Citadel, Jordan Nieuwland (2D)

[pabloarau]

Very, very good! Amazing!

[MoonVisionStudio]

Excellent image, I always struggle with cobblestone streets. :thumbsup:

[Zfecit]

Great work!
Best wishes.

[victorior]

Amazing detail, great work!!

[JonStoll]

Just Brilliant!! Great composition, Great color usage. It feels epic yet beautiful and serene. One of your Best pieces yet! Keep up the good work. I would love to have a large print of this, let me know if you ever sell posters or anything.

Jon

[angel]

Love the colors and the mood, makes you wonder what's going on in the castle for the streets below to be deserted, great work! :beer:

[rubenmontecinos]

Very nice image

[thyn]

Nice concept, i love the colors :thumbsup:

[SearchingSoul]

Great Work! Love the Composition.

From seen your Website i have to say that you have a great way of drawing Athmosphere and Mood. The additional use of subtle Blur and Grain make your drawings really nice to watch.

Wonderful work! *bookmarked*

[Nekranea]

Beautiful work, I specially like the background, the lighting and color are very beautiful as well :)

[Hyaloclastics]

Excellent light and color! :love:

[Sezanne]

:thumbsup: :thumbsup:

[far]

very nice work :)

[Picky]

Mmmm, beautiful. I love the composition and well used space around the whole image. I am a fan of cobblestone streets, which I always struggle with. Would have loved to see some people on the street, just because I am curious to see what they would look like. Must have taken sometime to paint all those houses on the hill... Patience is golden. Well done!

[mridulsen]

Great work man..... love the lighting and the environment. keep going....:)

[mnju1]

really
nice ... i like it so much

[Jnieuwland]

Thanks for the words people.. I kept people out of the street because I wanted the citadel to be the maine focus. The concept of the environment is the character here. Also all those houses took no time at all... a few key reference photos provided all the building texture as well as matched lighting i needed. Then I colour corrected and painted on top to blend it all together. Since I had a clear idea of the image i wanted to create, researching photo ref was easy.

[leigh]

This is fabulous. I absolutely adore the storybook quality it has. My only real concern is that perhaps you went a little too crazy with the contrast in the foreground? It seems a tad drastic, especially on the left side, where the dark colours make it seem quite heavily-weighted towards the left, almost enough to compete with the citadel which should be the clear focus of the image. It's possible, however, that simply cropping some of the left side off would address this, but it's obviously entirely your choice to leave it this way too.

Really cool stuff. It looks like something you'd see at the beginning of a fairy tale film, and I like the way the birds are the only sign of life. Plugged.

[LuckyBug]

Wonderfull, image, congrats :)

[Richard3d]

Congrats on the front page. Looks awesome.

[ambient-whisper]

holy crap jordan, you've improved big time. love that you are experimenting with more lighting, and that you strayed away from regular matte painting for this one. love it!.

freeze frame high five!.

[catizone]

Absolutely wonderful! What else could be said?

Best,
Rick

[evolucian]

awesome work .

[PavelPetrenko]

Great work! Love colurs! :thumbsup:

[Kev3D]

Great work. You've shown great understanding of lighting and composition.

[boomji]

wall papered.


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[adel3d]

great work love it:arteest:

[cani]

Great quality work Congrats for the top row!
The city reminds me of the city of Eckmul in the lanfeust de troy comic books. Have you read them?

[phoenix]

Very nice work


Regards

[Jnieuwland]

thanks again for the comments! leigh.. I agree the left side is a tad dark.. there is a brighter/older version on my website..appreciate the critique:) . cani.. haven't read that comic.. sounds cool tho. I'll check it out.

Cheers!

[cani]

cani.. haven't read that comic.. sounds cool tho. I'll check it out.



Yes if you like comic book deifnetly give it a look. Humoristic, violent, fantasist and sexy :thumbsup:

[Ministry]

Outstanding :bowdown: :bowdown: :bowdown: :bowdown: :bowdown:

[mirmel]

very nice colors!
good work!:applause:

[Boykinov]

Amazing work!
Love the color mood.

[Yuetlu]

Good work!really


Hoping to live in such lovely town

[Matellis]

Great work Jordan! very inspiring :D

[Peyop]

I love this image. The mood is simply amazing !

[alrssam]

Ho man . really great stuff . like all nice details you've painted .

keep up

[Felideus]

Very impressive, I love it :applause:

[Brashen]

Great piece. Tho I can't help to notice some of the perspective maybe a bit off? Anyways love the colours.

[fxEVo]

Oh my! What can I say? I want to be there.

[melica]

This is so beautiful and dreamy.

[FX77]

Awesome! .. very well done ..

[flaviomonteiro]

good composition, colors and light

[ambient-whisper]

Hey there Jordan,

Congratulations on the CgChoice placement!

[rawgon]

Such a strong composition & what a great color depth, you are a great artist!
Inspiring

[Bungalo]

Magnificent! Such a beautiful contrast of light! Well captured atmosphere. I too would love to walk these streets of downtown :)

[Sabrane]

Wow, nicely done! I love the cold area at the bottom and how your eye is then really drawn to the warm area at the top.

[aradarena]

Is very high

[bdbros]

love that little bit of red and pathway a lot.it looks amazing

[Jason-Seiler]

Inspiring . . . looks like a scene out of a movie . . . very nice!

[casualbrooks]

hello, i was wondering would it be alright to post about this image? I feature art that I like on my website every so often. I really like what you did here and would like to post about it on http://www.designiscasual.com/

Please let me know if that would be ok with you. Thank you,

brooks

[psoszynski]

exeptional work!

[anezka]

Beautiful job. I like the contrasts between the light and dark in this picture. Nice architecture. There is not possible for me to recognize the points in the back - are they some birds?

[Jnieuwland]

Glad you guys like it! The dreamlike mood is exactly what I was going for.. a place you'd like to escape to.

Mr. Seiler... I'm flattered! casualbrooks... Sure! thx

I will have prints available soon :)

[BashaDo]

Great atmosphere and details!
Interesting gallery to :arteest:
Barbara


My gallery (http://bashata.cgsociety.org/gallery/)

[Jnieuwland]

Prints now available!

Here (http://www.deviantart.com/print/11563278/?utm_source=DA&utm_medium=DP&utm_campaign=DA_DP_BuyThisPrint-Bottom_121009&utm_content=BuyThisPrint-Bottom)

[gandoza]

Amazing work, I like colors.

[Kaous]

nice work !! :thumbsup:

[AlphaDDC07]

This is just brilliant!! I am so Gelous lol

[bogusangel]

Great work,I like it

[ALBITAR]

Amazing work ! ;)

[anikakinka]

I'm totally in love with colors on this picture. How bright is the top and how dark is the bottom. Wonderful piece.

[NilsCarlen]

Fantastic detail, and the architecture on the buildings are amazing.

[turtle-rn]

The photographic feel of the cobbled street is a bit distracting but composition and lighting are awesome.

[inky2]

Fantastic work
Fine palette and play of light and shades
I am fascinated by this work

respect

[heyjean]

holy, i love the castle!

[phoenix]

Very nicely done :) love the mood :)


Regards

[Nera]

I like the dark/light in this picture.:thumbsup:

[kapne]

beautiful and very inspiring!! love it! congratulations for the good job!!

[CelesteAndrade]

Wow. I love the lighting.

[JanosHunyadi]

Love it, very cool design! where did you get the idea for the castle design?

[RogerRyan]

Very awesome! Amazing job! Could you tell us your workflow of this piece?

[harshi88]

very nice...