Tal's art gallery [Archive] - THE TOLKIEN FORUM

Talierin

06-13-2003, 08:06 AM

This is *finally* done... week of work in photoshop, heh. I like it though. It's Luthien Tinuviel when she sees Beren watching her dance. The tree part of the background is not mine, it's a pic I swiped off of one of apple's screensavers and added a few filters to... maybe one of these days I'll draw my own background for it.

http://www.eastofthewoods.com/photoshop/luthiensmall.jpg

Scatha

06-13-2003, 11:55 AM

Very nice, Tal. The total pic has a good layout and composition, plus the mix of the two media works rather well.

Keep up this work. :)

Doomseeker

06-13-2003, 06:43 PM

That is good. You really captured the moment there.:)

Talierin

06-20-2003, 06:25 AM

Counselor Frey'la Nakorim (yay for random names!)

This is a new style for me... I rather like it

Wonko The Sane

06-20-2003, 08:16 AM

Beautiful!
I like the softness you gave it. :) And I LOVE Luthien's necklace and dress.

Can I ask a question? How do you get things like jewelry and the hair to have that shiny lifelike quality? I've tried adding highlights and things to those items in my work...but I've obviously not mastered it yet or I would've posted something by now. ;)

Doomseeker

06-20-2003, 04:05 PM

Looks like you're picking up on it quite nicely. Great work! She looks really cool.;)

Talierin

06-20-2003, 06:14 PM

In photoshop I usually do a base color, then (old style here) use the burn tool on that color to put in the shadows, and dodge tool to add highlights. This new style all my brushes were on opacity at 25%-50%, so first I'd put down a base color, and then get a darker color (not the same color made darker, but a color close to the base color made darker) and put that where I wanted things darker, and then get a lighter color for the highlights. When doing the hair I do the colors in strokes going the same way as the way I want the hair to go. After I have all the colors in I use the smudge tool to mix them together somewhat. A note: I usually do all this with my tablet.

Scatha

06-20-2003, 11:48 PM

Very nice Tal. :)

Could you perhaps come up with one of those circular heraldry designs for mirkwood for me?

I'd like the main color to be green, of course. ;)

Talierin

06-27-2003, 05:23 AM

New art! This is an experiment in grey, hehe... bit of a pain to do, but in some ways, easier than other colors.

And sure Scatha, I'll try to get to it sometime this week or next.

Talierin

08-04-2003, 07:09 PM

Random dress design...

Isenho

08-04-2003, 08:13 PM

nice new work. you do women well! ;)

Talierin

08-06-2003, 04:17 AM

Thankee Isenho :)

'Nother new piece, MacAddict did the background in Bryce, I did the mermaid in photoshop

Note: the picture is actually bigger than this by a lot... stupid TTF size limit!

ely

08-06-2003, 02:44 PM

I love that "nightwish" picture. It's mysterious and sad but full of goodness and hope.

Beside, it portrays a character of the story that I'm writing at the moment SO well. :D

Talierin

09-10-2003, 07:43 AM

This was a project in my Illustrator class at college... we had to pick out an illustration, then trace over it as best we could using what we've learned so far... this is the original illustration I chose:

Talierin

09-10-2003, 07:46 AM

And this is what I did with it :)

http://www.eastofthewoods.com/stuff/africa.jpg

Oh yes, and this was another one I had to do for class (tutorial thing out of the book we use)

http://www.eastofthewoods.com/stuff/hats.jpg

Doomseeker

09-10-2003, 04:08 PM

I couldn't see them until I saved the file to my desktop. The Africa one said it couldn't be displayed because it was corrupted but the hats looked really cool. I like the blue one in the top left and the green and white one next to it. :)

Talierin

09-10-2003, 09:04 PM

Hmm, ok.... I've been having troubles with people being able to see pics I stick on my website... need to look into that...

Wonko The Sane

09-13-2003, 03:03 AM

I can't see either of the pictures....

