thats totally epic!! :D beautiful work
it it was me id make the background black and blur it into the image so it looks more realistic :3

Good call! I didn't notice the blue-shifting at the edge that happens with an actual fisheye lens until now, either...

F5!

much better! :D

Excellent job here.

Thanks, dude ^_^

That looks so difficult! Proficient work.

It was fun surfing the web for photos of dogs taken with a fisheye lens to see how the schnoz distorts <3

Omigod this is beautifully painted xD, the tongue is especially amazing, haha. I also love things like the blue on the tip of his nose, the attention to detail in the roses, and overall how the colors flow together throughout the picture. You are so totally rad! Now I have to go draw you a picture

Haha, glad you dig it! And no pressure, obviously -- this was a fun challenge I wanted to tackle anyway <3

(Buuut I'm always stoked to see new art from you so you should probably go draw something right now anyway.)

BAAAAAGH! Back off, back off!

Love this. <3

Haha, I was worried the whole time I was painting this that he'd be less cute than terrifying

Amazingly awesome!

Amazingly thanks!

Nice aspect!

Thanks, man!

That's amazing awesome dude. :)

Did you draw the perspective from the get go, or did you filter it at the end? Either way, very awesome!

Painted it that way to start -- stretching it at the end would be cheating!

Plus, the brush strokes/details would get stretched funny and you'd probably have to repaint a bunch of it anyway...

The photo in the back was just stretched, though, obviously <3 I used Free Transform > Distort rather than using a filter, though, for what that's worth.

Awesome title and work: )

Very romantic and cute!

It's what we do!

and you always do it very well.

that toungue looks very realistic. At first i thought it was a pin, but then i was wrong. Nicely done.

Pin...pinscher? And thanks!

No, a pin as in pin badge, because it's round.

Oh! I see what you mean ^_^

I guess that's an idea for the future!

dr. schnozstein, gentleman caller

I should just do a series of these where I replace the roses with a delivery pizza box, a plumber's toolkit, a pool cleaning net...

That is freaking awesome!

Thanks! ^_^

nicely executed!

It was fun to do!

A friend of mine tried fish eye once, said it was pretty difficult. Anyways, good job at always, I always thought German shepherds had funky looking snouts.

Definitely not something I would've wanted to tackle without the help of some photo reference, but the good news is that there's a ton of that to be found, even since "The Dog" made a fad out of fisheye lens photos of pooches <3

A few minutes of surfing, and I had three or four nice photos to figure him out from ^_^

awww this is very cute

Good deal ^_^ Like I say, I was a bit worried he'd look psychotic for a while there...

Ah, very nice!

Big fan of the fisheye over here:

http://www.furaffinity.net/view/3457116/

Nice shot, and nice subject! That's a lovely building.

Yes, the U-District in Seattle has some wonderful buildings. ^_^

dude!!!
the roses! and that house! this is all kinds of awesome

The house is one of the mansions up in Seacliff, at the end of the Coastal Trail <3 It's just a neighborhood full of hojillion-dollar houses

I know this house! Great to see it's magnificence in a different context!

That photo's totally from the time we walked the trail and popped out into Seacliff ^_^

I would panic and hide in the kitchen if I saw that at my door because I'm so smooth~

Awesome :U

I'm totally in the same boat, I think...

pure awesomeness.

Thanks!

I love the colours and the textures in his tongue. Great job with the fish eye. :D

Thanks! I had a full page of image search results for "fisheye lens" and "dog tongue" up for each. Always helps to know what the heck something is supposed to look like before you try to paint it, haha <3

That is incredibly adorable :3

x3

Haha, thanks, dude ^_^

hahaha beautiful, he looks so sincere!

my birthday is in 2 days in case you wanna do something incredible ; D

Augh, I don't know if my hand will have recovered in two days, haha. Doing something realistic is a fun challenge, but a painful one <3

Have a rad birthday!

well it looks great! You did a really awesome job on your challenge, tho im kidding ; D I can make due

Still, thanks for the well wishes, I'll take those : >

awesome art on your end as always

Hey Justin, what are you listening to?

I love the dynamicness of this thing <3 HOW DID YOU FISHLENSTHIS

Yeah, I don't really like that song.


And I just looked up a bunch of photos of dogs taken with a fisheye lens and cobbled something together for the most part <3 His nose should actually be pointing down toward the center line, but I liked it better bigger, so to hell with optics, etc. The roses, I took some reference of a rose bouquet and applied the Spherize filter to it a couple of times before painting from it. The background is a photo I took that I bent into a spherical projection using Free Transform > Distort.

It was fun ^_^

Well done!

Thanks, dude <3

that is the murriest nose ever

HONK.

now thats a hard angle to make out

Ironically, it's the only angle from which you can make out.

true

Aweome perspective and barrel distortion there, that would have been an absolutel bitch to try and imagine it - Beatifully done. It looks "right" you got it perfect there :D

Aw, thanks! Looking at a bunch of reference helped tremendously ^_^

lmao I think I find this to be far funnier than I should....

and distorted perspective ftw B)

I think it's either find it funny or terrifying, so I'd say you won!

oh shit he's here! this came out awesome, albeit completely different from what I saw you start. fur, nose, tongue, eyes, flowers... textures-a-poppin! great attention to detail.

Yeah, I kinda had to scrap the old one and actually go look at how fisheye lens photos work 9_9

Aside from the fur, all the detailed bits you mention are basically cobbled together frankendog-style from a whole bunch of reference <3

The dog in the first one was so cute! this guy is too. i love that you kept the french shirt:) He seems to be calling in quite a tony neighborhood, if the neighbor's house is any indication.

