[malo]

Pretty nice SB here!
Like your studies a lot and the illustrations are great as well.
Will keep an eye on it.
Cheers

[cerkvenik]

Thanks for stopping by Malo! I´ve been following your SB for a longtime! It´s a big source for inspiration not only in a artistic way but also by how much you practice!

[cerkvenik]

Quick update!

[cerkvenik]

one more hand study! 1h (no colorpicking!), wow that was hard..1st time rendering a dark skin.

[cerkvenik]

color update! It was going to be just a color study and when I realised I had almost done! It evolved much easier than I thought..

[Kherns]

This one is at a nice start. Your piece of meat I love eating those.
You begin to have really nice renders on skin but beware of the thumb's shape. I don't have such a strange thumb (just have looked Good luck with your P.I.A ( yeah i love this one) calibration. I'll check that on your thread. Get in the darkness and the shadows till you put the light ! PS : F5 refreshh refresh ! Wow I have a message !

[cerkvenik]

Thanks Kern! I'll try to paint a fried steak! ;D
How weird do you think it is? I can see I missed some wrinkles!

I realised that spending a lot with a monitor I should have bought another kind (LED/ICS) or a Imac.. My 24"Full HD samsung is too shiny and Idk why... But I'm luck to work with a Mac at my job so I can compare!

[cerkvenik]

quick update!
I still not happy with the colors.. maybe I´ll desaturate most of the armour, the idea was to show a steel armour with candle reflections, but atm it looks like a golden armour, it´s been hard to find a good reference :/

[cerkvenik]

hi there! long time no update!
well, some news, kinda bad, kinda good, I just quit my job, back to freelancing, I´m finishing a book, let´s see what happens.. wish me luck!

[malo]

sweet progress!
keep at it - looks pretty promising!
Cheers

[C0nker3]

nice work man, your treatment of metal surfaces is reallly improving.

[kevin-]

the knight dood is coming along, would suggest a stronger edge around the helmet, its sorta to close in color to the pillow and you lose that edge between the two. keep it up

[cerkvenik]

Thanks Malo! This last update really boosted my inspiration. I was kinda stuck..

Thanks Conker! I took some pots and pans to the studio! lol

Thanks Kevin! I chose a soft edge because I think there´s very few light bouncing there. Cinthia Sheppards gave me a feedback to blend a little bit the color of the helmet and the pillow. I´m not saying you´re are wrong! I really aprecciate the feedack! what do you think??

[cerkvenik]

I´m at the final sprint! After a long time with candles and pot at the studio, I´m happy with armour relections, but what holds me back is to convey the fabric wrinkles in a interesting way. I´m going to take some photos tomorrow, maybe I´ll add a lot of fold like layers of fabric instead of only one sheet.. So it´s your last chance to hammer it down until I give up and move ahead! lol



the last 20% really takes 80% of the time..

[Amaakir]

Hey man, great work on the knight! I think the chainmail needs more contrast, it kinda just meshes with the armor and doesn't quite feel that it's something completely apart from it.
I'll raise a beer in your name for quitting, man, it takes guts to go into the wild, but I've done it also and I know how you feel, I'm glad to know you already got a book in the making and I wish you the best of luck!