Forest Troll 2, Pekka Veikkolainen (2D)

[roaring23]

Wow, I really like it.

Nice use of a painterly style, and the whole drawing holds together quite nicely.

Beautiful drawing

[ablorat]

I like the atmosphere the picture conveys! Spooky!:eek: 5 stars!:thumbsup:

[PapaNinja]

Great ! I love it ! :thumbsup:

[Samuraikuroi]

Terve Pekka! outstanding illustration. The use of colour and light are great.
And your website is fantastic!

[richdraws]

Fantastic image, I love the little daisies and how they add so much to the scale. Oh and the trolls unmentionables are a great touch too ;)

[Squibbit]

Terve Pekka! outstanding illustration. The use of colour and light are great.
And your website is fantastic!

i agree, awesome stuff on your site and this here is a cool pic too :thumbsup:


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[Ghotire]

Awesome!! This is one of the coolest paintings I've seen in weeks. Dripping with style, character, and that whole story-telling element. You get 5 stars from me, and you go on my favorites list. Post more!

[kryptoreye]

Pekka,

I love the painting and I love the stuff at your website. Wonderfully loose brushwork, use and sense of colour, cool designs, productivity, style... you name it! Nice to see such talent emerge from our beautiful country (still not snowing, though).

-Jussi

[Goro]

Yo Gecko nice to see you around! Always loved this concept!
It tells a lot of story and I'd love to see a short film with those characters!
9k is friggin huge....how's the painting performance?

Cheers!
Goro (Mitsui)

[Ikaa]

Wonderful painting!

[CyborgJA]

I love it ! Double focus, great colors, great design....5*!

[juhone]

Looks great Pekka, as allways!

I liked your post dragon allso :)

[Wildstyles]

Lovely! Has a nice charm to it... like the holy water colour look... ah great atmosphere!
No software... traditional on paper?
And what a brave little girl!
Well done!

[Glosep]

Great concept and colors. Love the style.

[inky2]

Very nice work!I love it:)
5 stars

[ikuru]

terve dude you have a cool and personal thing going. good for you.
4 stars, some small asteroids and dark moon

[crazybread]

Very frightning scene (for a kid I mean). Incredible mood. 9K? wow. nice. You must paint very loosely no? This pic's got this really wonderfull fairytake feel. Love It!!! 5*s.

[warpy]

the lighting just fits :) 5 stars.

[shtl]

Yup, I like it too.


9K, it must be a nice computer you're working on!
I'd love to see this one in 9K res.

[siouxfire]

You have any amazing body of work, but this is one of my favourites. Brilliant.

[droidoz]

I think its really great, i love the composition and the colours. Keeping the troll in the dark makes him very creepy. I'd love to see more of your troll images, keep it up!

[TeroM]

Great scene! I love the colors :)

[Juzz]

Haha! Etusivulle!

[ienrdna]

mahtava tunnelma:bounce:

[funkyfoe]

perkelle! love the mood! figured it had to be scandinavian as soon as i saw it,
nobody can pain`t trolls better then the nordic! ;)

keep it up!

[claudiasutton]

This is so cool Pekka! I really like the mood and the colors.

Keep it up.

[d3cap]

I really enjoyed your first interation of your forest trolls. This one has a great deal amount of confidence that I did'nt see as much from your first try at it. I would like to say this one has a much better mood, sense of scale, and intensity about the image from the first. Nice work, keep em` coming.

[waheednasir]

great mood...:). congratulations.

[plasteredcat]

Very inspiring and original! Keep it up!:thumbsup:

[Gord-MacDonald]

absolutely awesome! This painting really captivates the imagination - kinda like stepping into a Grimms fairytale.

five stars

Gord

[fuss]

Now, that's one low hanging penis. On the other hand, what do I know about Troll Anatomy...

:D Hehe, sorry, could not resist. But to add something constructive to my comment. I like it, I always've been fascinated by the mix of innocence/beauty etc. with malice, wickedness and the like. I sense a hint of it in your picture, although it's not that clear here and I guess different people will respond differently to it. I like the fact that the whole scene is quite open to interpretations - the troll could be an evil monster feeding on little, innocent girls, or just a shy forrest creature, as surprised and scared as the little girl, who caught him at whatever he was doing with his pants down... (cough, but enough of that ;)) I like the feeling in this picture that ranges somewhere between "fairy tale" and "horror" (someone mentioned Brothers Grimm, yeah, that kind of fits, old fairy tales were originally darker than today's versions). But, dude, 9k resolution??? :eek: :)

P.S. - And, oh yeah, when I first saw the picture and just before I read the corresponding text I had to think about Finnland, too. But it might be because of the band Finntroll, though they are actually Swedes as far as I know. Well, whatever... ;)

[Kei-Acedera]

VEry Neat style! Love the feel and look of this piece..would make a very interesting book ;)
Great Job!

