characters: lovers

#21

great great great painting.

I love it. wish you would do more of this kind. I checked you website and there is few of this style.

It reminds me of Justin Bua www.justinbua.comwww.justinbua.com.
(this is a compliment…I love his work:))

Naz

#22

Hehe, brad, ur one lucky sonofabitch.

This is very good. Itrestin to see a pair of lovers, who, rather than perfect, are dark and dynamic. Fittingly unfit for eachother. very good!!

#23

His exaggerated limbs remind me of the teepee of wood you’d picture in a campfire scene. The way they angle around her, enclosing her, in a protective way, she represents his flame, his muse. The tones and colors of the scene are like a warm hearth. Her downcast eyes I don’t associate with sadness as some have said, but they represent introspection, you could even say that she does not represent his mate so much as his inner self, his inner fire.

Very nice piece.

#24

Dang, for some reason CGTalk stopped emailing me when people posted to this piece. I had no idea people were still looking at it. I never imagined there would be so many interpretations from it. That’s cool. Glad you all liked the painting.

I really dig the ‘the background is the music that connects them’ interp and also the ‘guy is the firewood and the girl is his flame’ one. Those ring very true with me.

Nazgul, I’ll do more like this once I get through with my freelance work. Just finishing up some projects then I’ll be done with freelancing for a while.

DirtySkillet, who’s brad (if you ever read this)?

.hethe

#25

This is great work. I think some of you are missing an eye for art, or something. It could be personal taste. Who knows.

#26

Very nice In my opinion this scene demonstrates that he is an tyrant and the dicktator of the relationship and she is forced to be with him and is unhappy and depressed about that Its a beutyfull scene as well as have a great theme it is also very well painted technically

well done

#27

&^%& server busy !!

I like the characters the most . They look really good … i dont think the
guy looks ugly mabye just angry or disapointed. And the girl is beautifull.

2 things i didnt like

-her knees make her look like she is a burn victim
-they would look better if put into perspective on a couch for example.
I dont like the fact that they are floating on thin air.
I really think if you put them in a good background you would
definietly have something amazing.

#28

first emotion impressions
Haven’t read every post but what cought me is that the guy has a pose with his arms and hands as if to catch the girl in case she does a runner, the look on his face is one of “don’t stand there waiting for a chance to pick her up” and to her “don’t you dare take a runner coz I’ve got long arms and I’ll catch you anyway” Style is great, love the colors and strokes, and the calm but sad expression in the girl. What is she listening to? Music from home ? Maybe she’s sad coz she can’t go back home because of her forbidden love.

#29

First off, this is a beautiful and powerful piece of work. I just reread your original statement and realized that the source pic is of you and your wife. Hope I don’t touch on some sensitive topics in my critique.

The girl: I don’t see her “taking a runner”. Her body language – knees and head turned toward him, hair draped over his arm – indicates that she trusts and wants to be there with him. Her casual dress indicates that she’s not putting on airs and she doesn’t feel the need to impress him.

#30

Sorry, I posted that before I was ready.

The guy: I was originally thrown by his odd proportions, but I think it really adds to the picture. Where the girl is drawn accurately, he seems awkward by contrast, and may mirror his self-image (maybe he believes the beauty & the beast metaphor too). He’s got overly broad shoulders, so he’d be able to protect her and share her burdens. His arms are long, but they’re draped around her, rather than enveloping and smothering her. His eyes seem to be on her, trying to discern her thoughts, and he wears a skeptical expression. It reminds me of a John Cusack line from the film “Say Anything”: “Are you here because you need SOMEBODY or are you here because you need ME?”

The scene as a whole: Since they’re both listening to headphones, there’s a separateness between them although they’re sharing the moment. I can’t tell if she’s sad or content, but she appears to prefer the silence, while it makes him pensive and uncomfortable. I like the background – I think with a formal background people would take the scene much more literally and you wouldn’t have generated such an involved and interesting thread here. Besides, the brown winding shapes complement the guy’s arms. They suggest roots, a stability and strength that he provides to her.

Colors are great, background is great and the girl is beautiful. The only flaw I see is his left leg – it’s out of scale with the disproportionately long right leg. I suggest lengthening the short one rather than shortening the long one (lol), especially since that hole in the knee looks so good as it is.

#31

As soon as I happened upon this thread and saw the picture I had an immediate impression… I checked to see I wasn’t repeating anyone else, but it seems no one else saw it like this…

The colours remind me of some depiction of hell I guess… So I immediately thought that guy is the devil - maybe not the devil - but a guy who has that dark and sinister aura some girls find attractive… and just the way he looks to have been painted around the girl, she’s not actually aware he is there - that is why her hand doesn’t touch/caress him.

But he is the man she’s thinking about or that she’s hearing about through the headphones…

:slight_smile:

Why does it evoke this - both the beautiful colouring you have used and the contrast in style/detail (not sure which until I go back and look again) between the girl and her surroundings. It’s like the world around her is something created by her thoughts or the music she’s listening too.

Thanks for a special image!

#32

Expressively, evocatively this picture has a accomplished eclectic ease about it. It communicates an essential idea of shared pleasure, male/female intimacy, to the temporary exclusion of an unpredictable world. The contrasts between the mannish and feminine traits of the characters are charming and the “beastly” aspects of the male give us a universal entry point into the image. The stylizations and eclectic devices such as the comic book treatment of the girls hair and perky bosum, the master’s, model book formulation for the male’s hands, and the painterly, die Brucke treatment of the natural background are well enlisted to deliver the theme. In fact, the less than totally seemless integration gives the work an honesty, and sense of illustrator’s pragmatism.

#33

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