The Dark Knight (Joker) SS Round 1 Entry

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Sig size, and my entry for the SS round 1 theme Movies.

http://img717.imageshack.us/img717/3692/jokerdpss.png

Please comment and critique, Thanks to all who voted for me also, I wanted to start out strong in this competition.

Really sick, great detail in this, look forward to seeing more from you mate. Nothing to really critique, nice photo realism, maybe the one eyelid is a tad bit extended, but I'm not sure, lol.

when i saw the sig i tought wat did you edit to it
but then i saw the large version an i realize that you draw that

nice job dude

thx, Gallagher, exclusive, ya I was going for photo realistic piece, I guess I did a good job if I fooled pple into thinking I just entered a stock photo in a competition, lol. thx.
Here is a quick breakdown of a couple of stages in this piece so you can kinda see how i made this.
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http://img602.imageshack.us/img602/4894/joker75done.png

http://img204.imageshack.us/img204/6730/joker90done.png

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Pretty slick sick.

I would never thought you were this talented at DP. You just went from yey to omfg. If you were at DA you'd have +fav for sure.

Awesome work!

yey, thx Rad, I don't even know what + fav means but it sounds good, I will have to get a DA account set up soon. Also thx for comments, I am just beginning to get into DP at this level now.

Was definitely, in my opinion, the best sig from round 1
absolutely great digital painting :)

I thought it was rl until I looked at it again later >.<

It is pretty wicked, wish I would have paid better attention.

Thx Ketg, that means alot, appreciate it. Also Thx Slave, we are up against eachother in Round 2, I am scared, you are the Anime Goddess on the void. I will try to step it up, but it will be tough to up my game from round 1, but I will try.

ps. I loved your quote from Round 1 thread Slave, I put it in my signature spot. I laughed at that one.

That's pretty sick, nice job!

lol domino, good stuff :P

Funny because I was telling some ppl that night once I found out I would be facing you that if I get comics/anime you own in that field an I would be so butt hurt xD

Thanks for the compliment on the anime tho, my heart swelled ^^

p.s it was the lips that I thought were the most real in this image. The eyes I thought you left alone too :P

WOW i actually did think it was a stock till everyone commented.
That is so epic it reminds me of kodey`s work, The hair has a proper real feeling to it
and wow i just love it

FUCKING AMAZING...wow like i was honestly like wtf did you do (as the original was loading) then i jizzed

So realistic =o
Awesome =D

hhahha i said to my elf when i saw your tag wth looks like you placed a rnder over a white wall lol ahaha but seeing that you drew this dam man that is bad ass :) i so need my tablet ahaha this is a deffinate Treasured Artworks kiu bro

Nice Peice Man!, like the detal in the face and the front of the scalp, the background goes good its with the picture and the way it's painted has a good blur effect to it..Nice Work! the only critique i may have aswell, like my cousin pointed out... ;D is that the alignment with the eye is a little bit off. cant quite put my finger on it either... but over all very nice.

That is so amazing, did you use a tablet? Only thing I wanna say is that if he had his head tilted to the left, wouldn't the white paint on his left cheek be a few shades darker due to the lighting you chose?

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That is so amazing, did you use a tablet? Only thing I wanna say is that if he had his head tilted to the left, wouldn't the white paint on his left cheek be a few shades darker due to the lighting you chose?

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Thank you RvThm, yes I used a Bamboo tablet, I first sketched the outline and basic shapes of the face and body with mouse and pentool, once I got my shapes down, I filled them in with solid color bases, then added on layers of paintbrushing with the tablet to fill in shadow areas, mid tone colors, and light colors. smoothed out patchy areas with smudgebrush, and paintbrush. I had about a week to finish this damn piece and only a couple hours a night to work on it, so I had to rush at the end to finish, I might have missed a few shading details such as the cheek white area, and the above mentioned eye area, I will have to go back in and fix those areas when I have more time to do so. I figured since I was reducing the size for the sig size it would be not as noticable if i had small mistakes. Thanks for the cnc.

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Originally Posted by KodeyBell

Nice Peice Man!, like the detal in the face and the front of the scalp, the background goes good its with the picture and the way it's painted has a good blur effect to it..Nice Work! the only critique i may have aswell, like my cousin pointed out... ;D is that the alignment with the eye is a little bit off. cant quite put my finger on it either... but over all very nice.

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Thanks Kodey, I had fun making it, the forehead area was tough to get to blend evenly and not look choppy or too blended. The bg was the most simple part of this, took less than an half hour to sketch it and paint/smudge it to get blur look. most difficult was eyes/lips/nose, because of detail in those areas.

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Originally Posted by sirenzo

hhahha i said to my elf when i saw your tag wth looks like you placed a rnder over a white wall lol ahaha but seeing that you drew this dam man that is bad ass :) i so need my tablet ahaha this is a deffinate Treasured Artworks kiu bro

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Thanks sirenzo, I wish it was that easy to make, lol I got about halfway done with two days to go and wondered if I could even finish this one before deadline. lol. I had two full days at the end to work on it and finish in time, I litterally was finishing the bg up till about 30 minutes before deadline.

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Originally Posted by Evil Mike

So realistic =o
Awesome =D

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Thanks Evil mike, appreciate it.

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Originally Posted by van Zeben

FUCKING AMAZING...wow like i was honestly like wtf did you do (as the original was loading) then i jizzed

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haha, thanks vanZeben, I'm glad I could make you jizz.

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Originally Posted by Tay X

WOW i actually did think it was a stock till everyone commented.
That is so epic it reminds me of kodey`s work, The hair has a proper real feeling to it
and wow i just love it

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Thanks Tayx, I love Kodey's work with hair, I hope to one day be there, still getting this DP thing down, can always improve tho, so thanks.

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Originally Posted by Slave

lol domino, good stuff :P

Funny because I was telling some ppl that night once I found out I would be facing you that if I get comics/anime you own in that field an I would be so butt hurt xD

Thanks for the compliment on the anime tho, my heart swelled ^^

p.s it was the lips that I thought were the most real in this image. The eyes I thought you left alone too :P

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I started out with the eyes and spent like 2 days getting them right before I decided to finish the whole thing, thx Slave.

Spectacular job, DOMINO.

thx Derosion, appreciate it.

Sick mate =D, digital paintings = pwn

OH DAMN.. I was about to give you shit for not doing anything except cutting and pasting a stock image.. I thought that was real. 10/10. +fav