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So, everyone seems to be doing a little copying from favored painters & illustrators so I thought I would throw in my 2 cent.

This is from Kay Nielsen. I really love all of his work. Especially for the East of the Sun and West of the Moon book. :)

Not done yet, and the lady needs some reworking of the torso and head, but better then nothing!

Ref: http://www.ralphbakshi.com/blog/archives/sunmoon03.jpg

9 comments – latest 4:

Teapot (Feb 27, 2010)

I bought all the illustrations from that book in card form about...erm...30 years ago. Still have them. Still love them. This is very, very pretty and has captured the feeling of his work.

Layne (Feb 27, 2010)

I am glad you like it. They republished the east of the sun and west of the moon about two(?) years ago in a really nice hardcover edition. :) I was so glad when i saw because while I had a book of his illustrations I really wanted to be able to read the stories that went along with all of his illustrations.

enjoydotcom (Feb 27, 2010)

Very attractive style, those soothing colors are great.

It would be a great contest, draw from your favorite artist. In his or her style.

mursku (Feb 27, 2010)

when i compare your piece with the original, the first thing that pops to my eyes is that the original looks like it was made with watercolors, while yours looks too smooth, there's hardly any texture.. i liked the texture you had going in the fifth version.
if you wanted to have texture like in the original painting, an easy (and quick!) way to do it, would be with a scatter brush (choose a high scatter count and you can maybe crank up the spacing too) on a separate layer. that way you can easily erase the eventual wayward dots from unwanted areas, and you can also play around with the blend mode and opacity (make it subtle)

..hmm, another thing that i noticed was that the original was much more sharper (darker and thinner lines).. i suck at line art so i'll not gonna try to give you any advice on that. You would only get worse if i tried to teach you line art :P

Untitled

Suntan (Apr 15, 2010)

photoref

16 comments – latest 4:

Suntan (Apr 17, 2010)

Thank you! :))

starsh (Apr 20, 2010)

love it, beautiful work...and indeed the reflection on the floor looks great!

bette_davis_eyes (Apr 20, 2010)

so colorful! awesome draw suntan :)

Suntan (Apr 21, 2010)

Thanks very much you guys. :)

I love the chosen one.

enirroc (Apr 18, 2010)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRsekFYkCDM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lxj4SIVqL24&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dz2szNKnsXo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaqo2IhH4kw&feature=channel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCuUnTJgD9M&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ldQggHj78I&feature=channel

8 comments – latest 4:

Suntan (Apr 19, 2010)

You did a good job on the lettering, too.

enirroc (Apr 19, 2010)

Thank you. =)

ZombifiedSammich (Apr 20, 2010)

I'm old gregg. (:

enirroc (Apr 20, 2010)

Haha, mangina!

Orange Rain

liebe (Apr 19, 2010)

Timer obviously lies.. I can't draw in just one sitting, ever.
Getting used to my tablet still, I'm very rusty with oekaki.
This is Rain btw.. ;)

13 comments – latest 4:

starsh (Apr 20, 2010)

love it, beautiful!

Miss_DJ (Apr 20, 2010)

Wonderful colors and shading! I agree about the 2 fingers, but the rest is outstanding!

elly (Apr 20, 2010)

refreshing =) welcome!

bette_davis_eyes (Apr 20, 2010)

very nice!

"Charlie" My Maltese Puppy

lynnandcharlie (Mar 2, 2010)

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enirroc (Apr 19, 2010)

I think you've gotten remarkably better since you've joined the site. I suggest you just keep practicing and draw more and more. If you'd like to expand your style, you can study the work of others, carefully analyze how they draw things, the brush strokes, the use of light, the color scheme, everything. Start out slow with easier types of paintings to try and work from. I've learned that if you start with hard pieces as references, no matter how determined you are, unless you've got the needed amount of skill, there's a good chance you'll just end up real unhappy and frustrated with your result. At least that's what happens to me. Challenging yourself can be good though. You could research some different styles of art, and do a painting for each. I should do that myself, I'd like to improve my work as well and work more out of my comfort zone. Like I said before though, you're improving quite a lot by the day, so I'm sure you've achieve your goals of expanding your style. =)

lynnandcharlie (Apr 19, 2010)

thanks enirroc

Flubbles (Apr 19, 2010)

The novelty soon wears off.

lynnandcharlie (edited Apr 19, 2010)

LOLZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ flubbles you read everything thats written?

Long ago...

elly (Apr 18, 2010)

Used burn tool set on max scattering for most of this..no ref, just messin' =)

7 comments – latest 4:

firecracker (Apr 18, 2010)

I like these kinds of bizarre, sorta spooky, kinda draws.....very cool!! :)

elly (Apr 19, 2010)

thanks, L&C, Dave, enirROC and FC! These are fun to do!

Miss_DJ (Apr 19, 2010)

really nice, Elly!

elly (Apr 19, 2010)

Thank you kindly, Miss DJ =)

Guard Dog

lynnandcharlie (Apr 17, 2010)

5 comments – latest 4:

lynnandcharlie (Apr 18, 2010)

thanks FC

enirroc (Apr 18, 2010)

Nice job on this.

lynnandcharlie (Apr 18, 2010)

thanks enirroc

davincipoppalag (Apr 18, 2010)

Pretty work

Trish

enirroc (Apr 13, 2010)

This is going to be a drawing of my mom's man's sister Trish. She's a DJ.

15 comments – latest 4:

lynnandcharlie (Apr 17, 2010)

its just a habit of mine

shults (Apr 18, 2010)

brilliant cut. I love playing with the bg

enjoydotcom (Apr 18, 2010)

Concurring with Shults :D.

enirroc (Apr 18, 2010)

Thanks guys. I think I like this background, sorta reminds me of a poster or a billboard that's not so 2d. I hope this'll look good when it's completely finished.