Reece just had a baby, and I went over the other night and was going to bring flowers and then thought better and just gave them a card with cash in it. Hard times in the country, ya'll... I wish I could afford to be frivolous now and again. I still AM, I just can't afford it.

If you walk north along the coast from the Sutro ruins, you pop out in Seacliff, which has some pretty massive houses

And congrats to your friend! I suppose if there's any special occasion where frivolity isn't called for, it's having a kid. Adult responsibility, etc >_<

Such a brilliant perspective! I must say I love the roses the best, they seem a nice deep burgundy colour. I still can't help but laugh and wonder what the person on the other side of the peephole is thinking. X3

Probably something to the tune of "AUGH STAY AWAY" <3

Haha, probably. XD

Huh? How did that even happen?

Why did you do this?

Why???

Heavens. You've hit the jackpot with adorable, well-executed, and clever. Very clever!

Thanks, dude <3 Super lens/perspective distortion is definitely new territory for me!

Veiw 666 haha! Btw your painting skills are great. Is the house in the back just a photo edit or painted as well? Either way this is a joy to look at.

It's a photo I took in one of the ritzy neighborhoods in town <3

I thought about painting it in, but it was getting to be pretty late, so bed won out ^_^

Holy gorgeous work Batman

THOKK!

I mean THANK!

YOU!

Speaking of Norsey stuff, I'm watching this animation right now, and although it's Hungarian, the old father only has one eye and that seems pretty darn Norsey to me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-UIdwAEljY
It is so colorful and gorgeous, check it out.

Haha, this is rad <3 It does have that weird Scandinavian legend mix of crazy stark and super vibrant ^_^

http://www.furaffinity.net/view/3548719/ Fisheye photo of my dog. ;) Nice job you did.

Haha, nice! Pretty close <3

WOW! This is really unique. Love the coloring style! :3

Thanks, dude ^_^

Love the angle. (: The detail on the tongue is amazing. Awesome job yet again

Er, reply fail... >_< |
________________|
|
V

Oh, dog tongue >:°{===)

Sorry 'bout that!

When this finished loading, I was like "*whew*...damn!" (O.o)

This here is a gorgeous lens distorted bust! :O

The curvature looks fantastic, and I just love the German Shepherd's llolling tongue and roses. ^^

You've truly outdone yourself with this one, Kamui! \(^o^)/

*lolling tongue

Thanks! It was a fun challenge ^_^

this is rad XD

Thanks, dude ^_^

Reminds me of my white german shepherd. I miss him so. :I


This is really awesome and definitely a challenging perspective. Great job! :D

Aww, white german shepherd <3 <3 <3

And thanks! I feel like I should challenge myself more

Very charming.
Sometimes I don´t want to open the door if someone rings, but in this case it would be not a problem. Well done!

He seems harmless enough, if maybe a bit overeager <3

absolutely freakin brilliant! <3

Thanks, man ^_^

Really like the way you paint! this perspective was always frustrating to me, you pulled it off great

Thanks -- it was definitely helpful looking at photos to help see how the lens distortion works ^_^

fantastic! such a difficult shot to pull off, I love the colors and the house in the background!

also big ears+big noses are so cute on damn near anyone/anything <3

Thanks, dude ^_^ And I'm inclined to agree!

*opens door* Hiii
Incredible use of perspective here, man I love that distortion look.

Thanks! It was fun trying something new and weird ^_^

aaah, have any tips on doing great perspective shots? I try to draw the lines but it's really hard to with a tablet, lol

Take/look at lots of photo reference of the sort of scene or perspective that you want to draw to see how it works ^_^

And if you're having trouble freehanding lines with the tablet, just use the line tool! Nice, straight lines every time <3

haha, that's true, gotcha, thanks.

some friends of mine with nose fetishes assure me that this picture is A MURRICANE.

Dude, amaaaaazing <3

What a fantastic piece! Incredibly well-executed, sir. Be proud.

Haha, thanks

It was fun playing with something a little more extreme than usual ^_^

BIIIG NOSE! :D

HONK.

Wow, so it's like the view hole on your door, right?
That's really awesome!

Thanks, dude ^_^

This is so amazingly well done. IT'S BLOWING MY MIIIIND.

I LOVE IT.

Haha, thanks, dude <3

This picture is so much fun to look at! The distortion is so fun, and he just looks so happy and funloving. x3
That tongue looks so ultrarealistic! I totally dig it <3

Thanks! It was a fun challenge to do ^_^

aaaa I have so many good words for this they're all trying to come out at once.


The one which comes to mind the most is PERSPECTIVE, this is so dandy, that must have been an awkward one to work out.

I definitely had to sift through quite a few fisheye lens photos to see how they work <3

Also, thanks!

I'd definitely open the door to that stranger!

Haha, I'm not quite sure how I'd react ^_^

oh WOW this is SO awesome!!! excellent work conquering the fisheye-lens technique!!! he looks so handsome, i love those earsss and his fur! the roses also look stunning!!

Thanks! It was fun trying something outside my usual subject/style!

Ha ha, this is adorable! I really like the fisheye effect here

Thanks, dude <3

Dat picture

http://jcwinnie.biz/wordpress/?p=2798

Hah! An uncanny likeness!

Awesome, dude

I like the bright colours and the perspective in this one.