Jack Williams digital oil painting

[The Dark Elf]

Was bored today so decided to finish a recent image. It's supposed to look like oil paint style. But I don't think I've got it looking quite right just yet. Though its closer than past attempts. Funny really, I hate painting with oils, yet on a computer I try fake the effect, go figure

Anyhoo, all done in Painter 8 using brushes I've made, didn't make use of impasto though, find it often causes more problems and not really worth it.

Did some cleaning up and editing in Photoshop 7 eg: adding a faint surface texture to the image. Also toned down the colors a little in photoshop, since I'd got a bit too gaudy in painter trying to mimic oils.

Edit: Unfortunately, the image looks really bright on this monitor compared to the other one. I wish instead of making faster machines, someone would work out a way to properly calibrate two different makes of monitors so embarrasing accidents like this don't happen.. So yeah, try pretend the original is just as bright, please, thanks lol

The original photo can be found here:

http://www.jackwilliamsmusic.com/press.htm

 

[Stormy]

WOW. Your pro dude lol

 

[The Dark Elf]

thanks guys

less potentially-a-grouchy-old-fart-who-doesn't-give-out-Halloween-candy.

lol love the reply there pendragon

 

[Sui]

WOW that looks teriffic! i must say i have hardly ever seen a peice of art that accurate or beutiful on this forum. bloody nice!

btw i thought from the title this was going to be a thrad about a "certain" oil painting that turned out to be digital shock horror (then i noticed the "jack williams" )

 

[Maxi]

Wow, jeesus fark! Could you do one of me, if you have the time ofcourse?

 

[Sorze]

Wow..

I don't have anything bad to say about it..

My dad, who paints with oil, thought it looked great............


It's nice to see you post Fenric, whatwith the artforum sometimes not getting quite enough action, imo..

 

[The Dark Elf]

WOW that looks teriffic! i must say i have hardly ever seen a peice of art that accurate or beutiful on this forum. bloody nice!

btw i thought from the title this was going to be a thrad about a "certain" oil painting that turned out to be digital shock horror (then i noticed the "jack williams" )

haha, yeah I was a bit unsure about putting the words oil and painting in the thread title after arsenic pulled his little stunt. But then I have the original .RIF file of this one sat on the other desktop so I know its mine heh.

Glad you like it. I admit I haven't to my knowledge heard any of this guys music. Just found his pic on google and thought it would make for a good practice.

I was gonna post it over on conceptart.org but I don't dare post any of my work next to someone like Sparth. He's just too good, makes me sick

 

[Maxi]

I was gonna post it over on conceptart.org but I don't dare post any of my work next to someone like Sparth. He's just too good, makes me sick

Go ahead, post it. Imo you don't credit yourself enough, to me this looks like it was done on canvas with oil paints. This is one very fine piece of artwork
:cheers:

 

[Crushenator 500]

WOW that looks teriffic! i must say i have hardly ever seen a peice of art that accurate or beutiful on this forum. bloody nice!

btw i thought from the title this was going to be a thrad about a "certain" oil painting that turned out to be digital shock horror (then i noticed the "jack williams" )

heh, i agree with everything you put there. great work fenric :cheers:

 

[The Dark Elf]

Cheers guys

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Maxi, naa, the artists over there are really good.

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Attached a bit of the image from the full sized version from before its taken into Photoshop to be fixed up.

 

[Murray_H]

do you have to be good at everything?

Good skills, looks very, very nice

 

[CrazyHarij]

I love it! The warm colors, the life, it's absolutely amazing! :thumbs:

 

[Chris D]

I never realised you were such a good artist Fenric, you don't show your work off often enough.

 

[galoot3000]

Very, very nice Fenric!!!! its sooooooo good

 

[The Dark Elf]

hehe. I honestly didn't expect this kind of response. Cheers guys *blushes and pulls the pic down*

 

[PriNcE oF SpAcE]

nice pic. I think you should define his eyes more though...

 

[The Dark Elf]

nice pic. I think you should define his eyes more though...

I thought about it, didn't want to overdo it too much, which is a problem I have that I'm always fighting with. I sometimes don't know when to stop and ruin a lot that way, So i try err on the side of caution these days when I can.

 

[Sulkdodds]

Mmm, orange. Great pic. Orange, and all that.

 

[The Dark Elf]

Mmm, orange. Great pic. Orange, and all that.

He eats lots of carrots


...

 

[Neutrino]

Wow, very nice painting. It seems very close to the desired oil painting effect. The only possible comment I could add is it doesn't quite seem to have the "depth" of oil paintings. It seems many oil paintings use under layers which really give the painting a thick look.

But that's a small thing really. Looks great.

 

[Sprafa]

do you have to be good at everything?

Good skills, looks very, very nice

I mean, mankind will be obsolete. Fenric can do everything!!!!! it's not fair ;(

Just joking around, it's great man, I also hope we can get some more

 

[The Dark Elf]

I mean, mankind will be obsolete. Fenric can do everything!!!!! it's not fair ;(

Just joking around, it's great man, I also hope we can get some more

Working on something at the moment, but I'm keeping the thread hidden till I'm ready, just incase I suddenly get bored and leave it heh.

 

[dassbaba]

that;s really cool ^_^

 

[tim8604]

Looks awesome Fenric, keep it up. I'd love to see some of your earlier work to see how you got started too if you don't mind .

 

[Brazooka]

Woooow. Fenric, that's just awesome!!!