I dropped my keys in the snow

[HotTaco]

another (background) matte painting

[suziQ54241]

Love the simplicity (though it's very complex.) Great use of color, and texture.

[coops]

I love it!!!! that would make a fantastic Christmas card. I love the simplicity of it, it's so pleasing to the eye. Great job.

[RobertSWade]

Very appealing and professional. I agree about the card and the complex simplicity. :)

[jbyrjbyr1]

Nicely done and the color choices evoke a definite "wind chill." JB

[Lee]

Dear HotTaco, this is beautiful!! wonderlandbeautiful! a great card!:)

[Mairzie Dotes]

HotTaco,
Wonderful in its detailed simplicity and palette. Quite creative. Love it! :)

[sandyg]

That's a lot of snow, be hard to find the keys. I agree it would make a lovely card.

[HotTaco]

Thanks for the exceedingly nice feedback everybody. I found the challenge with this one was creating a background that was moderately interesting enough to stand on its own, yet not so "busy" that it would distract from the animation that would happen above it.

Oh hey look, I found my keys!!

k, bye

[jibes]

Excellent!!!

[ScottF]

You´ve accomplished what you set out to do very very well!

[Jim Walsh]

original style and look. very good

[Caesar]

Absolutely wonderful. You must be the drawer of the cartoon Samurai Jack! Your style is practically coincident.

[HotTaco]

Ha! Thanks Caesar, I'm flattered.

[Belvrog]

Hi HotTaco. Really like your style. Cool!

[dragonfly1979]

Hey Hottaco,

I dig your style man! Been trying to replicate that look in photoshop without any success. Would you care to share your process and brush settings for this?

Cheers!

[HotTaco]

Hello dragonfly1979 - It's been awhile (3 years?!?) since I did this piece, but as I recall it was nothing too special. I mostly used AR for the big shapes to emulate real media. If I recall I just smeared a few colors of paint from the tubes and smeared em around with the palette knife. I did this for all the layers (foreground, background, mts, etc) then exported to PSD for a bit of color correction.

Hope that helps. AR is awesome, I wish I had the time to make more BGs.

One more thing that may help: I drew everything in AI first and created stencils for all the layers. Dig?

:cool:

[Caesar]

We miss Your juicy and tasty illustration, dear HotTaco, and wish You to have time for a glorious come back in here, even occasionally.
Greetings

[dragonfly1979]

Hello dragonfly1979 - It's been awhile (3 years?!?) since I did this piece, but as I recall it was nothing too special. I mostly used AR for the big shapes to emulate real media. If I recall I just smeared a few colors of paint from the tubes and smeared em around with the palette knife. I did this for all the layers (foreground, background, mts, etc) then exported to PSD for a bit of color correction.

Hope that helps. AR is awesome, I wish I had the time to make more BGs.

One more thing that may help: I drew everything in AI first and created stencils for all the layers. Dig?

:cool:

Thanks Mr. Taco,

were the spongy textures (dry brush) added in AR also?

Thanks for the quick reply!

Cheers.

[screenpainter]

It's great to see a piece missed from the past. splendid stuff. such a calming effect and beautiful blue. love the vector look you achieved by bringing in from illustrator.