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Published: 2007-09-23 10:42:37 +0000 UTC; Views: 58997; Favourites: 1077; Downloads: 1147
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Because of too much work and other issues, I haven’t had as much time as I wanted to paint personal pieces lately, and this is the result of that. I’ve been working on this on and off for about 2 months, which is not how I usually work at all. I felt that I lost the connection with this piece so I just decided to finish it before ruining it further
Again, another Call of Cthuhlhu inspired piece, and the guy is kind of a portrait of myself. Don’t ask why :-P
Painted using Photoshop and a Wacom tablet. Reference used for the character.
Close-ups and progress steps on my site: [link]
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Holy hell....This is so intense. I wish I had that kinda lieger time inbetween fighting monsters..
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I esp. love the skintones and the relaxed pose
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This is of course a highly accomplished scene of an incredible standard. But what marks it out for me is the great character exuding from the gentleman.
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lazy, cheap smile man.
(it realy good by the way)
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Veeeery cool work m8 
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Argh... once more your mad skills turn me green with adobe envy. Well-played, sir... well played.
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wow! Your office looks like a mess
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Wow and hardly a scratch on him. definatly don;t want to be on the reciving end of that guy. Awesome work.
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Holy mother of God that's amazing. And what the hell is that creature? I can't even make sense of it...
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wow >__> The bottle stands out for me for some reason... amazing
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hahha, I love it! I didn't think that that would be anyone but you. The guts on that thing look so real too, so real that its actually disgusting! haha, good job!
Hey, did I miss it, or have you and Tascha not yet done that collaboration that I recall you mentioning?
I think it would be cool to see you two do some sort of portrait/charictiture, maybe even a time piece with the both of you. Any thoughts?
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We have done a couple of things, but mostly because I had to help her out because of her health situation. Like for example: [link] and [link]
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oh, i remember those, i had forgotten that she had done the conceptual sketches for those
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PERFECTION!!!!! The emotion that strikes from the first glimpts (spelling?) is hardcore and relateable. Very powerful and beautiful
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Awesome. Very nicely detailed and colored.
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holy smokes henning , I think your personal works are my favorites of all your work. I LOVE the bloody tentacle casually draped over his shoulder.
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What is this starting in grey-scale thing? I honestly don't get how you can paint an entire image in B/W and then suddenly make it colour o0?
But anyway - it's beautiful, and I loved looking at the process.
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I wouldn't want to stop and have a smoke, personally. It must smell *awful* in there.
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makes me think of R. Zelazny's characters; always calm and self-assured, a what happens happens dude
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wonderful work man!
I love that lamp, I've always been fascinated by those green lamps, and I like so much how you played with light here.
His pose his gorgeous, just relaxing after having killed some aliens right?
Great work with the bottle and great work with perspective as well..
Definitely a
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yea those lamps are sticky (every movie that requires one - has one 
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nice painting!! solut from singapore
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Awwwesome. I love the morbid scene! Definitely tickles my fancy xD
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I love the shading & detail. 
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Oh-.. My... God.
The detail... The DETAIL is simply stunning. What can I say? What can I say....
fantastic, brilliant, eye popping, deliciously good! The mood, the atmosphere is just astonishing. The detail in everything you put into this is just.. holy wow.
It deffinatly shows and you deffinatly deserve great props for this one m'friend. Great job!
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very cool!! i like Ur rendition to it!
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Utterly flawless work. I love this piece's personality and the mixture of banal imagery and surreal gore = really ace aesthetic! Not to mention your perfect grasp of human anatomy and character and the originality of the creature's design. This has got to be one of the most accomplished images I've seen on DA!
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Two months of work was definitely worth it! It looks so realistic, and I have to mention the wine bottle(if it is a wine bottle), but it looks VERY realistic along with everything else in the painting.
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Nice shoes! ;-P
I kinda prefere these personal artworks. They just reflect our tastes better.
This one is amazing. The contrasts between lights and darks are, as usual, masterly done.
Although this piece was inspired by Call of Cthuhlhu as you said, I immediately remembered Alone in the Dark when I looked at it.
Congratulations for it!!!
Cheers!
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ah, portrettet du nevnte! skikkelig kult - omtrent sånn jeg så det for meg.
deconstructing tentacles...
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How could this ever be spoiled! I cant imagine how you could ever anage that.
This is brilliantthe detail is flawless colors and lighting amazing.
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Don't you just love it when you see a talent for depicting the real world, plunging to the deep dark depths of the imaginary ...
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Excellent work..Thorough professional..Brilliant work 
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OMG, this is AWESOME! Tentacular!
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