[Toastyyy] samurais,vampires and orcs on page 3

[toasty]

Hi people,


I've been doing a lot of stuff lately, Ihaven't posted here for ages so I thought it would be nice to share it with you CA people !

first is a cover for the incoming bordgame cover of Legend of the 5 rings


some roman stuff !
first a gaius julius caesar; I wish I had seen that rome tv series before painting him, he would have been totally different I guess


some gladiators :





Hannibal's elephants


vs carthage battle


Rome (I used some 3d yep)


enough of Romans
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now vikings !

some berserkers


again on a boat (inspired by a rembrandt painting)


constantinople


eskimos


a small part of the great ragnarok battle , some people told me Odin was suppose to be one-eyed ; sorry for that mistake



I'll come back later with more stuff; hope you'll those
-toasty

[SlowDaddie]

Whoa, really good craftsmanship and painting style. I like it's soft feel to it, and the one of the elephants is particularly outstanding.

[Coleb]

Love it all. Especially the lion and Constantinople.

Can I ask if these are for specific projects?

Please post more.

[midknight523]

these are awesome

[TheMadPaddy]

Holy cow, all your pictures are amazing. I especially love the colliseum one with the lion. Phenomenal.

[derk]

great work! 5 stars from me.

[Theodoric]

amazing. This will definitely inspire me to do more work

[SEVANS]

Very nice work. Don't take so long to post again.

[Jason Rainville]

damn, this thread was made for me! I love rome, rome the series and vikings!!!

Awesome work, but some proportions and perspectives look a bit off (especially ceasar)

[Cloister]

Very nice action and movement. Very bold piece with the elephants - very nice result! The lion-piece looks great, but the hind legs of the cat looks too human, I think. There are som minor anatomical and perspective flaws here, but you do not fear the tough postures, and overall these looks great! The wolf-attack and the elephant-piece are my favorites. Constantinople doesn't messure up with the rest. Good work!

[Hyptosis]

amazing work, I loed every piece and was so glad to see you'd posted when and where they took place... awesome historical stuff.. ass pats galore for you my friend.

[JaïnvanNigtevegt]

Impressive work man, especcially the rendering and composition and color. Chosen very clearly and they tell a story. Chapeau

I agree with Rhineville and Cloister to say that the anatomy is a bit off here and there. My eye fell also on open mouths, they look strange and crooked. With the scream avec lighting in the background as an exeption. In my fav, the one with the horse and the wolf, the mouth of the wolf, one of the focuspoints of the piece, could use extra attention. It doesn't seem to have a throat.

Overall good pieces. Me likes

[TheNightPainter]

In fact, berserks attacked NAKED. I'm not joking - no protection at all, even from mosquitos

[deviousg]

naked and on magic mushrooms - (note to self: run in opposite direction as fast as possible)

Nice Renderings!

There are so much good stuff, lion - sea battle - elephants. Some nice energy in some of these.

The fact that this stuff actually happened is amazing.

I would like to see more grit and blood - but wonder if the specs for the job impacted on this. I always want to see more grit and blood though...

[Randis]

i enjoyed those. Very nice motion and interesting light settings.

[Hai]

In fact, berserks attacked NAKED. I'm not joking - no protection at all, even from mosquitos

Actually they did wear armour. It was just light armour. Attacking naked would be senseless. They were berserkers, not stupid.

and on magic mushrooms

Negative. No mushroom (that they had access to anyway) can cause the reported "berserker-rage". If anything, eating the mushrooms would dull them down, and make them sleepy.

But hey, this is about the art! Which I love. Love the movement, love the composition. Aside from the anatomical weirdness in some of these, great work!

[MurdokX]

toasty whats your website!

[wilson jr]

man great great great work!
awesome!

thanks to share!
Cheers

[evildragonfire]

Beautiful stuff. Odin is supposed to have one eye, be heavier built, and have a shield. I love the Fenris wolf, and Sleipnir (his horse, I don't think I spelled it correctly at all, lol).

[Thalion]

wow. awesome work! amazing stuff, I like the 2nd picture and Rome image the most

[RUDY 87]

Great stuuf and painting style .lighting..shading ..

[toasty]

thank you all for your comments !

>Bigmouth thanks man
>Coleb thanks, those are for some history books (history but with spicy/fun illustrations )
>midknight523 thanks !

> the madpaddy thankyou
>derk who are you ?

>savagetoast thanks, great nickname hehe

Sevans > thanks , see, I'm posting again !

Rhineville > thanks man, yeah that damn cesar pic was some serious pain

>Cloister thanks, I agree for the lion, I don't know much about their anatomy; like you said I like to put myself into difficulty and sometimes the result lacks from some flawlesses on my drawing skills

>hyptosis : thanks !

>jainvan > thanks rendering, compo and color are indeed the stuff I usually love doing; anatomy comes really on the last; but I'm trying to improve, having some life drawing classes and such

>thenightpainter hehe yeah maybe, but those books are for children ..

>devious thanks, yep history is an amasing source of inspiration , sometimes reality is more surprising than fiction

>thanks man, I really love your stuff

>Hai thanks !

Murdokx > http://www.toastyyy.com!

wilson jr > thanks ; I'll try to bring more stuff, got tons of things I haven't shown here

>evildragonfire > yeah your right, Odin was one-eyed at that time unfortunately I missed that detail before sending it; I may correct that mistake later

>Thalion and rudy 87 thank you both !

[toasty]

talking about romans stuff here is some more

I haven't posted them because I thought they weren't as good as the others and could use some more work
anyway here they are :

Mars god of war


Diana goddess of hunt/moon


Neptune, god of the seas


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now here is something totally differerent , I was asked to imitate that old japanese print look for a book about ninjas. tons of fun to illustrate









(it's a he ,not a she, actually he was the first real ninja since he disguised as a woman to betray his ennemy )

[JAG.]

superb! love that asian print style work. excellent.. keep it up - JAG

[Faradoon]

I haven't posted them because I thought they weren't as good as the others and could use some more work

They are great! I'm glad that you started to show them!

Great Stuff!

Thanks for sharing!

[dkounios]

loving the Neptune concept.
the sun rays are a nice touch through the cool colors you
implemented throughout the image. kick ass style all around.
5 stars

[sketchling]

really cool stuff man, Im loving the solid feeling of a story behind them all. Especially neptune and the japanese ones. Fantastic.

[Tom Garden]

oooooh!! more please!! I think your lighting works really well - as well as your sense of composition, especially the boat pic

[Kek]

Incredible work. I love how you show the movement and expressions so full of life.

[Mr-Joe]

http://www.toastyyy.com/images/galer...atorvslion.jpg
and
http://www.toastyyy.com/images/galer...s/abordage.jpg

I think are really good compositions, But I don't really know much about compositions, i still think they are laid out well, did you plan out the composition first or just have and idea and start painting it?