I've been working on a lot of other things recently (namely my website and some other artworks) and felt like it was high time to get another portait up. This one was a quick paint, perhaps 2-3 hours, a composite of two photos (the original of the young lady is here: http://www.deviantart.com/view/4760345/ ) Elarhyn is primarily intended as a rogue, but could also be a monk. I gave her ambiguously angled features, so she could be human, half-elf or elf. She steals through the city by lantern and moonlight...
An excellent portrait as usual. Great clothes, expression, mood lighting! Keep up the great work!
Posted by Old_Scores_Transfered at on02/20/04
This is a compilation of the old system into a single score. There were 25 that made this score of 8.52 then rounded to 9.
Posted by Harry_Backside at on03/24/04
I love this portrait - this has got to be my favorite of yours. I love seeing all of your portraits mind you. You have a great sense of compostion, excellent hand, an unquestionable sense of fashion, mood, lighting (blue light off her hand, back, arms white/yellow off the knee face). I think why I like this so much has something to do her pose expression. But mostly with how you painted over the existing painting and dressed her - the brush strokes rough linework give it that interesting painted touch. I especially like the LOTR Bracer Style. My only crit- a very small one - is that the face has somewhat less of the well done painted look than the rest of the portrait. Please don't take it wrong - as this is an exceptional portrait (esp. for the amount of time it took!!). Awesome work thanks for sharing it!
Posted by gyrfalconthegray at 2004-01-2617:16:00
Heh... thanks for the positive comments. The reason this was so quick is because it was photos--one for her and one for the stone wall background (which was actually originally in broad daylight, so I had to repaint that a bit.) But even so, photos go so much faster than having to render the whole thing myself! After that I didn't have to paint very much, just put the lighting in the right place, and add a few details like the tatoos, and the slight changes to the clothing. I pretty much focused the whole piece around lighting the figure, so that is where I spent most of the time. I had a lot of fun doing the blue backlight, and adding blues and red and purples to her hair arm and face. Shadows can be fun when you use lots of colors. ;-)
Posted by Richard at 2004-01-2616:55:00
2 hour paint? Man you work quick! Although you may not like what I'm about to say, I think that this is the best portrait you've done from looking at your previous portraits (this is not saying that previous portraits are bad, but I didn't feel that they have the same impact as this one). Excellent use of lighting and style. The Background definately defines the portraited character a lot more. The more I look at it, the more I find it hard to believe you only spent 2-3 hours on it :) there's a lot of detail in it!
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