Kimberley, Jussi Lehtiniemi (2D)

[SeifoSid]

i like how her head merges with the tree, its creepy and almost makes my neck hurt, nice work.

[DeeVad]

Really good work Jussi,
Your tones are really well choosed and made a pure light on it. Details are great.
Keep good work
*****

[Damselfly]

Great job, and a wonderfully inventive concept!

[waheednasir]

fantastic work Jussi...:). the color scheme is really good. its all very well handled, i esp like her hair (besides her shoulder).

[henryzjetsam]

hi..there, this is good, love it!

[Sovica]

Your friend must be very happy for such a greate gift from you =)

[gaianix]

nice shot :thumbsup: ..............greenish atmosphere:twisted:

[GonzaloGolpe]

Cool job!!:thumbsup:

(your avatar is great,haha):D

[Samuraikuroi]

Hej, Kimberley. this is simply beautiful. Nice work.

[G-FLUX]

Wow wonderful work. Nice textures. :thumbsup:

G-flux

[dison80]

marvel at your work!wonderful and abundant detail!

[Squibbit]

great pic, man


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[zng-Y]

outstanding Jussi!

[jramauri]

Nice colors, nice textures, nice friend :)! 4 stars for you.

[BGHart]

I am absolutely enthusiastic about this image. :bounce: The mixture of the highly realistic face in a totally magical environment is fantastic. Should appear on front page soon. :) ***** Britta

[kryptoreye]

Great many thanks to all of you for all the nice words, it really means a lot!


Your friend must be very happy for such a greate gift from you =)


That's what friends are for, right? ;) Actually, I'm thankful to her for letting me use her features on this! I had the painting in my head for a long time but lacking a suitable model for the character I never got around doing it before now.


Cool job!!:thumbsup:

(your avatar is great,haha):D


Again, I have to thank somebody else, Triumph the Insult Comic Dog this time, for borrowing his marvellous features. Anyway, thanks for that too, Gonzalo!

Cheerios!

Jussi

[Urrgos]

Amazing image. I really like the overall design and composition. The colours are perfectly chosen, everything having similar tones and lighting, but enough contrast that each element can be easily picked out. You did a particularly good job on the smile... that's my favourite part of the entire image. Wonderful concept and you're friend must be very impressed!

[kryptoreye]

Thanks Urrgos, I'm glad you like her smile especially! The reference for the mouth area is a combination of two different photos. I couldn't judge the quality of the reference photos at the moment of shooting them, and ended up with good bits and pieces in many pics but not a perfect single photo. Thus I had to combine parts from different photos and with a little bit of guesswork make the final decision on her expression, since by the time I started painting she was already half the world away. I was hoping the smile looks natural, so I really appreciate your comment. Cheers!

Jussi

[H3llBoy]

Great Job! i like the conzept much....


cheers,
H3llBoy

[droidzlander]

Hey Jussi,
that's simply awesome! The girl is gorgeous, I love the shape and the pose of her shoulders, the cheeks are wonderful and the skin tone and the radiated light on it is perfect.
Also the ethereal atmosphere is very dreamful and the composition is well executed as it directs the focus in a circular path from the breast of the girl to the hummingbirds.
Bravo!!

Andrea

[PapaNinja]

Great colors, very nice work, I love it ! :love:

[marxmyth]

Jussi

I particularly like the subtlties of the composition...the textures on the ground surfaces and the delicate background are genuinely intriguing. Your handling of lighting demonstrate a real understanding of color and tone. My only criticism would be the neck...it doesn't meld well with how sharp the othe light affects the girl's face...it is too soft and lacks the discrimination of the facial tone.
Nonetheless...delightful work!

[scrawnypaws]

Very nice, Watch out for chroma discrepancies when compositing from different sources (max, PS), e'g. warm reds on her face versus greeny-grays on her neck. Also, the neck (it's always the most dificult, especially with females).

It's not what they'd call a crit here; it's about mastery versus super-mastery, right?
Cheers, she's loverly.

s.

[deadman4ever]

Just beautiful! :)

[kryptoreye]

Thanks for the critics and encouraging words, guys! And many thanks to CG Society for the Choice Award acknowledgement, it's a longtime dream of mine come true to get around posting something for people to criticize and comment on, and not to even mention seeing my own work in such grand company in this particular gallery. Thank you!

The neck area: I think you are both right about it being a problem in the painting. I wanted to simplify it compared to the face part, but apparently I failed in doing that right. It works a lot better on the upper torso part than the neck area. The light could do with more definition indeed. The whole neck seems to be a bit stiff, too, like a pedestal jutting out from the body to support the head (more or less the case with neck generally I guess, but you catch my drift). Maybe it could do with a gentle curve along its lenght and more definition to the shape. Sasha's right about the neck area, it's something to pay more attention to in future pieces.

Very nice, Watch out for chroma discrepancies when compositing from different sources (max, PS), e'g. warm reds on her face versus greeny-grays on her neck.

