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Published: 2012-06-04 09:14:46 +0000 UTC; Views: 293; Favourites: 2; Downloads: 3
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This is another grey-scale pic I've made. I did this to practice values and environment painting and also for fun
. Kept this simple so I didn't try to do too much and mess it up. Enjoy .
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Thanks for the positive comment but I am not particularly proud of this one as the shadows are not quite right 
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Mm it's hard to get them all in the right direction with the light source...but yeah any practice is good!
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You bet plus working in greyscale to start off with can be really beneficial. At least that is what Matt Kohr says anyway.
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Is he the guy that runs CtrlPaint? Man I need to do some of the exercises on there for practice ><
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Yep that's him. The homework he sets is incredibly helpful and there is even a ctrlpaint group on deviantart now!
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looks really good! I can imagine a character popping its head around the corner or taking a strole in it
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Thanks I did really enjoy painting this one. It is cartoony which is what I love, should probably do more of these and will tomorrow
Have you been dng any environment stuff lately? Just a question seeing as you have been designing characters as well and also a great story to boot 
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Thats good you should do what you enjoy!
I have all the enviroment in my head for both Koterana (The planet) and Anaretok (The alternet dimention that is Koterana spellt backwards) I really need to get them on paper though.
I need to gather a small colection of photos of the great out doors as refrence
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Good advice and I shall follow it
Ok well just get them down on paper and do some thumbnail sketches to see what perspective and composition works best, should be awesome.
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Will do 
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Look up this guy called, James Gurney. He created Dinotopia and the environments there were awesome, he also has a book on amazon called, Colour and Light: a guide for the realist painter.
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I have a poster of that book! 
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Yea he is and he is a natural media person as well which is great! I really do like looking at the exposé traditional artists in imagine fx though they only ever feature two at a time.
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Yeah it is a shame they only feature two at a time I remember seeing some ones dragon paintings being featured in there and they were astonashing! I loved how they painted them!
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I know, some of the oil and watercolour painters they feature are something else, really. I love watercolour pencils so any art in that medium is ok in my books
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I love painting in watercolours and need to do so more often. Theres just something about watercolours that really appels me. How about you?
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Well I am very much into watercolour pencils as they have more controll but just good old watercolour is nice but at the moment oils are good for me
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Indeed! I am the same though I normaly use a combonation of paints and pencils.
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Yea mixed media can work really well traditionally or digitally.
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Nice one mate, I like the very stylized approach to this piece. Really like it, looks like it could be a potential background for an animated cartoon.
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Thank you that means a lot. Yep I did think abut it as an animation background when competed.
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Yeah I think it would look cool as one.
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Yes though you would have to decide what the character would do and where in the scene like if they coming towards you or going away, walking or running and such.
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