hateful draft, James Wolf Strehle (2D)

[Annette]

Excellent ..love the detail you have put in :)

[MoonVisionStudio]

Well done, very disturbing. It hurts my eyes to look at it.

[alonsito]

arght! it reminds me my own eye with conjunctivitis days ago, never mind... great detail! the flyes around the eye give the "touch", very good work... :)

[bradyscott]

Nice work! Very creepy, gooey eyeball.

[wesa]

Yeah! Very creepy indeed! Gives me the creeps!

[SulaMoon]

Very cool, yet, very disturbing. The insects there were a nice touch.

[waheednasir]

good job...:thumbsup:.

[Ishtar]

Yeah good good job ! :-)

[Samuraikuroi]

Hey James. Viewed this and I liked it. Got up from my chair and saw it from a few feet away from my comp....man. this pic kicks ass. The colours and shadeding are sweet!

[matejkovacic]

The cloth over face has a very nice feel. The flies and eyes are really creepy.

[Lindsey]

Great peice! Very creepy and well done. I love the skin textures and the veil on her face.

[jameswolf]

Thanks for the comments everyone! now I'm really glad I went back into the piece, maybe I should revive some more old pieces. wow so your eye looked like that alonsito, it would've been a nice reference:) I came up with the flies around the eyes from a day at the lake, there were a bunch of dead carp floating up to shore and my dad called me over and was like "if you wanna paint something really scary, try painting that!" and he pointed to a huge bloated fish with flies all over it...I gagged, but that wasn't the end of it. I heard the girls on the beach yelling "gross, get that out of here...your a man get rid of it" I turned around to see all of the other males fleeing from the beach and I gave a mighty sigh... so I had to tie a rope around it and swim it out to the middle of the lake for the current to take it downward to the swamp area, all the while grumbling like samity sam. after this greatest of tragedies, I vowed never to forget this day! so I Immortalized the memory in a painting! so to you it may just be a creepy pic, but to me it will always be a stinky bloated fish water skiing 5 feet behind me.

[alonsito]

jeje belive me u painted very good the all thing. wow! i would like my dad encourage me like that! jeje

[zchfayfay]

nice.................

[TRHaDEs]

Nice works!I like the skintones and the eyes!so great,keep it up~:thumbsup: 4stars

[andreasrocha]

Superb! +5

[funarty]

eeewwwwww,gory details,and it does hurt your eyes to look at it! excellent job:thumbsup: :thumbsup:

[jameswolf]

thanks! I'm glad I was successful in my attempt. I wanted to make it disturbing without completely going overboard. I think adding things like flies are far more effective than bloody gashes and such. sometimes the small details that you don't normally notice have the most powerful effect. anyway thanks again.

[ArmyOfMayhem]

the textiles and details are great. my only crit is about the bugs. you'd think they'd be flies but they dont have wings, they look like very, very tiny beetles, almost too small to be real, unless they were ants or something. its beautiful though

[bandersnatch]

awesome! makes me feel a little uncomfortable. really well done.

[FarDays]

Excellent stuff. The enjoyment of the piece is added to by the story as well :)

[Rivenis]

Dude, this is a seriously cool pic. Loving the sinister feel of it. Great work

[eddfrutos]

Fantastic.. morbid... and very well done..
+4

[jameswolf]

I really appreciate the comments everyone, they're definitely keeping my spirits up while I gruel through these current commissions I'm working on.

[davros]

very,very, very creepy. it's realy good work

greetings
davros

[acidlullaby]

oh my god I freaking love this piece!! It's inspired me to dig out one of my old abandoned works and work on it some more. thanks!!

[jameswolf]

Great! go for it, going back into old peices can be so much fun cause you have a refreshed mind and can bring so much more to the piece. sometimes a piece just hits a dead end and you have to step back for a while until you get another spark and can start it up again.

[CyborgJA]

Great picture. REALLY. It impresses my eyes.
Bravissimo 5*

[claudiasutton]

oooooooo
^._.^

This is very nice...I love the mood.

[elmoooo]

whoa cool
looks very resident evil(ush)
super cool keep it up

[chenshiyi86]

:applause: beautiful work! love it

[RicoD]

Great work! Love the concept, colors, contrasts ... welcome to my wallpaper!

[jameswolf]

Thanks RicoD! what a privilege, I hope my piece behaves on your desktop, and also that she will brighten your day! or darkens it, if you prefer. :)

[Jerusha]

One of the most striking portraits I have ever seen! Unbelievable detail - how frightfully gorgeous she is. The crop you've used is just right in my opinion. Love the transparency & texture of the veil.

[Musatjahjono]

Very detail. Nice work.:thumbsup:

[anki6385]

great work

[jameswolf]

Thanks, I've just started some new portraits, hopefully i'll get them up sometime this month.

