Wow this is breathtaking picture! Amazing lights!

Thank you very much, yes was a fun lighting setup, and probably the biggest part of the challange of the picture

You did really well! it's like a piece we could show at an art lesson for good example.

Haha, probably no surprise that my response is "Dear god no!" like the response to that suggest from every artist

An assassin?

Not entierely sure about his profession actually!

Reminds me of Assassin's Creed...

Amazing work, dude!

Thank you very much :)

I love these colors in this so much! I've always admired how rough/textured your paintings are, while still conveying the needed information - for some reason I keep getting drawn to the foot and how it disappears into the wall, but also gets pulled out by the subdued cool light in the front and the really hot warm light in the back. ♥

Your paintings are always a feast for the eyes - whether or not you forget how to draw on your first go, haha!

Haha thank you very much! It's always so incredibly interesting what other people think about your art. Really the thought process with the foot was "Nobody will look here anyway, so this'll be fine" and yet here you are :D And yeah, truth be told i really struggle with textures myself still, it's such a back and forth between some pictures being rougher, some less so. It's tough to really find the sweetspot i want, especially since it's probably a sweetspot that is a movable target depending on the scale of the scene of the picture... but hey, would be a bit boring if it were easy .

Making a mistake or not, it still amazing.
Also, yeah, i know how it feels, it happens a lot when i'm drawing. that's why almost all of my drawings takes 3 hours or so to finish.

Yeah, but it's part of the process, not everything always works out on the first try.

Indeed, sometimes i scrap a drawing completely, but i always take a look at it first so i can see what went wrong.
My drawing skills have come from a lot of observation and trial and error. I never studied at an art school i teach myself by observing art of others and using it as reference to make my own (no, i don't trace any art, just use it as reference).
By the way, i practice so much that i already have a giant pile of drawings in my room, maybe i will post some of those here in FA one day.

good, keep at it! :)

*smiles...

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Absolutely stellar dude <3

Thanks! :D

I've hit that thing where something's wrong and you just have to start over a couple times this week, I know how it goes. You really did wonderful though, keep it up <3

Maybe the learning experience was that even if you couldn't quite put a finger on what it you didn't like your instincts were right.

Possibly! Though hopefully that won't be a lesson that happens too often. I prefer them to be solvable in a quick fashion :D

great work
a new hero watching his city :3

Thank you very much :)

Nice work!

Thank you!

As I stare I keep lewdly halfway hoping a convenient gust of wind will come along.

I had to tone down the wind because of it! The character got a fantastic long scarf that would work perfectly just flowing in the winds in a scene like that. But nooooooo, that would mean it would look kinda strange to have the loincloth just be more or less still... And so the scarf isn't nearly as prominent as it could have been.

I'd say if you're running around the rooftops in a scarf and loincloth candid paintings done by awd's are one of the risks you take.

Looks great though and I can't say from memory if you're tried tackling this type of background and architecture before, definitely looks like a challenge.

Ah i'm sure there were pictures that were similar to some degree :)

Wonderous pic. You always do such amazing work, Nomax!

Thank you very much!

I must know what the is the full word of the neon sign on the bottom right

Nothing specific, just some sort of ship sign. :)

Ohh, this is such a nice picture. :)

Thank you!

Beautiful !
Loving the work on lights and shadows

Thank you :)

...just need the shadow 'lanes' off the form projecting out into the air beyond his form from the bright light from behind him. - probably sallow darkish yellow to red because of the ambient light in the background much darker though on the unlit side facing us though. the lanes would be faint but noticeable in this back-lit illumination light giving a dramatic effect of life.

It would of course create a nearly surreal effect in adding to the dramatic effect. This would add to the realism of the form.

I would have a difficult time in attempting to make a pictorial representation of what i mean, but I've just been researching the Julia fractal plots (http://acko.net/blog/how-to-fold-a-julia-fractal/) in complex mathematics and then saw this drawing. It dawned on me that through James Gurney effects of contrasts you'd see the shadows in darker contrast looking like 'lanes' off the contours of the Kodiacone and the bright light behind him into the darker void of the light illuminating the background.

The lanes would be subtle. they would of course be more noticeable upon the building than on the Kodiacone's form in the light emanating from behind him, they would be near invisible on his form though. really well done though.

I've yet to apply most of James Gurney's instruction to my own artwork yet but I understand the method. I could do in in oils or pigment most probably, but computer art is in light painting nearly the inverse of an opposite to painting in hues.

Thank you, yeah i'm not entirely sure how visible they'd be given that the light in the window is supposed to be pretty diffuse which in turn wuldn't make the shadow very distinct either. Thank you though for taking the time to write it down, i know which effect you mean :)

Amazing and Love it

Thank you very much!

The look from up there must be amazing. As is the view from the viewers point of view.

Good views all around! :D

Beautiful hazy atmosphere... love this piece!

Thank you very much!