!! If I were a Wurzelsepp, I would stick the picture expressions and me on the embossment. So that all could see, who the true master of the ädrigen root is. Only sound and smoke in the face of the root is the celebrated people of the love on the way by space and time. I love your root!!!

[hanzen]

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worked on the upper right rock. and put some details in it. added the boards. mmh, i have to think a little bit of adding more people in it.

[webwings]

Looking good. I do like the texural effect.

[hanzen]

thanx webwings, i just try out things. Although i used photoshop a lot over the years, this is my first "painting". so i still have a lot to learn about;)

greets,
hanzen

[Jakyll]

Which text? I do not find, which you should write in text. The tendency in your work is grandios. I times about an old village dreamed, in which from the chimneys so thick smoke came, which humans played there with chess tears in the eyes got. I mean, the smoke from the dream have in the most distant sense which with your roots to do. The root of all strategy is very similar to chess.
Do you understand which I mean?

[hanzen]

no. i dont know what you mean. chess is a good game. but not when you were three people.

[Jakyll]

That is not good for your picture. You must understand which the sense is. Between your root composition and the strategically important list of the units.

It is not so difficult at all to understand. Take the farmers and take the first course. It is obvious, which your roots are to be equated with the farmers. From the depth Kraft, with that your picture comes itself regarding colors and composition as on a field. Each course can be the latter. Bring harmony in connection with your trunk. The trunk needs to suck the roots to the water. As chess and humans need.

But you are right. Not three pieces!

[hanzen]

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build a bridge and some details. goodnight

[Jakyll]

he hanzen? what is going on with your root? You have no more time to grow it! Post your final fast. I have a god feeling down of my. You stated at the beginning, which wants to draw a due tree. With many roots. And now? Now you drew it. Although you drew it for the Contest, you drew him for the Contest. Draw it! I think you will win. All is in it! Tree, peoples and water with a half ship. Perfect. Post faster then the postman do his post into the postfach.

[hanzen]

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just addet some small details and corrections

[Jakyll]

Hi, jan. I love the Green in it!

[hanzen]

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hi,
this is my first challenge and also my first cg picture i've ever painted. during this event i have learned so much about brushes, photoshop shortcuts and other important things about painting on a computer ,without a dout, i just can call myself being a winner, yet for myself! the cg forums is what i was looking for a long time. here are so many people who give me power to do more that im just looking foreward to improve myself doing my next picture. :)

about my picture: i like the idea of letting the viewer decide for himself about whats going on in the picture. where are they coming from? what does the ship mean? whats about the guy in the ropes? i just wanted to create something athmosphearical to think about.

maybe my challenge isnt transferred ideal. but at the end when i compare mine to the winning one, i will see where my mistakes are and whats to attend to on the next challenge ;)


with kind regards,
jan



ps: in germany we say: there isnt a master fallen from the sky so far!
(but in germany we say it in german words ;) )

[cystar]

Back to the roots - great work, Hanzen. I like the mood of this picture! First of all the ligthning in the background, which pictured the hope of the beginning journey!

[webwings]

Beautiful texture. Looks great. Well done!

[hanzen]

thx webwings, thx cystar for your comments!

the more often i look at the picture, the more often i have to realize that on the next chellange ill need to start a little earlier. somehow, i think its not finished yet ;)

greetz,
hanzen

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