Sijun Forums :: View topic - Lady with a mask (now posted in the right forum)

WitchLord · Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2000 2:12 am

23!! Now I'm even more impressed. Not that you are so good, but that you have done so many paintings that I consider master pieces. And I'm sure I've only seen a few of them at that.

I have only painted 3 pictures this year that I'm proud of. My necromancer being the latest one. If I would have done as many paintings as you I would be ancient by now

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kimzoll · Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2000 2:14 am

I check out your links, you are good, very nice.
Are any of them a self portrait by any chance?

Kim

Enayla · Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2000 2:21 am

I'm a very productive girl. I guess I spit out at least two pictures every week that I consider rather good. One each month that changes a lot in my style and takes me one step further along the road.

I haven't worked with digital art that long.

As to any portraits of me... naw...
But I've got this tiny image here of what I looked like some six months ago - the hairstyle has changed, and the eyecolour has changed (and the colour of hair) but...well...err...

(An image taken by people at my job. Thus the boring pose.)

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SporQ · Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2000 2:39 am

dang, all the cute ones are in sweden

SporQ

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TweeK · Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2000 4:14 am

Life ain't fair

how I'm supposed to impress them pretty girls if they draw like that...

'Damn girl where you at!'

Jeff

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WitchLord · Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2000 4:38 am

What do you do for a living, Enayla? I hope you earn money on your artistic skills. It would be a shame if you weren't.

I almost wrote something about your looks, but decided that it would probably sound corny or something. Besides my girlfriend probably wouldn't like what I had to say

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AdezJ · Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2000 5:45 am

Nice work! as ever! talk to ya later!
/Adezj

AprilYSH · Posted: Sat Dec 09, 2000 1:08 am

quote:
Originally posted by Enayla:

But I do have my art up on Elfwood:Here
And Toonscape: Here

what is that toonscape site and how can your pics only have 4 stars? what's a 5 star pic?!?

saw your lovely illustrations when you first posted a few days ago but only had time to really look now. very nice. loved dance of winters. that would be a really good website theme.

if you're not already earning money from your art, can i point you towards making book covers for ebooks. the current ebook cover standard SUCKS and you can revolutionise that, expecially with the fast pace you work at. of course you can do other stuff... i'm just saying the ebook cover niche is HURTING right now.

goodluck, keep posting your updates here please (till you do that website)... elfwood is so slow and i don't like the format of toonscape... (as if anyone cares)

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DirtyDigger · Posted: Sat Dec 09, 2000 5:18 am

Sheesh, no wonder her women look so good. They're all self=portraits!

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"I Hear High Heels!" - DirtyDigger

Enayla · Posted: Sat Dec 09, 2000 5:24 am

Toonscape is a really neat art gallery that protects the images from people who try to steal them (though there's never any way to protect against the jolly old "print screen" I'm afraid)... As to the grades on the pictures, I've got slightly more five stars, than four stars... but it's always maddening to see people give good grades to the pictures I don't really like... and just four stars to the ones I'm very proud of

As to creating covers for books... it is something I have considered. But I'm too much of a coward to actually send some of my stuff anywhere...

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DirtyDigger · Posted: Sat Dec 09, 2000 8:02 am

Hmm so I post a compliment as my first posting ever and it gets deleted. :\

The skin tone in your picture above are incredible I wish I could achieve that in my somewhat lacking drawings how do you achieve this?

I read your tutorial and I don't remember a mention of how you achive the skin tones.

I was going through all your pictures last night on elfwood and in this forum (it took me a LONG time

) and was blown away. Great work! You are the reason I chose programming over drawing, in the grand scheme of things, I could never compete with your talent on the art side.

Anyway the comment that was deleted was along the lines of:
'No wonder the women are so beautiful in all of your pictures, the reason is that they are all self-portraits.'

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Enayla · Posted: Sat Dec 09, 2000 9:58 am

DirtyDigger: Thanks, I am glad you like the image. And the rest of course

As to the skin tones, I don't know how to describe how I do them. I try to play with a lot of different hues so that it doesn't look flat, I know I only half succeeded with that in the picture of the lady with the mask, but sometimes I just fall a little short of the target.

Heh, and to the compliment... naw... I'm not that good looking, but thanks

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Blitz · Posted: Sat Dec 09, 2000 10:31 am

That is a beautifull picture....Both of them

Of course I love the mask, very Amano looking. You ever see any work by Yoshitaka Amano?

Are you working for a company doing your art? You should have know problem impressing someone with your skills.
Thanks for the post on my Dragon Cave.. You nailed what I was going for right off. Im getting there.

Blitz

TheMilkMan · Posted: Sat Dec 09, 2000 11:41 am

Enalya nice pic overall ....I just wanted to make a comment about the issue of your paintings being stolen . I don't think you or any other artist should worry about this unless someone is selling them as prints. I mean if you get people using your work and saying it is there's consider it a compliment as they must love your work. People like Frazetta and Easley and all the great master painters have websites dedicated to there art. I think that they have got to the point where looking at there art is immediatly recognizable to whome they are..that is what you have to shoot for! I mean if someone came to me for a job interview with a portfolio filled with brom pics I would kick his arse to the curb!! So just keep that in mind !

Binke · Posted: Sat Dec 09, 2000 2:46 pm

Go sweden!
n� men schyssta bilder du.

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Chapel · member Member # Joined: 18 Mar 2000 Posts: 1930

I really like the pic. I think it would have looked a little better if the mask was a dark green or something. To seperate it from the tone of the hair and to make it pop out at you. The painting however is excellent.

One other question is what is that above your left eye in your picture? I agree with everyone else to.. very cute.

