... and Nasir and Gareth. Ena? She's lagging behind, I guess. The dragons are returning to the mountains of Goldoa now that balance has been restored.
I was super ecstatic about this one when I first came up with the sketch. This picture is not nearly as amazing as it seemed in my head -- it's not that the painting sucks, but the vision, it was simply too beautiful for me to do justice. (I'm sure many of you artists can relate to that!)
EDIT: Expanding on the whole 'it looked better in my head' thing. I'm not blaming it on my hands. That would be silly.
The real issue is that the image in my head is unclear and incomplete, like recollections of a dream, even if it seems complete and beautiful to my conscious mind. If it were a complete image, like a photograph, I'd be able to paint it as well as I could by eyeballing a real photo.
An artist gets better not just by improving the hand-eye coordination (which is only a small fraction IMO), but also by forming more complete visions in their head. I have a long, long way to go.
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Painted in Adobe Photoshop 7.0 from scratch. Some textures from cgtextures.com; others from my self-made brushes.
Very classical, quite inspiring, and well-executed. Makes me want to work with colours myself, and I definitly will try it soon.
And, yes, I can very, very well relate to what you're saying. I guess that creating something which turns out as good as the picture you have in your head before going to work ist the only form of perfection that artwork can achieve. Never managed to do it myself, and I guess that won't change for a long, long time- which is good, because true perfection means as much as the loss of the motivation to learn and improve, I think. And I don't want to miss that.
Hmm, I don't quite agree with perfection = loss of motivation thing. If I were perfect, I'd still be painting. I remember when I was little, I was convinced that I sucked and I hid all my pictures because I was so embarrassed of their quality. Things like improvement were completely over my head. I still spent hours every day drawing, though!
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And yes, I can relate. Everything looks better in my head. :/
And, yes, I can very, very well relate to what you're saying. I guess that creating something which turns out as good as the picture you have in your head before going to work ist the only form of perfection that artwork can achieve. Never managed to do it myself, and I guess that won't change for a long, long time- which is good, because true perfection means as much as the loss of the motivation to learn and improve, I think. And I don't want to miss that.
Good work, keep it up.
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