[MikkoK]

Hyvaa kamaa! Onnittelut etusivusta myos :) En olisi uskonut tassa elamassa etta taalla menee etusivulle sellainen kuva jossa on turha nysvaaminen korvattu tyylitajulla. Nytpahan sekin on nahty! ;)

Engelska:

Good stuff mate! About the resolution, the saying goes you only get the details you paint in. Unless it's for print, I can't see why you couldn't do the same with 3-4k for example.

Rock on!

[eloisaveme]

Awesome!!! Fantastic work....

[sokolova]

Oh, it`s so nice work:)
Maybe you used too many dark colours, as for me, but anyway I like your painting.
It`s very touchingly :)

[smoothoperator]

ooo very nice.
but I think I see what looks like ... well lets just say between his legs it looks kinda like....
Anyway..I would rimlight a few things here and there maybe even the troll too a little.
Pretty painting. I like it. Cool idea.

[mchmielewski]

what a nice concept and choice of colors ... gr8 shading as well

[mayazeus]

Love the picture. Great work...love the lighting. Love the website too. I love your style. What program are you using for your most current pieces? Good luck with the future!


-Nick

[Pekka]

Hola!

Oops, thanks for the front page! And thanks for the numerous comments, everybody! And about my portfolio, thanks, though I'm about to throw a lot of stuff out in order the rebuild to whole thing with up-to-date material. Give it a couple months.

About the 9000 pixel resolution:

Photoshop handles the file fine, and I'm very used to flattening my work just to know I can't go back and I have to paint in order to go forwards with the image, instead of digging through old layers to find if something was better back 5 hours ago.

The good side of it is I never want to encounter actual pixels if I don't have to, so I paint big enough to even feel like painting and not pixel-pushing when I paint something like the small flowers. Also, there is no reason to paint something so small I cannot print it in years to come. Other than that, surely half or 1/3 size would have been sufficient. I'm so happy that it's not about counting pixels anymore, though.

crazybread: yeah sure, the painting always starts as something like 1500-2000 wide and quick brush work, but I usually crop the thing a few times on the run and double/triple the size at some point, in the end it's nice to know you can go really sharp with detail if need be.

shtl: I got a dual 2.41 ghz with 2 gb of ram, it seems to work fine for this.

And the daisies, they are actually a pretty plant called the Arctic starflower, a very pretty white thing to see in a dark spruce forest.

kryptoreye.. thanks! alas, still raining today. I hear Lapland hasn't failed us yet.

Hey goro! Can't really promise you a whole short film, but you'll see a couple more trolls in the near future. I have some ideas waiting for color run in the sketchbooks.

and droidoz: hell yeah more trolls!

Juho! Hey man, how's everything?

Juzz! Heyyyy!

funkyfoe: agreed!

d3cap, I'm glad to notice the progress! Painting the new one was so much fun.

fuss, for sure this troll isn't up to much good, at least if you compare to the first one who is just kinda bored and trying to blend in and go about his business in the woods. But I guess that's why I felt like doing another one, to see the same kind of scene play out with a hint of a different ending. In the first sketch of the first troll way back it was almost impossible to even notice the troll, so this new one is pretty much on the other end of the spectrum with the troll in plain view and definitely not ignoring the poor girl.

mikkok, kiitos, kiitos! joo en itsekään laskenu tän varaan.

yeah the trolls unmentionables.. I'm afraid that what started as a small dark shape in the silouette of the first troll sketch, will now rule throughout the series and oh my, how many different compositions will I be able to find with the weiner as close to the center of the image as these have it.. I better get a medal of some sort (=cardboard) when this whole thing is over!

I have some other things to finish but I hope to be back with these hairy guys after a while. Thanks again for commenting!

oh and mayazeus: I always worked with photoshop, usually I sketch black and white on paper though, to get a start for the screen.

[jasrdunn]

Amazing! There's so much mood and emotion in this and some of the other images on your website. I love the mysterious, shadowy style.

[Taibatsu]

I love the colors and the ambiance :)

[Frictor]

Love the painterly feel and the atmosphere of the painting. Really cool stuff, 5*s from me.

[maxon]

Whee, hahhaha, 5 stars, super, cheese

Awesome to see you going full speed, man. Gotta fav your gallery

But hey! Why isn't the snow dragon in your portfolio? The people here would just die to see it. And what about the tutorial about it I've been waiting my pants wet all this time :D

All the best and take care :D

+ CONGRATS ABOUT THE PLUG ! ! !

ps. ja heppi vaan trollilla roikkuu, täällähän ei turhia kainostella :D

Manu

[Kurosaki Ichigo]

Musta... Krakish...

Awaken!!!

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