But as for the mermaid picture, is there any way to soften the lines a bit? Because the contrast between the harsh dark lines of the Mermaid is a bit strong against the soft lines of the waves...

But it's beautiful despite that...I just wish I could do something that good....

Talierin

09-17-2003, 05:33 AM

http://www.eastofthewoods.com/stuff/OfficialLogoredo.jpg

This is MacAddict's film company logo... he was trying to get it to look like line art with photoshop, and it wasn't working too well, so I did it in Illustrator for him and fixed some design problems while I was at it. :) I'm very proud of it, heehee. Note: the colors are slightly off cause I had to convert it from cmyk to rgb when I made it a jpeg :( The colors don't blend as much in cmyk

oh yes, and here's a doodle I did in class :D everyone else was doing their stooopid hearts, so I did this, woohoo!
http://www.eastofthewoods.com/stuff/apple.jpg

EDIT: I fixed the Africa and the Hats pics, I hope.... see if you can get to them now

Rhiannon

09-17-2003, 05:46 AM

Heeeey, how is it I've never been in here before? That goes against all reason...

They're all gorgeous, Tal- I especially like the evening gown.

Talierin

09-19-2003, 11:49 AM

My youth group's having a t-shirt contest to pick the design for our new shirts, so here's my entry

Estella Bolger

09-19-2003, 01:06 PM

Nice, like it.

Rhiannon

09-19-2003, 10:22 PM

Ooh, I like it, too. Power House is the name of your youth group?

Talierin

09-19-2003, 10:35 PM

Yep, that be the name.... and the middle school one is Crossfire (which I never understood...)

Talierin

09-24-2003, 11:07 AM

Here's my first actual drawing in Illustrator, and I must say, I absolutely love the way this turned out! Line art is so much fun!!

http://www.eastofthewoods.com/stuff/chick.jpg

Doomseeker

09-24-2003, 04:27 PM

That's pretty cool looking. I'm not too familiar with making vector illustrations but I always enjoy someone else's talent for it. :)

Rhiannon

09-24-2003, 05:32 PM

Tal, that's awesome! I love it! I love her hair, and I love the background. Yay! *applause*

Talierin

10-07-2003, 03:07 AM

I just got (well, ok, joined in January, but haven't done anything with it until now) a DeviantArt gallery... the site's actually pretty cool, everyone should check it out! My gallery is at http://talierin.deviantart.com

Khamul

10-28-2003, 04:20 AM

Yea, Deviantart is a fun site once you get to know some people. It's slow because they are doing server work...

Talierin

12-08-2003, 08:58 AM

My latest piece: http://www.eastofthewoods.com/stuff/timedoor.jpg/

The gateway to the halls of Time...

Adobe Illustrator 10, 10 hours of work :)

Rhiannon

12-08-2003, 04:04 PM

I can't get it to take me to the picture! :mad: :mad: :mad: It keeps reverting the URL to the homepage.

Talierin

12-08-2003, 06:18 PM

Try it on my deviant art gallery.... I've been having troubles with stuff on my website...

EDIT: Here, this should work: http://www.deviantart.com/view/4144117/.[/color]

hehehe, thanks lanty... stupid links *mutters*
If you really like it you can get a print here: http://www.zazzle.com/contributors/...217712962880419

Talierin

02-03-2004, 10:03 AM

http://www.deviantart.com/view/5069506/

Latest vector piece - "Post Tenebras Lux"

Enjoy!

Rhiannon

02-03-2004, 05:56 PM

Oooh, I love it! The colors are fantastic, and I really like that style. I love anything with styla- styaliz- you know what I mean- black lines. And the colors give it that stained glass look.

Lantarion

02-07-2004, 11:44 PM

Tal I've been favving your wonderful new stuff like a maniac, they are so beautiful. :D
But I already left really long comments at the pictures themselves, so I won't repeat them here. ;)

Talierin

02-19-2004, 02:44 AM

*cough* Support an artist! Buy a print of one of my pieces! http://talierin.deviantart.com/prints/

3.5x5 prints are just $1!