A Gimp 'Frazetta' inspired piece I created a few months ago...

i can clearly see the Frazetta inspiration !

Thanks Esper...

I'm greatly pleased with the way this image evolved, It is what I had hoped it would be.

Thanks to 'Frank'!

excellent

Thank you Cecilia...

I love that effect!

Thanks 2-ton,
I wish I would have saved the .xcf of this image.
I have a bed habit of deleting things before there time, Especially my .xcf files.

Great piece of work but I shall show my ignorance and ask what is "Frazetta"

a famous fantasy artist, he4rty

http://frankfrazetta.net/index.html
http://frankfrazetta.org/

Thanks Esper.

Thanks Esper,

Also FYI...

Frank Frazetta: (February 9, 1928 – May 10, 2010) was an American fantasy and science fiction artist, noted for work in comic books, paperback book covers, paintings, posters, LP record album covers and other media. He was the subject of a 2003 documentary...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEOokuyj1ws.

Frazetta was inducted into the comic book industry's 'Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame' (The Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards, commonly shortened to the Eisner Awards, are prizes given for creative achievement in American comic books, sometimes referred to as the Comics Industry's equivalent of the Oscar Awards.)
in 1995 and the Jack Kirby Hall of Fame (The Jack Kirby Awards are for achievement in comic books and were presented from 1985-1987 by 'Amazing Heroes magazine', and managed by 'Fantagraphics' employee Dave Olbrich. It's named after the pioneering writer and artist Jack Kirby, and voted on by comic-book professionals) in 1999.

Great work!

wallace: lovely work! looks a lot better than the stuff i saw in those links, yours looks a lot more imaginative. love how the horse turned out!

@ Merrak

Great?

I must thanks you for this.

@ AnMal,

I'm floored my your comment.
There is no possible way that my Frazetta inspired piece could ever begin to compare to the Masters.

Nonetheless, thank you...

The huge heavy-hooved horses ridden by cute curls are a staple of Frazetta. He was an oil painter so this is not quite similar in technique, but the theme certainly fits!
Nice dramatic take on it, the sillouette could well be a frazetta girl. Did you draw the outline yourself or is it based on a stock? Good work in any case.
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Griatch

PS: Fun fact: The classic look of Conan the Barbarian (as a super-muscular, long-haired dude) is solely based on the work of Frazetta. In the books he's not described all that much, he's probably intended to be more lean and slim than being a body builder. Frazetta defined how the "barbarian" archetype should look:
http://frankfrazetta.org/images/frank_f ... _conan.jpg
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Griatch

@ Griatch,

Thank you.

The only references used were found using google for horse parts, other then that it's all Gimp and I.

Cool! Lots of excellent details in the outline, especially the hairs - getting the whole thing so clean must be a lot of work in GIMP, I would have expected Inkscape to be involved somewhere. Most interesting. So is the outline drawn using the ink tool then or is some other GIMP workflow involved?
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Griatch

Just your basic & , with brush dynamics. Nothing special, followed my out line and improvised with the when needed.

I love it wallace. Kudo's