this is gorgeous, stu. truly envious.

Thanks Vas!

Oh my goodness. The fine attention to detail. This is unbelievable.

Cheers :] those are the bits I like doing

Jeez, that's incredible.

Thank you Phraggs :]

This is GORGEOUS.

spectacular work on this one

Thank you very much!
Now onto he next :0

So darn nice! your work is fantastic! :3

Cheers Ludo for the complements :]

The detail you put into your shadows!
And your rendering on the shoes and his nose are SPOT on.
Please upload more... haha

It all depends on what the lighting is and where it is coming from :U
Thanks! I had to pull out my dress shoes to see how those highlights worked as my brain slowing down from lack of sleep :I
Working on another already!

oh.. oh there ARE SO MANY THINGS I COULD WRITE ABOUT THIS!!!!!!! i love it SO MUCH!!! you are able to render things into such refined existence!!!!! THANKYOU!! i am so honoured to be doing a trade with you!!!! absolutely stunning work, love it to bits!!!!!!

Super stoked that you are that happy with it =D Rustam is a pretty rad character and happy to have illustrated him, but looking at more recent pic's Danny has an awesome style with those side burns :0
My rendering of objects is a blessing and a curse :I
I'm just glad that you were down for this, let me know if you want the original res of this as well!

Unbelievably realistic! Not a pixel out of place. You truly know your stuff. :)

Thank you!!
If you keep looking at stuff, you get a better idea how it works :]

Undoubtedly! Observation is one of the best ways to improve.

Speaking of, did you hide a cat in the wallpaper pattern, or is that a coincidence?

That is a Badzooks, a creature that pops up in my drawings :]
You can see the whole thing in the Group sketch top left corner.

Ahhh! I remember him now. :) Specifically from the Christmas drawing. Very cool!

Beautiful.

Chur Zeba!

GODDAMN. the detail in this is amazing and just everything about this is jaw-dropping. I love everythingggg about this picture so much!! Great stuff

Cheers Doryuu! it was pretty sweet to try something like this with the red lighting and spot light. Now onto something to do with the outdoors :0

Such amazing lighting. My eyes keep getting drawn to his chest, the detail there is lovely

Thank you very much :]
That is the brightest are of this pic, so the eyes are naturally taken there.
Getting better with this whole values business!

nice, wery nice

gunna have to agree with doryuu, you're style is so detailed, I almost wanna favorite everything xD

Cheers Itsukine!
glad you enjoy my work :]

OMG!!! The shadows and lighting are so freaking detailed.

The glass is giving me an eyegasm! I love how transparent you made the glass using the light.

This is an instant favorite for me. :D

Thank you so much for the complements :]
I did a small photography class, and they taught us how to shoot glasses by using bounce lighting. It's a real simple way to show the contour of it.

I meant to give a reasonable comment before the favorite, but there is so many things I can praise about this image, words by itself don't cut it. My favorite portion about this is the way you handle value so well, that everything has weight to it, and nothing appears flat or out of place. The way you reference the hell out of things really shows your dedication and attention to edges.

And that scarf detail, insane dude.

All good Cybill, and I think your words were rad :]
Those are things I'm getting better at so good to know that they are paying off. And yes it does help to have good reference to help solidify the character better.
Once I get some things done, I'll put up a process of this pic and how I did the scarf texture :]
Thanks again!

do you have a webcomic or what, because you can make one and see alot of people reading it in no time excellent work as always

If I did a webcomic, it would probably take me a year to do a single strip since I'm so slow haha.
thank you for the thought :]

Makes me think of Dean Cornwell, though your brushwork is many times tighter. You really knocked this one out of the ballpark! I'm a sucker for high-saturation images. The whites around the face pop like crazy. And the attention to detail, like the reflection of the overhead light in the snifter, is outstanding.

ohh wow Dean's stuff is fantastic!
Thanks, I feel I can concentrate on details more in simpler environments like this as I don't have to worry about bounce lighting everywhere.
Thanks again Berbalang!

Dean Cornwell rocks my socks. Dig in and enjoy, he's yummy! Or his art is. Dunno about the man. Love them big fat delicious choppy brush strokes.

You handle light so well. It's an undeniable trait of your work. Polish and light are handled with finess and élan and zazz, even. I salute you from very far away! And I await your next post with glee.

just had confidence in his strokes, and knows where to put them :0

Thanks! I guess I practised it a fair bit when I was doing my illustrations, just have to study more on interesting compositions and colours!


might be a while till I get the next full illustration piece done, but I'm working on some stuff :]

Yay! Canna wait!

Cornwell was a confident painter, it must be admitted. It's neat when you can peek under the hood of folks like Cornwell, or Tom Lovell, or Gil Elvgren. Have you ever seen some of J.C. Leyendecker's studies? They're insane! Every bit as tight as the final painting! It's as if the man couldn't lay down a bad stroke.

Yeah I saw a bunch of them online and was stunned how detailed they were, yet didn't feel overworked.
Might ref his style for a project next year, as it would suit the theme really well :]

oooh! A project for next year. Do tell. ;)

might be for a book cover next year that suits the time period I think.
In the mean time I need to speed up on my own stuff :U