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manati20 [2022-09-04 06:10:19 +0000 UTC]

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ObsidianObscure [2015-01-13 08:50:46 +0000 UTC]

Lemme just say im very impressed with the amount of love and dedication you put into your work... but im also quite disappointed in terms of the realism. I do understand that you are still working up on your skills as a digital artist.. but there is simply something about this picture that doesnt make it look realistic. 

I have been exploring highly sophisticated digital artwork created by other users and i have been taking various techniques based off of their works for quite some time. Im not too sure if you do the same... but if you dont, i suggest you should.

Lemme tell you what I like about this:

- Smoke and the Skulls: Those skulls on the warrior's armour truly bring out his inner badass and are quite captivating if you know where to look. The smoke in the background as well as the blue-ish smoke coming out of the skull on his shoulder pad also adds to the same badass effect

- The sword: While the sword may be hard to see, given a little bit of Dodge tool and some highlighting in your layers might help bring out the edges of the sword as well as the runes/letters carved into the blade. Its a nice touch to such a massive... uh... creature?... but i feel unsatisfied by the lack of detail on the blade... i mean... as a person who loves futuristic and realistic artwork, especially futuristic weaponry... i sorta expected to see some serious detail on the blade... perhaps i wanted to see more of the blade... more of what it had to offer...

- The battle in the background: Very nice. Definitely adds onto the mood depicted... in fact, its the battle that really sets the mood. But even as badass as it looks... i once again feel deeply unsatisfied. Because if you look at the background, the soldiers in the background are merely heads! And while there is a little bit of torso showing, not much of a battle if you cant tell whats going on. While i understand that perhaps there is some flame/smoke/fog stuff happening over there in the battlefield, its a little too much smoke if you ask me. I would personally refrain from using so much smoke... and even if I did, i would give my users something more to look at.

- The mountains in the background: Its a nice touch to add... but it feels a little bit off... i mean, ive seen your work in the past with landscape art and that mountain... its just... off... Mountains dont usually just spike up like that, they build up and up and up, kinda like a cone, but not round, smooth... and they also have layers, lots of layers, like mountain trails if you look at them from afar... or perhaps they are hills obstructing your line of sight, depending on the perspective.

- Sky: The sunset-like sky for me really helps develop the mood... but the mood kinda ends quickly considering the red sunset fades into this murky sort of deep blue instead of a deep blue-black mix. While i understand the sunset does really look like that realistically, i feel there isnt enough shading on those clouds... and the fact that looking from right to left... the clouds go from fluffy-like to water waves... kinda off... and the blue skull smoke in front of the wavy clouds doesnt help much >
The things i was kinda disappointed in:

- Shading: While I understand you are trying to make it look really nice and realistic, the level of shading in some areas is in my opinion, kinda absurd... i mean even while the Death Knight is in the front of the picture, the most badass parts of his figure are hidden from us due to the mass amount of shading. Ive already said above that I REALLY wished i could see the sword more... same applies for some over regions of his body... like his left knee has that skull kneecap. I didnt notice it at first, which is kinda bad considering those skull caps are seriously badass... Stuff like that should stand out a little bit more, regardless of where the light in the picture is coming from... because deep down, everyone knows, skulls are awesome and you can manipulate the awesomeness of the picture to really REALLY bring out that awesomeness inside the skull... Like what I would do is add some of that nice smoke, or some blue lights coming out of the skull, just so the highlights brought on by the lights could really bring out the detail in the skulls...

- The Smoke: The smoke coming out of the shoulder skull... as said above in different locations is kinda off... but what disturbs me the most is that the leftmost smoke wave thing, it WAY too wavy! Kinda strange where you see a pillar of black stuff in your light blue smoke... >< really wavy too.... Meanwhile i dont really draw a lot of smoke in my art... but regardless, i have that feeling deep down as an artist... that smoke is really disturbing. Also i want to say, the wavy smoke was one of the things that captivated me first! XD... i had that sense of "WTF is that?... oh wait... holy shit, its smoke!"


I would keep going... but I just spend a damn hour typing all of this up... and just thinking and looking over the image took like 20 minutes... >👍: 0 ⏩: 2

Black-Sweater [2015-01-03 06:22:06 +0000 UTC]

Lol Arthas got nothing on this<3
Pure Bad ass XD

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RobShields [2015-01-02 23:41:46 +0000 UTC]

nice one man really diggin his armor

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Jacob-Cross [2014-12-31 07:35:12 +0000 UTC]

Cool

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tndrhrtd37 [2014-12-28 17:27:15 +0000 UTC]

Fantastic piece...

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October--Rust [2014-12-28 07:38:25 +0000 UTC]

Brutally painted, love it.

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AryaaSolipsism [2014-12-28 04:03:41 +0000 UTC]

Woah man, that's really cool!

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