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"Focus"-
"A mountain never shifts, never waivers for neither snow, nor rain, nor howling wind.
And thereby, never falls"
Nirogan Proverb of the Fourth era.
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I've done a lot of livestream pics, and though it's an easy process to work with, I don't wanna limit myself to just one style. So I took a more painterly approach. No fancy layer thingies, no gradient brushes, just colors, and a single gaussian blur overlay. Pretty content with how it turned out! You likey?
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What a dramatic picture of Stryder in this! He reminds me as a samurai! His pose and expression are so magnificent! Full of seriousness!
I really love the brush strokes, the colouring, the shadings and highlights, the effects, the tiny details and the background! Perfect, accurate and professional! I really want to applaud you for your very hard work!
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Now, THIS is a fancy piece. The one gripe I have is with the slightly awkward edges that make up Strider's outline. Outside of that, I rather enjoy the dimensionality of this painterly piece, and I believe you should become more practiced in this style.
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wow that is really amazing!!! I like the texture you put here
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It's always great to see different styles, I really like this!
Nice approach you've taken here <3
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Man...that looks AMAZING! It's like an actual painting that you've seen at a art gallery 
Amazing job, My friend!
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Hmmm... Great to see something different from you, I appreciate the work and the proverb that mended this piece.
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This is absolutely beautiful. I'll admit, I was getting a little tired of the livestream style.
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this is quite impressive. i generally liked your work for its clean colors and sharp quality. ut i have to say id like to see more of this painted style. looks good.
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Lineless styles are always a pain to get definition on, the spikes are excedingly well done in this respect, definitly like the whole feel to it
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looks pretty damn epic! :3 the only thing i would say is maybe blend your colors a bit more, not everywhere i mean his spines look amazing! but maybe on his hand a little, since i think you lost a bit of definition of the fingers.
BUT DONT LISTEN TO ME! i probably dont know what im talking about :3 over all i really love that your trying a new style it looks great :3
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Yeah, I need to blend more. Still I think it was a good run.
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yeah it was definately a good run now all yah need to do is perfect it :3
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Stryder's FOCUSING ON SOMETHING?! HOLY CRAP!
Dude, this is epic. Great job.
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Oh my!! 
This truly amazing, I love the mixture of colors, soft colors and the magic that this is growing, I love this style, is so GREAT!
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Glad you likey! It honestly feels more like art to me that way
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"A mountain never shifts, never waivers for neither snow, nor rain, nor howling wind.
And thereby, never falls"
-Although it does get shorter.
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YOU'RE MISSING THE DANG POINT!!!
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... glad you like it though.
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Pretty nifty. Looks like an old watercolor..
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i do believe that this style certainly gives alot more power to the depth perception of the image, especially with the hair. also i feel that the limits you imposed upon yourself for this task have taken away from your ability to portray things like textures. But when you step away from the microscope and look at the picture as a whole, i see a "man" with his determination battling the elements to complete his quest set before him.(or survival training or whatever)
as always, this is fabulous work
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Kinda looks like a samurai Silver
A very epically cool one
A very dynamic one too XD
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It kinda reminds me of bleach...what were there names. Oh yea Quincy
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Huh what now?
Sorry, I don't watch Bleach
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just an anime that I just started watching the outfit looks very similar to some of them
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That is a really unique look, I'm digging it. And we were over due for a Niroga Stryder piece. I do gotta say, the "scribbles," on the left edge in the background kinda stick out like a sore thumb. That aside, this looks great and I think you hit a very easy, yet great looking formula for this. In fact, this might ever spur the idea of multiple style options for your livestreams! Think that's an idea?
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I would offer the option if it didn't take so long. But glad you like it!
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Aw, that's a shame. Still, nice work though!
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This is a really cool painting here!
Like the soft touches on the coloring and lighting and his pose and expression looks really awesome!
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i personally like it
mostly the spikes looks pretty stunning
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