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words I never hear

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    We often hear that wine brings out the truth, but I daresay it does the opposite. It tells us the lies we wish to hear. It reinforces our delusions, our pretences, these the duty of the mother to preach. Even the mothers of barbarians, oh yes, how they whisper in their mud hovels when I come by.

    “Hush, child. We cannot be found here, child,” they say. (They lie.) “… We are safe here.”

    MY MOTHER HAD NO SUCH WORDS FOR ME!

    Oh, but the wine had. I catch the faintest whiff, these words I never hear, I steal breaths of them when I am drowning. They, a strain of melody; a song I am somehow not entitled to enjoy. A song sung by a thousand throats when young lord Jaegor used to weep.

    But my, what made you so worthy, my lord? What made you worthy?


~ Lovarion dir Falr
the emperor of the world.



   Characters   ||-|     Ruso     ||    :bulletred: Lovarion     ||     Jaegor     |     Balieus      |     Echeris     |-||     World

The tattoo on his leg says "lord and master". The ones on his arm are Household honour designs.

Moar Lovarion!
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Make
Apple
Model
iPhone 4S
Shutter Speed
1/726 second
Aperture
F/2.4
Focal Length
4 mm
ISO Speed
50
Date Taken
Jul 15, 2015 3:43:58 PM +02:00
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Oh, I can write a Critique? Why, this will save me a comment to make.^^

You told me that you see yourself more as a designer than as an artist and I thought about it and I just didn't buy it. And this is proof. This is fine art! I bet I could hang a print of this in a museum and people wouldn't notice.

There's a lot going on here. So many lines in the right places! Such textures! But I'll skip that part because I would only bore you with simply listing all the details I see. Instead, I'd like to focus on the shading and lighting, because it is amazing and it sells the whole thing!
  • The brooch is just delicious! It's not just because it's red, but having such a strong colour in an otherwise lower-saturated image helps. It looks like glass (or a polished gem, because all of the nice-looking "gems" in my life were made of glass) and it has all the important properties! It gets darker with the curve of the material and with the direction of the light. And the reflection is the icing on the cake.
  • Shiny metal things. Given that the brooch reflects so well, I wonder if the goblets and the bracelet shouldn't reflect more, because it looks like it could be expensive, this way it looks a bit low-grade or possibly old and not well cared for. Maybe you were going for that.
  • Window light. It might seem like a small and simple addition to some, but
    1. they are wrong, perspective is hard and you nailed it and then there's even the shadow on the leg!
    2. there is an offset in saturation near the character's head and it somehow manages to make both the background near the head and the character on the bottom more interesting
    This is the attention to detail that I expect from a 3D rendering engine, not from an average artist. You are neither and that is a compliment


Other things I'd like to mention:
  • The tattoos. I like them. Especially the one on the upper arm. Is that a symbol for fire?
    Unrelated to the tattoos, I still like the writing system, it looks more ordered here than on a previous piece
  • Damn, the details are amazing the more I look at it.
  • I already mentioned the textures, but you went an extra step for the skin. Veins. Friggin' veins! And then there's the scar and it gives me the feeling that you have it saved somewhere in a better resolution and you can zoom in even further (this doesn't contrast with the surrounding detail).


I didn't notice those were wings until I remembered they belonged to the character... which is good. Bat wings are stretched which is why they look so different to what I see here, but if they weren't, and if they were thicker, this might just be an accurate representation.

The only issue I have with this image is the top and top-left border of the cloth, on the shoulder and on the back: It's too edgy. Those folds are sharp and my eye tells me that they should be rounded.

By the way, as far as I can tell, A+ on anatomy. <img src="e.deviantart.net/emoticons/t/t…" width="15" height="15" alt=":thumbsup:" data-embed-type="emoticon" data-embed-id="262" title="Thumbs Up"/> Also, usually, most of your male characters look feminine instead of young, but this is definitely young instead of feminine (although I understand that it's more complex than that with the additional gender and all that).

OK, and the wine spill isn't as smooth as the rest of the image, but I almost didn't mention it. But I have the feeling that you have trouble painting realistic liquids in general. Not that I could help you with that in any way. <img src="e.deviantart.net/emoticons/b/b…" width="15" height="15" alt="=D" data-embed-type="emoticon" data-embed-id="367" title="=D (Big Grin)"/>

No, but the real reason I wanted to write a Critque on this one was the frame. I know you used it before, but it looks great here. I'm not sure what it is about it, it just reminds me of a window or a a mirror with the different saturations and the refraction-like effect. It tells me that the image I see could be optimised for my screen (of course, it's more that my screen should be optimised for images), and yet I didn't see it until I saw the frame, so it's good the way it is.