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LadyEntropy — The Mind is the Sword - Final
Published: 2004-11-24 12:02:53 +0000 UTC; Views: 6059; Favourites: 80; Downloads: 354
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This is a picture I'm going to offer as a prize for a L5R tournament.It's still on it's early stages (the scene will be on a desolate battle field, with dead people and broken weapons all around), but the background is pratically done, although the sun needs to be redone.
Samurai done in pencil from reference from a picture from The Last Samurai movie, and then coloured. The background took about 2 hours, using Corel Photo-Paint and a mouse.
EDIT: Well, a few more details were added, such as the broken banner, the dead man in the distance, the trashed katana etc etc... I was going to put a dead oponnent at the samurai's feet, but I think it would overcrowd the picture, so I decided not to.
The sun and the clouds got a massive remake, and I added the Kanjis for "Peace" and "War", because the original print will have the saying "Let he who desires peace be ready for war." in portuguese. Not bad for a first attempt at fully drawing a landscape.
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Please don't. My artistic ability is very small and shy and when it is worshiped she tends to go hide in the kitchen cupboard and not leave for a fortnight.
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*Inserts Heavy Critique here upon request*
Awesome piece!!
I really like the clouds *Has a fixation with clouds*
Clouds must be what I critique most in many many pics, but I can't find any possible critique to yours.
The samurai, well, somehow I find his stance unnatural, it probably is the extended arm that makes it look so, the triceps is sorta superdeveloped and makes the rest of the arm to looks disproportioned, or maybe could be the elbow that is in place but "a dobra está fora de alinhamento com o cotovelo."
Com respeito ao background, está impressionante, e eu pessoalmente não mudaria nada ^_^
Já o Samurai, bom *points to the correspondant paragraph*.
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This is awesome!
Your colors are wonderful, composition is great, the sunset reflecting off the samurai's arms is very neat and this would make an insanely cool L5R card.
I think the only thing I can even critique on is the post in the distance to the left of the figure is remarkably clear for being so far away and near the sunset. Is that something huge?
Please keep doing great work like this, Sakura-san!
--Jed
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Very nice, the colors here are lovely. I like the silhouette effect, and how things are blurrier with the distance like the flags.
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lindaum lindaum lindaum!!!!!! o fundo ficou muito show!
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Awwww... brigadão! VC sempre diz as coisas mais lindas!
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Excelent! I have a thing for this kind of theme, but this looks great beyond personal taste.
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^^ ficou otimo adorei a composição do fundo
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^_^ brigadão... ainda vou postar a versão MESMO final...
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Tell me, if the mind is the sword, what part of the body would be... the tetsubo?
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I refuse to talk unless in the presence of my lawyers.
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^_^ ESpero que seja porque te agradou... não porque te meteu nojo
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nossa!!!! legal demais!!!!!!!! o fundo está quase perfeito!!! meus parabéns!!!!!!!!!!!
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Brigadão... ainda vou postar uma ultima versão... porque nesta aqui as nuvens ficaram amarelas...
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ah sim, mas tá lindo do mesmo jeito!!!!!!!!!!!
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So, what kind of tournament? So I can come compete of course. This piece is very awesome.
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Well, it's a L5R CARD tournament, in portugal... it will be a theme tournament, so if you want to drop by, just let me know and I'd love to have you here.... ^_^
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OH, portugal you say... Lemme check my frequent flyer miles...
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Brigada pelo seu FAV....
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Awesome I love the feel of it
Your zen is good
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Zen is goood... yes yes.... gooooooood.
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It looks very beautiful! The colours are warm and creates a great contrast for the silhouette. And I love how the trees and grass to the right is a bit blurred. It really adds to the realism.
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Well, a friend of mine who is an excellent artist taught me that the further things are in the distance, the more blurred they are, so I tried to give an impression of distances by "cheating" -- when I put blurred trees in the right.
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Since it came from you, i expect something very cool!
(Just don't forget my request, please)
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^_^Thank you... and I WON'T forget your request.
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indeed, it reminds me of the last samurai.. excellent work as it is
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Thank you... it's my first attempt at doing something so.... landscapy, since I do truly and utterly SUCK at doing backgrounds....
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