This I find very interesting and I'd appreciate a lot if you could share more of your insight on this matter, if it's not too much of an effort. Just to clarify the process: the piece is not composited from various sources, but painted exclusively in Photoshop (3dsmax was only used to create a mask for the small 3-leaf plants to save time and nerves). Nervermind that, but I take it you see a problem in the use of colour here? My approach to this was to introduce bounced light from the gray-green environment on the shadow areas of the skin to make them colder, and emphasize the colour even further to make it stand out more. Nothing scientific here, just the way I thought it appears nice to look at, even a bit more "fantastic" and not strictly realistic. I've always loved the way Boris Vallejo uses surprisingly bright colours in shadow areas for skin tones to make them more lively, and the skin tones here are my take on trying to introduce something similar to my piece. Nevermind this babble if you find it not worth commenting, but I'd love to hear your thoughts on it.

Mastery indeed, that's something I'm struggling to achieve. I see it's about being able to establish a workflow to introduce all the knowledge you have on colour, composition, execution etc. in a controlled manner; being able to control every aspect of the piece and to know exactly what you are doing in every stage. Plus the skill. At the moment, my workflow is more like constantly pushing my skills to find good ways to work, and back up and try something different in case it doesn't work. Thanks for the remark anyway!


Jussi

[Wiry]

This is excellent work Jussi! I honestly have no critiques for you. It's just great to see real finnish talent on this forum.

Hyvää työtä!:thumbsup:

[jingbaobao]

Your frend is very beautiful .

[kryptoreye]

Kiitos kaunis ja danke schön, Ari!

-Jussi

[ienrdna]

what can I say, kaunista

[Aupirit]

OH wow! I simply love the hair on her chest! wonderful.. absolutely wonderful!!

[Haru2]

Is a beautifull work! I love it!! :applause:

[remcv8]

Kimberly is an earth goddess. Beautiful work.

[idok]

wow. good work

[ffourier]

hey kryptoreye you have pretty nice friends :) I'm very fond of the mood and the girl face. A small poetic touch that is really interesting.

[Drakula]

Love it! :D Great work - especially the green things ;) I really like whole bushy things - could you show some brushes you used to make this lovely mossy atmosphere?


Could you send me phone number to Kimberley? :D ;)

[t---man]

Looks very mysteriously!

[Saek]

i would kill to be as good as some of you guys, i have only recently started in the field of 3d and CG so yeah im mega noob but yeah, where the hell do you start i mean wow. Anyway freaking insane shit dude, like it alot

[Lyman Zerga]

Realy nice work! It inspired me to do mine! It's the same kind of coloration that I want for my picture. :applause:

[lwjacob]

Great piece!
No crits here.

[wizo5454]

it looks awesome... great work.

[Yogisuna]

I paricularly love the emotion and detail on the Eye. Great Work.

[Hittin]

Great work mate. Good colours, good texture and a nice concept to it. :)

[NightCrawler3d]

a million star from me.
the best i've ever seen
it almost made a friend of mine cry :)
thats how good it is.

[edart]

Love this painting it's so beautifuly peacefull and one of the best images on this board.

[Elsakka]

it's very nice and wonderful Jussi,

I liked it a lot

gooooooo ahead

regards,

ALi

[Liuba]

Ah, beautiful artwork!
My kowtow :love:

[acyaws]

Brilliant! What a wonderful combination! Such a lovely feeling... Wonderful work...

[kryptoreye]

Thanks for the kind words, people!

could you show some brushes you used to make this lovely mossy atmosphere?

Drakula man, mostly what comes to moss and other undergrowth, they were the most ordinary spackle brush and hard round brush combined with a super-duper wonder texture of a tree bark. I put a few quick strokes on the canvas to inspire me and then zoomed in to add some variations. Hard round brush with pressure controlling the size rather than opacity works well for me with small details. Usually the more quickly and loosely I worked, the better the result was. Also, I found out that inverting the texture at the brush controls is a nice and quick way to create shadow and highlight areas to avoid making the texture tiling too obvious. Nothing special in that I guess - just one of those fleeting moments of understanding I had.


-Jussi

[EEraser]

Wow, thats just....beautiful. This is one if the best works ive ever seen. Is it allowed to use this picture as a stock in signatur oder something else? I would love to make a sig with it ;)

[PaulHellard]

Hey there guys,

Hey Jussi, you pop up in the darnedest places, congratulations!!

EXPOSÉ 5 Master Award (http://www.ballisticpublishing.com/books/expose/expose_5/index.php), and CGSociety Tutorial (http://features.cgsociety.org/story_custom.php?story_id=4140)

[kryptoreye]

We'll I'll be..!

I'm still recovering from the shock of receiving my copy of Exposé 5 and seeing the tutorial published almost simultaneously. So many great artists featured in there that I'm awestruck by your choice for the master award. A trillion million gigazillion thanks to Ballistic for the award and considering me worthy, and especially Paul for keeping in contact during late and early hours from the other side of the world. The book looks supadupafantastic and I think I'll have to get silk gloves to avoid staining it with fingerprints for browsing through it back and forth again and again... talking about eye candy! Yum-mee!

Thanks again and hope the tutorial is helpful and/or interesting read, too.

And congratulations to everybody featured in Exposé 5, your work is definitely worth it!

[Adonios]

Wow, that's a gorgeous painting... There's not much else I can say. She looks awesome.

[badran2008]

You are creative, I admire you very much

[seibold]

very beautiful

[kryptoreye]

Thank you very much, glad you like it! I'd love to paint more beautiful girls, but they all seem to evade me. Hmm... odd.

Anyways, thanks for the comments!

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