Noob here[Self-introduction]

[apaparone]

:bounce: This is very good, I am also a traditional artist and I appreciate very much the lightness of your style. The first one is particularly impressive. Keep up the good work!

[Nerux]

Woa:eek:
That's f*cking amazing :buttrock:

[jeroentje]

You are so good that it depresses me...
jeroentje :bowdown:

[Sangotten]

I think your work is truly amazing!!!

I allready admired your work but I come to think that your skills are something I'm so jealous of!

keep em posting!!:thumbsup:

[Eldorian]

You are reeeeely great! Did you have a photo as a reference for the first pic?

[E_Moelzer]

Awesome!!!!
Especially the first one is wonderfull!
CU
Elmar

[Virusescu]

YOU ROCK!!!!
Your worl is realy realy great.
I must say I browse this forum for over two months now as a guest, and I made this account today because of you.
I had to say this.... BRAVOOOOOOOOOOO:applause:

[Phobia4]

omg great work!:buttrock:

[Cgkoko]

A Noob with kick-ass work and great tutorials.That's sweat!Iwould like to be a Noob like you!

[Lunatique]

Holy cow, thanks for the generous compliments! :love:

I'm a total noob, and I'm just starting to get the hang of a small corner of Maya's capabilities. I'll be posting a lot more dumbass noob questions along the way, so please be patient with me.

For the first pic, I did use reference, but I never follow references exactly. I always inject something unique and personal that makes the piece special to me. Most of my work is done without reference, but every once a while, I'll see a pose that's so inspiring, I'll use it and do something different with it.

I posted some works in progress here: http://www.cgtalk.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9464

Any comments and critiques would be appreciated. :D

[xenxen]

I love your sense of lighting, and composition. Normally I see a lot of over exertion as fara sposes go and a lot of concetration on exagerated anatomy but your work reamins sublty appealling. I like the fact that your style - though not necessarily fresh - is especially clean. I hate sloppy work.

[Galo]

Wow :bounce: Wow :bounce: And Wow :bounce:

this is sooooooo amazing, you've got so much talent....

[Plusion]

:applause:

Congrats!!! Amazing work!

:xtreme:

[illustr8rX]

beautiful...very nice work. Good to see you here; I believe I remember you from Sijun's forum, right? -that 2nd girl, the 'snowy' one was there I believe...in any case glad you're here. Thanks for sharing. don

[Korgath]

Very nice!

[Odie]

wow! Your paintings are incredible! You inspire me to want to be a better artist :)

[EricUNSL]

Hi Lunatique,

Most impressive digital work. You should really try doing more from life or really good reference. The top image is clearly your strongest piece. My only crit would be to watch your edges. Unless all your work is going to have a soft blurry style. Your first image of the woman has her right arm pointing away from her body and closer to the foreground. The back of her arm to her elbow could be sharper. Not to much to take away from the focus though. The bridge of her nose could also be sharper than the edge of her left cheek. As things go back in space they become softer. Vice versa. Again if you're going for a sylized realism what I've typed doesn't apply. But maybe in the future if you decide to do a photorealistic portrait it always helps to remember the rules.

[pabbloz]

Oh My good! this is better than a photo!

Great! Incredible! Amazing! Awesome!! :eek: :eek:

(mm,... I need learn more cool vocabulary)

rate: 5 starts! (sorry... I couldn't find the six!) :thumbsup:

[KOryH]

very nice,
I have been seeing your work for some time now on the various forums. It is always great too see improvement and development in fellow artists.
Keep up the great work!

[Cman]

so you used Painter and Photoshop for these?
That's amazing!

[wildcart]

Damn this makes me wanna grab my Wacom Pen again and paint some cool stuff :p

And maybe I should use painter more often :bounce:

[JacquesD]

Very good work, specially the first one.

Keep on. :)

[rotaryman]

Gotta good eye for Light and Color, by the way do you know Cecil??

[Dr_Pepper]

Wooo! Very nice, its all photoshop from scratch?

:thumbsup:

[fxgogo]

all i can say is totally awesome.

[phatgroovn]

:cry: :cry: :cry:

Oh


my



god.

[stunna]

Can you tell me about painter.
What does this program do that Photoshop doesnt?

[Dr BeN]

i can completely agree with the others this is tue art ;)
but my favourite is the fourth pictures .... the eyes are SO INCREDIBLE !!! did you use any real pictures or did this perfect thing came comepletely out of your mind ? if so .... i would ne happy if i could imagine such beautiness ;)


keep posting pleeeeeae !
:surprised :airguitar

[wildcart]

well PS7 is almost there :)
Now that PS has the new brush engine it comes close to Painter.

[TiGER]

LIGHT! you have a great grasp on how light works! absolutely amazing! figuring out how light works and then actually making it look right is the hardest thing in tradition art.... cg art too.

