D&d Art, Sleepless (2D)

[megra]

ohh, thats so cool! how do you get that texture to it?

[Kirt]

Sleepless, I've missed you! I was just wondering what happened to you and now you post and run. :annoyed:

I hope life is treating you well and you have time to return to CGTalk and the challenges. I don't have to say it ... but I will anyway.

"I love this picture!" Exceptional colors and the usual Sleepless style. This one almost looks like a wood cut out though. Very cool how you did that. :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

[jeroentje]

Hey Sleeping Beauty, good to have you back here. With a very nice piece aswell :) What was it used for? For an ad, an article or a cover?

You with Illustrator??? Now you have me awake and curious! Please post some!

[wildsheepchase]

Great piece:love: I love the concept and the technique is excellent, as usual. Nice to see you back....would be cool if you could whip something up for the challenge, if you had time.
:beer:

[PsychedelicMind]

:D you're back! yeah, like kirt said, hope you are well :) Your artistic skills never cease to amaze me! Give the man stars!

[Sleepless]

megra- Thx man, Photoshop 7 standard textured brushes, set to about 50% opacity. Also found some good brushes on the Adobe site.
Kirt- hey mod thanks! I do my typical time consuming monochromatic underpainting, adjust the color and paint the color on top. 1 or 2 layers only.
jeroentje- It's a full page inside piece should be printed by now. I apologize for the elf woman's hands, ( they are the weakest part of this IMO). Illustrator- Not at your level that's for sure. I'll post something I did.
wildsheepchase - Challenge Hummm, yes I want to get back into those asap but I'm going to be super busy for a awhile. The challenges here brought about my swith to digital techniques, I'll be forever indebted.
PsychedelicMind- Thanks, I have missed this place.

[Tommy Lee]

Finally he is back! I am very glad to see ya and your Art again.
Great piece buddy,..I mean excellent!!!!!:thumbsup:

Cheerz from Lee to Lee:beer:

Tommy Lee

[Pancreas]

The fluffy snowman strikes back! Glad to see you again. I love this picture, you´ve given a gothic cathedral window or a carved wood altarpiece feel to it.

:beer:

[METALKID]

pretty cool artwork!:eek:
is it telling us a story?i'm very interested in WarcraftIII and lord of the rings,your illustration just looks like them~i love it :thumbsup:

[melmann]

completely amazing! :applause: Awesome detail!

[Per-Anders]

i love the inlaid feel to it, it's so intricate. great work :) htough it takes a moment to get used to it as it's pretty bright and colourful compared to the other works of yours that i've seen, but once you get over that looking at all the detail is amazing.:thumbsup:

[GlasS-]

This is nice!
Definently like your style, good work.
Is this all digital or did you do draw it by hand first? (maybe a dumb question, but ill ask anyway ;) )

\o/ ~ \o/

[puddlefish]

good to see you back sleepless. fantastic painting, the colours are great, they help the definition alot. it's pretty easy to loose forms to all that detail in something like this.

i too have been neglecting the 2d forums lately :shame:
hopefully i'll find time to make a comeback soon!

[gL_spear]

Just checked out your website after seeing this great peice of work, you have a lot of really great stuff done on it ;)

[bibi5000]

Sleepless, that's amazing as always. The background could have been a little bit darker to emphasize the foreground more, but that's nothing to rant about.

Missed you, too. You want to marry me? :love:

[Savage_Henry]

Seeing all this great 2D makes me sad.

I want good 2D....but I'll settle for a mandarin orange....and a glass of cold water.

[DimitrisLiatsos]

:bounce: Sleepless U DA MAN !!!!!:thumbsup:


i really like your style very much!!!!:beer:

[Frank Dodd]

Outstanding work, I love the style!

[Carlocki]

i want to spend a unusefull post to say i'm happy u are back

your image is something new i think for you
also workin for D&D it's something that showing new frontiers for you
catch ya later

[Baal]

I really :love: the style of that pic ! Keep up the good work :wip:

[wesware]

Really nice image with alot of depth.

[Gamoron]

Cool image Sleepless. Is it in Dragon magazine? Good to see you posting again.

[Gentle Fury]

ah, my 2D snowman counterpart has returned.....and in wonderful form. Great piece!!! Your work always rocks though!

Keep em coming.......again :)

[niut]

really wondefull work!:applause:

[anti-shock]

Great texture and composition.
Very nice. :)

[Cableguy]

A great piece of manual work.

Looking at it I see it has a mathematical beauty to it, a fractal quality in the richness of detail and I keep wonder how it could be made in some programmatic way. I would love to be able to this kind of thing in 3D and compositing tricks, scripts and such.

Thanks for the inspiration!

[V_Shane]

Sleepless! Glad to see your still plugging away (successfully i might add) on your Fantasy/D&D images. Looks very cool. What mag?

Shane

[timovihola]

Hey Sleepless,

That's a great painting you've got there, the style is VERY inspiring! My favourite character is the knight, the pose is really fitting and he has lots of personality! I want more :)

[lildragon]

SO much to look at, so many different pieces going on here and they're all well done, I love your use of color it always shines! Tommy and yourself have such unique talents :)

I seriously don't know what else to say that hasn't been said so :)

You have received the CGtalk choice award . Please feel free to display this image anywhere you like! very inspiring work!

upon receiving this award, it guarantees you a spot in the cgtalk gallery hall of fame (http://gallery.cgtalk.com) - which you are now placed

http://www.cgtalk.com/plug_award/cgtalk_award_feb03_2.jpg

P.S. if you need a different background, please send me a PM with the RGB values.

[M.Rogne]

Er.... what do I say... Nice o.o
Wish I had been the first to comment it though... Gotta hate when all the comments are taken -Grumbles...-

[Sleepless]

Thanks to everyone for the encouraging comments. I amazed that the pic was so well received. A CGtalk medal, I will display it proudly.
Answers: It was traditionally drawn first in non-photo blue pencil, scanned and then painted in Photoshop. It was too complicated an image for me to do without a working drawing; If it's not out yet it will be soon in Dragon magazine.

[fayndee]

That's so cool, it's hard to think that you made it with 1 or 2 layers.:applause:

I like your style definitely, I try to draw a work like this too. But you see, my problem is the hand drawing. It's also where i wanna improve myself.:scream:

By any way, it's a well done for you, keep running, I will stand in you everywhere!!:thumbsup:

[qwerty_12345]

i would like to know sleepless's website, i really like this piece, and would love to see more

[Psycho Ken]

You rocks! good to have u back man.
I like this image alots,the colour style of urs is quite unique!
Ken.03

[Rey]

Nice work

[MorganRalston]

DUDE!:thumbsup:

That's really cool! It reminds me of this game I used to have. I think it was called something like Rage of Mages.

Totally nice work!

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