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michalivan β The Axe of Bronze
Published: 2008-06-13 22:32:13 +0000 UTC; Views: 69678; Favourites: 2204; Downloads: 2960
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This is a color illustration for a fantasy story with characters from Greek mythology. It will be published in local sci-fi/fantasy mag. It was a faster work than my usual cover stuff.Made from scratch in Photoshop CS3
some B&W ilustrations for this story can be found here:
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Awesome. The light is so hot in this piece. Great tension in the characters & composition.
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Brilliant! The colors and the textures you used are top notch!
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very good lightening.i like the no scrupulous touch,make the pic full of motion! a little more shading and certain detail on the first goblin/is a goblin ,right?/ maybe will do good,but as a hole is impressive
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composition, color balance, textures, dynamics...amazing...spechless...you rule
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Can I put little remark, to not to talk trivial "Wow this is cool!" ?
So: His left hand shines at the same way as armour. That's all.
...forgotten to say: Wow this is cool work!!! 
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Definitely worth the waiting! Gorgeous lighting and awesome brush strokes 
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wow this is really classic!
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velmi pekne...paci sa mi ten farebny rozdiel medzi "hrdinom"a tou hordou ale osobne by som bol radsej v tej horde a vlastnil kyjak nez tu bronzovu sekeru...
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Quite stylish... Looks like oil painting.
Might be unexpected, but my favourite part is the twilight horizon, which deepens the picture a lot. I remain unsure about the lighting on the warrior, but all in all, it's fine.
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... as always great and cool style of painting ...
Regards
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This is a really great piece of art. Got to fav this!
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your a God....a pure π: 0 β©: 0
are you registered at conceptart.org?
waw, good camera angle~
u did this one faster than usual 
from what I see, that detail on that arm with the axe is already time-consuming, if it were me Oo
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great! I like the shine of metal in this pic and the feeling of motion, it's awesome
overall it looks quite sketchy, do they really put it into a cover?
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thanks! no it's not a cover it's just interior illustration for a mag, so it's ok when it's sketchy
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ah, then I understand
well, waiting for more stuff from you
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diky, som rad ze sa ti to paci! tablet mam intuos 2 (A4) taky uz postarsi, je hnusne fijalovy a pero sa mi uz rozpadava, ale inac stale funguje super
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hehe ze fialovy, tyvole
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jaky mas tablet? mne predvcerom akurat dosiel novy Intuosek 3 A5 wide special edition.....akoze je tam airbrush, ale pekna blbost to je...inac super
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sic shit, reminds me of the band 3 inches of blood, their Advance and Vanquish cover art is somewhat similar to this.
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you are very talent my friend
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beautiful : >
it's very dynamic, you can picture in your mind the guy's next move
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Your brushstroke's superb, what kind are of brush are you using? Great work!
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thanks a lot! I use my own custom brushes. some of them are here: [link]
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Wow! Thank you so much! That's very kind of you. Off to try them them ^______^
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I love the textures used and the style of this painting. Really painterly but it works for it and give the painting the ominous mood its supposed to have. Love it. 
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your welcome.
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so what method did you use for this?.. I'm pretty good with photoshop but I wouldn't even know where to start with something like this
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I start with blocking very basick shapes and than adding detail. at every stage I must feel comfortable with it. when I don't I stay at that stage and continue tu change it withot adding detail untill I can feel it again.
You can check how I do my works in this tut [link]
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Kroch kroch, I love the shiny bronze here 
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Looks like spedpaint, but it's great.
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