| 31 Jan 2003 |  Tohveli |  Loading...This is simply great! | |
| 23 Jun 2003 | Camilla M. Drakenborg | Loading... Itīs absolutely wicked!!! And beautiful! The color and shading work makes her look so ...real! And the background! Wow, thatīs all I have to say!  | |
| 29 Jun 2004 | Elzabana | Loading... WOW Me like this won a lot *shoves chocolate in mouth* Keep it up | |
| 29 Jul 2004 | Ruasar | Loading... Wow. Looks like an album cover for some rock group lol you should design t-shirts or something! | |
| 5 Jan 2005 | Animemme | Loading... Is this a picture or a drawing????? %) | |
| 20 Dec 2005 | Kittie | Loading... Again, a bit too perfect to be real...you're making me quite skeptical. Nice picture, anyways. | |
| 16 May 2009 |  Andrew Boulter | Loading... Dude, its still a form of photo manipulation. You put more work into it than most do, but you are still esentially not drawing it from scratch. from what ive seen from the link you sent me, you COULD do it without grabbing the lines from the photo. Its basically a computer version of lightbox tracing. i will admit that you do put alot of work into it and as i said, you have a good imagination, but its all things you can do without tracing.  Mart D. Chandler replies: "My friend...lol. If that was tracing then it was a very bad job on that tutorial. No where in the work was a section of the original photo copied and then pasted in my painting...you are confusing photo manipulation with "a painted COPY" of a photo or more clearly "Photo Referencing"...even Leonardo da Vinci on most of his famous works used a device to trace guidelines to his canvas to keep the proportions correct. Mostly all and I stress "mostly" all of our well known artists use a photo reference when they want realism in their works. Now tracing an image and calling it original is not cool. That tracing if that is what I really did?...was very bad even for a 4 year old. They were only guide lines for the proportions of the anatomy.I think that is what you are bugged about here. Yes I can do a pencil or painting from total scratch. Will it look good...no not in my opinion unless I want to create a toon...People who look at scenery and paint it will be accused of copying if your theory is correct. Live models posing in front of a class will be called the photo and the students will be accused of photomanipulation. I have studied Louis Royo, Boris and Julie Bell, even the fantastic artists here and at Deviant Art...And they all will tell you...use photo referencing.
Henning, who is one of my idols uses the grid method
and that is the method I use today. He is a professional and does commercial work for games and books. check his tutorial out
http://www.henningludvigsen.com/index.php/main/tutorial_text/- ifx_tutorial_painting_a_fantasy_themed_portrait
His style is very wonderful and I learned a lot from him. You and others can certainly benefit from taking a look, it is worth it I promise.
You know, my very first art class I attended back in grammar school taught me my first lesson...I thought that the teacher wasn’t an artist at all because he used a straight edge to draw a straight line. I thought that an artist only needed a pencil and his thumb...lol.
And as far as a computer goes...let me quote a great line from another Hero of mine, Stan Winston
"If your not an artist, don’t expect the computer to do it for you cause it ain’t gonna do nothing. The computer does nothing, it’s a tool." Quoted from the DVD collection T2 extreme DVD Disc Two" | |
| 29 May 2009 |  Crystal CC Ng | Loading... i love her outfit and the way you render the skin tone^^ Mart D. Chandler replies: "Well, this one isn’t one of my favorites but then again...none really are." | |
| 31 Dec 2010 |  Wayne H. Hodge | Loading... This is an excellent work of art and l like it very much. As for what Andrew Boulter said: I have a book by Boris Vallejo that shows step by step how he does a painting. First he photographs his models separately, Then he takes a large sheet of tracing paper and places each photo under it and traces the figures in the exact area that he want’s them in using a charcoal pencil. Then he flips it over so that the drawn on side is against the canvas and then he traces over the lines again leaving a carbon like copy of the drawing on the canvas and then he paints it. According to Andrew that would be photo manipulation. Not!! Mart D. Chandler replies: "Wayne, I appreciate your words on one of my paintings done so long ago. I don’t get by here much on Elfwood because I am dedicated to Deviant Art now days because they allow works other than scifi and fantasy. Your support and words of encouragement is so much appreciated. I mean that...! And a big thank you is very much given to you. THANK YOU!!!
That is a very interesting insider view of the processes of mega artist Boris Vallejo that you wrote. I didn’t know that. If you would, you can visit my new home on the web at Deviant Art http://midnight121.deviantart.com/ but you must become a member to see the more "MATURE" of my works...don’t worry they are still very artistic. Or you can go to this link which is my blog site... http://midnight121com.blogspot.com/
I so do thank you again for your visit. And encourage you to join Deviant Art if you want to show the world your works here and possibly works not scifi or just fantasy. Its a cool site like Elfwood here. They allow all types of art. And that is limitless..." | |
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