[markdc]

Very nice work.

[dimitrios_c]

Awesome work. You already have an excellent foundation for 3D work. You seem to have a good grasp of the elements of art. I look forward to seeing your 3D work.

[Lunatique]

I'm including these two pieces per cg channel staff's request:

http://www.enchanted.prohosting.com/paintings_drawings/new/portrait_tina.jpg

http://www.enchanted.prohosting.com/paintings_drawings/new/window.jpg

These two were just painting exercises to work out some of my brush work experiements. They were both considered failures since I didn't achieve the style I wanted, but I learned a lot from doing them. References were used, but not blindly copied from. I'm against copying photographs like a human zerox machine. If you're going to use reference, do something different with it.

[Lunatique]

Thanks for all the warm welcomes and wonderful compliments! I'm a bit freaked out by all the great responses since I'm just a 2D artist, and a stupid noob in 3D.

illustr8rX- Yep, I'm a regular sijun kid. :D

Eric UNSL- you are right on about my being selective about details and edges. I'm trying to break away from the convention and do my own thing. In fact, I'll be pushing it even further in the future. My goal is to hit that bravura brushwork/alla prima style with my own twist(I'm an admirer of Sargent, Schmid, Lipking..etc).

Cman- I use both, sometimes just just one, sometimes both. Depends on the piece.

rotaryman- I worked with Cecil at Z-Axis for a year and a half. He's one of the nicest/sweetest dudes I've ever met. He's my sexual Chocolate(inside joke). :D

Dr_Pepper- if you mean starting with a blank white background, and then draw/paint one brush stroke at a time, yes.

stunna- Painter was designed to mimic traditional mediums(oils, watercolor, pastel..etc). Its brush engine is light years ahead of Photoshops, but Photoshop destroys Painter in image editing.

Dr BeN- The Melancholic Princess piece was done from my head. For inspiration, I had compiled a combination face using various beautiful faces, which melted away any individualism in facial features, and amplified the common attractive traits. I then studied that compiled face to see how much I can paint a face without any idiosyncrasies associated with individual faces, and come up with an ethereal, yet realistic face.

Here are some closeups of the Princess:

http://www.enchanted.prohosting.com/paintings_drawings/new/melancholic_princess_details-2.jpg

http://www.enchanted.prohosting.com/paintings_drawings/new/melancholic_princess_details-1.jpg

wildcart- Photoshop still has a ways to go to compete with Painter in the brush engine arena, but they are definitely getting warmer. I uninstalled Photoshop 7 and stayed with 6 as the new features irritated me more than impressed me.

dimitrios_c- I will start posting my 3D work when they stop s.u.c.king. :D

[pabbloz]

more posts and I can't believe it yet!

I couldn't ever imaginate someone could do this with the computer :eek:

(that's a pity I can't rate a again haha!)

[erikals]

BEATIFUL :wip:

[Phobia4]

:speechless

[Nightwing]

Hi :)

First post here, just HAD to comment, that work is gorgeous!

Looking forward to seeing some more of your work :thumbsup:

Cheers

[Dr BeN]

First of all .... you're not selling any posters at the moment ;) are u ? if not you should consider it !

i just wanted to say that for a "noob" as you call yourself you caused a LOT of action in this Forum you got nearly TWICE as many views as the one with the second place !
7064 to 3903 ich think you can be proud of yourself !!
:applause: BRAVO !! :applause:

And don't you dare stop painting or even worse POSTING !



ps: i think i fell in love with the Princess :D

[kfc]

Lunatique~! I hope you will check this out. i did some animations from your drawing.
:)

Animation of one of the girl (http://kfc.wd2.org/charactersetup/uploads/great.exe)

Cheers~!

[OggieBoogie]

Favourite-------->Add to favourite


:bounce: :thumbsup: :applause: :eek: :wip:


"People that just don't "get it"-- They are the ones that yawn during a brilliant film because "it didn't have any explosions." Or, they are fans of current pop sensations created by the greedy record companies. It would even be ok if these people showed some preference for works of substance every once a while, but sadly, most of them are shallow from head to toe, 24/7. Because of the shallow taste of the mass public, many excellent creative works are obscure, and their creators can barely make a living while undeserving hacks are making millions. "

Yepp, we are speaking the same language, im glad someone has pointed this out.