[CGArtist777]

I definitely like the decrepit look of the area in question...The different skin tones definitely speak of nasty muckety muck. Reminds me of my days on the acreage....dogs + raccoons = disaster...and flies...oh the flies.

Very nice work overall....5*

[stuh505]

Why are the flies so tiny? My eyes have a difficult time taking this image seriously with this dramatic scale contrast...her head would have to be, like, 5 feet tall!

[jameswolf]

What sort of Flies are inhabiting your life. these flies are quite proportionate for a common house fly, unless the flies in my area are overly conscious of their weight, which I don't think they are because thats ridiculous! theres plenty of feces in Boston. based off the scale of the two I'd say the head is closer to 9 inches (an average head) than 5 feet, but I respect your crit and thank you for the comment :)

[GraphicDragon]

What I find most striking are the multiple levels of contrast. She is beautiful yet repulsive. She looks angry and sad at the same time. The mood of the image is "dark" yet her face has a strong light on it. Her beauty is protected behind a veil while her curse is unprotected from the flies. At the most basic level, it hurts to look at her but you want to look... and keep looking.

I don't know if it was your intention to create the contrasts but I think this is what makes the image so compelling. It pulls you in and pushes you away at the same time. Brilliant.

[jameswolf]

I appreciate your comment Graphicdragon, thank you. It was my intention to create the contrasts of the beauty in the face and grotesque qualities of the eye, the other contrasts weren't intentional in the beginning but sort of created themselves as I progressed through the painting.

[JagAnders]

This is great! And yes, it REALLY hurts too watch it :P Nicey!

[tddtk]

Creepy!!!:buttrock:

[jameswolf]

Excellent.... heh heh hehhhhhh......thanksypops tddtk

[dolphinzzz]

scarey face! I like those fly around the eyes

[scarletknight]

Good job, it makes my eyes water.. :)

[ian081271]

I love the tranlucency of the skin.....

I think you cropped it just at the right space you see all the juicey detail which is very well controlled...

I have uploaded one of my paintings...

Check it out let me know what you think....

Cheers
Ian081271

[benteschlick]

really cool, I like it!

[Chupacabra]

Sensationall!
Awesomeness pure..
Stars from me.

[jameswolf]

Hey Chupacabra! thanks for the comment, I actually just got done looking at some of your new stuff over at CA. I was so inspired by your environmental designs,

[Pamyla]

As My nephew would say "So Weird"! I love it, excellent

[Blaschke]

great work and disturbing idea!

[talenzz]

nice job, but she's ...

[RafaellaRyon]

My gosh, great picture! Congrats, you're skilled! =)

[jameswolf]

Thanks Teferis :D

[RafaellaRyon]

You are welcome, JamesWolf! =)

[GreenDuckie]

So great! Nice detail on the face veil and that eye is so scary. I love it!

[thesquid]

holy hell dude , this is so good , i wish you would do a tut on how you made it
5 STARS

when i see creepy thinks i get in a better mood ... your painting made me happpy

[Nwagz]

I don't know how many times I have looked at this painting and had nothing to say because I had not been painting for very long. Now that I have I realize how much brush detail is actually in this painting. From what I see in order to get that skin color you had to paint then glaze paint then glaze change brushes paint then glaze. I am assuming some blending modes were used such as color dodge and burn for some of the blotches around the eyes. From looking at this it reminds me of a person making a sword. Folding it over and over. I see how you built the wrinkles around the eyes with browns purples, greens and yellows. The silk mask is just amazing as well. I think you used a custom brush to create the lines. I bet it was hard covering up her mouth after you put all of that detail into it.

If I am wrong on some of my critiques it is do to my beginning understanding of photoshop and how to use its elements.

[jameswolf]

Wow I really appreciate both of your comments! Thanks so much. yes it did take a lot of work Nwags, surprisingly though it didn't take nearly as long as some of my older pieces. things obviously get faster and easier as you continually learn. I try not to use to many blending modes as it can get pretty complicated when I start merging things, mostly its dealing with opacities. for the veil, what i did was drew a line and duplicated, merged the two layers, duplicate, all the time moving the copied layers downwards, occasionally drawing a new line to fit the surfaces, I certainly could have used a custom brush but foolishly didn't lol. I just felt i had more control doing it manually. then over top i drew in the threads that would shine. Yes it certainly can be difficult covering up something you worked very hard on, but you just need to keep it in you mind the whole time that its going to be covered up, if you don't you may stray away from your original concept and lose site of what you were going for. anyway thanks for all the great comments everyone! and i'm glad i made you happy "thesquid" :)

[BOOCAI]

so cool~I like it~

[jameswolf]

BOOCAI thanks, I have a "making of" for this piece in the december issue of 2Dartist magazine so be sure to check it out when it releases in a few days!

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