Blitz · Posted: Sun Dec 10, 2000 2:34 am

Well I am no Enayla
but it is an ear-ring in her eye.. I cant remember if there is a proper name for them. I have a few friends that have them. Isn't that a loop one in your eyebrow??

And Enayla, you probably shouldnt post a pic of yourself in this forum if you are that pretty. You will be hit on now by every singal computar junky that hasent been outside in a few months

hehe

Well I should shutup now.

Blitz

Enayla · Posted: Sun Dec 10, 2000 3:54 am

*Chuckles* I'm not that pretty.

But yes, it's a piercing, though it's not a ring. It's a...*looks for words*... ah, yes, it's a barbell. Neat little thing. Had it for some three or four years now.

Anyway, this is what it looks like if you're curious:

The eyecolour has been manipulated, because I used to have orange eyes... and I don't anymore.

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Enayla · Posted: Sun Dec 10, 2000 3:56 am

Oh, and I forgot...

Blitz: I'm afraid I haven't heard of him. Perhaps you could show me a few links so I could have a look?

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CyberLink · Posted: Sun Dec 10, 2000 4:13 am

Hmm. The stealing of graphics is very bad. As for me I've got watermark ID that may be easily embedded into the image by using "Embed Watermark" tool in photoshop (any other powerful graphics product).

For more info you may visit:
- http://www.digimarc.com
- http://www.digimarc.com/imaging/index.htm

Then I was just poor student and got it fo free - but now they can ask me to pay 500$ for using the watermark %|

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It was the answer to the last message of the page #1

Btw. Enayla you look beautiful

About 3 years ago in 1997 when Internet was just starting up in our country I've met a girl in the chat and she looked like you on the photo

Her nickname was "Pretty"

It was very nice for me to remember that time

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Enayla · Posted: Sun Dec 10, 2000 1:11 pm

CyberLink: Yeah, I know about watermarking... I checked it out, and to me, it looks pretty expensive... at least if you have a lot of pictures like I do (with expensive I mean that the engine you use to track down the stolen pictures with seems to cost a lot)

Someone also told me that the "print screen" button very neatly takes care of the watermark, and lets people steal the pictures anyway... It's just something that bothers me. Especially since I allow people to use my art if they just bother to /ask/ me. And because I found my art, manipulated with changed colours and horizontal switches, on other people's sites... bothering me a lot.

Enough on that subject, though...

Heh, and thanks...

always nice to hear that people don't think I'm downright ugly at least

Brishen:

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Brishen · Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2000 12:36 am

I'd do 'er.

The painting, I mean....

DirtyDigger · Posted: Thu Dec 14, 2000 2:45 pm

quote:
Originally posted by Enayla:
*Chuckles* I'm not that pretty.

The eyecolour has been manipulated, because I used to have orange eyes... and I don't anymore.

Not pretty, BAH! enough said on that..

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As for orange eyes??? surprised noone picked up on this for a comment. Don't think I've ever seen someone with orange eyes... would be rather exotic me thinks.

This pic above the piercing looks annoyingly proper (not my cup of tea, but hey to each their own)

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Enayla · Posted: Thu Dec 14, 2000 3:46 pm

Weird. My computer is messing up so I can't see all the smiley things just above the reply box :/

Ah well.

And yeah, I know that picture looks annoyingly proper - but it was for my job's homepage, what do you expect

As for my eyecolour, orange/coppery is my favourite so far. I've had bright green, emerald green, really dark green, purple, lilac, turquoise, dark orange, bright orange, and now dark green eyes. Contacts, if you hadn't guessed.

Blue would be the actual colour

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kig · Posted: Thu Dec 14, 2000 4:10 pm

Enayla: Yoshitaka Amano : http://www.amanosworld.com/

maxwell · junior member Member # Joined: 27 Jul 2000 Posts: 25

"Someone also told me that the "print screen" button very neatly takes care of the watermark, and lets people steal the pictures anyway..."

If the watermarking software is worth anything that's not true. Watermarking usually works by adding some information to the image which is visible to the computer by not to the eye. I've seen watermaking technology that can stand up to scaling, rotation, compression and even modification of parts of the image.

Max

Zaphod · Posted: Thu Dec 14, 2000 11:52 pm

Message in swedish (hehe, couldn't resist):
Jag m�ste s�ga att de d�r bilderna var riktigt imponerande (�ven om jag kan tycka att m�nga utav dem ser v�ldigt lika ut). Har du g�tt n�got konst relaterad utbildning?

/Magnus

sacrelicious · Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2000 2:47 pm

"Velvety" may or may not be a word, but Velveeta is definitely scrumptious.

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Enayla · Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2000 3:29 pm

kig: Thanks!

maxwell: You might be right about this... I simply can't see how this would be possible however. When the image is on my screen, on my monitor, and someone uses "print screen", it is like a photo of something. I don't see how the water mark could possibly transfer into that "photo". But then again, I'm no computer genious...

Zaphod: Tack

Jag gick p� konst och form p� gymnasiet, men jag l�rde mig inte ett skit d�r :/ Och f�rutom det s� har jag inte g�tt n�gon riktig utbildning i det jag g�r...

sacrelicious:

I don't know if I would know how to respond to that. Heh.

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Magpie · Posted: Sat Dec 16, 2000 1:18 am

Hey Enayla,

Very cool stuff indeed. I usually don't post too often(busy, busy) but all the stuff I've seen you post is super cool. You should get as many gigs as you can possibly handle if you work that fast(3 hrs!!) I work with some kick ass guys, and not many are that fast!

Peace, out,

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Magpie