[J. Epp (Moksha)]

Very nice light airbrush style, one small minute thing, on the cameron diaz, i believe ? or the first painting, i would say that the crease between her elbow, the bicep and forearm, needs a believable crease or fold. Her breasts are a bit to big, the don't hang believable, and is mostly covered in black, i would put a subtle navy blue on the under or over side of breast, i can't remember, i would have to lookat the pic again. The hair locks by the right ear should be a bit darker lik in the upper like in the upper portion of hair, and the hump that's by the right hand on the lower side of the wrist should be shaved down a little. Not sure if you used photo reference and whether or not that's how it was in the photo, sometimes reality looks fake and you must put in artisitic merit. :thumbsup:

[Dis]

*paralyzed*

[GrafixArts]

Very Impressive work man!!!!

i like it alot...


keep posting.... :)

Cheers :beer:

[anhedonite]

Wow...I got on my computer to check my email and was almost late to work because I saw your thread. (shoulda remembered I work on a computer and coulda just gone to work). Absolutely amazing work! I have no doubt that you will soon be awesome in 3d. you defintely have talent! Wouldn't mind seeing your stuff that "sucks"!

[Dennik]

:eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:

Man please don't do 3D work, let me have a purpose for living, as a mediocre 3D "artist".

[Norante]

I'm depressed :annoyed: :annoyed: :annoyed:


Just incredible.

[hiko_]

amazing incredible .... gniiiii :hmm:

[Lunatique]

Wow, thanks for all the awesome replies! :love: You guys sure know how to make a stranger feel welcome!

Dr BeN- Nope, no poster selling. I don't think there's enough demand to attempt such a thing.

I was very surprised when cgchannel contacted me to tell me that I was featured on the front page. Really freaked me out. Couldn't have happend at a better forum, since this is my favorite 3D forum. :D

The Princess has stolen many hearts, but she's still single. ;)

kfc- wahahahahaha!! At first, I thought it was a spoof of one of Steven Stahlberg's test animations where the woman yells "Bastard!" My GF got a kick out of it too. We refer to the Princess as our daughter, since we always say that we wish when we have a daughter in the future, she'll be as pretty as the Princess. :)

[Lunatique]

OggieBoogie- Heheheh. I didn't know people actually bothered to read my rants. Glad you agree.

J. Epp (Moksha)- Thanks for the crits. I'll look into it when I have some free time. I'm so swamped with unfinished paintings that older, finished work might have to wait for fixes. BTW, she's not anyone famous. Just a pic of a fashion chick I was inspired by. I never copy references blindly. In fact, I make it a point to do something original whenever I use references.

Another thing-- I never use the airbrush tools, in Painter or Photoshop. Always just the brushes. The first piece was actually painted with just the palette knife tool in Painter.

Dis- MEDIC!! (I'm a Team Fortress fan)

anhedonite- Don't be late! Pissy boss makes a bad day at work. ;)

Right now, I'm just trying to familiarize myself more with Maya's tools. I'm about to start on my first serious human model(a cute chick, of course ;)) after I finish off one more tutorial. I'll be posting her in the WIP section for people to laugh at soon. . ..

Dennik- There's NO guarantee that my 3D work will be any good. For all I know, they could end up on Gallerie Abominate!(http://www.jackals-forge.com/abom.html)

Norante- Please don't be. I feel the same way when I see works by guys at Square, Tecmo, Namco..etc, but that just makes me want to try harder. Let's inspire each other and help each other grow! :D

[levin]

and you call yourself a NOOB. great. i have just descended to sub-human levels.

[Sevarf2]

Grateful:eek:
You are a monster!!!

[George]

All I can say is...
holy lord

your work is....stunning.
I love it...I'm speechless

[Drayven]

Lunatique, good to see you on on this forum. i've seen your work on several others and have been equally impressed. I especially love that side potrait of Tina. Because of your work i am now using Photoshop for painting more than just textures and am trying to learn Painter. i look forward to seeing your 3D work and i'm sure your photography skills will help with proper lighting and set design. Great job! :thumbsup:

[SheepFactory]

Originally posted by Norante
I'm depressed :annoyed: :annoyed: :annoyed:


Just incredible.


me too :annoyed:

[Roy]

:thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
5 star!
look better than 3d!

Who can tall me where can download Painter?Hard to find.

[Norante]

Hello Lunatic.

I was kidding :applause:

Anyway, I cant find words enough to congratulate you for your wonderful job. I'm looking forward to see more.

And I'm in love with the Princess...:love:

Keep up the good work, and keep getting better.

Regards

[thinKer3D]

::Lunatique, your work is impressively addictive. Your Photoshop and Painter skills add to my bank of collective inspiration::

:: thank you! :::buttrock:

[sad]

wonderfull. the first one is great!

[Lunatique]

Hey, thanks you guys. I was surprised to find this thread still going. Man, you guys are giving me pressure to make sure my 3D stuff will be just as well received... :p

Roy- Dude, I hope my models of the Princess would look as good as yours!:eek:

[alchoi]

I will find you

And I will eliminate you ...

(Just kidding)

All I can say is wow ...

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