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iQew
Kjell joined Mar 15, 2008
My name is Kjell Bunjes and I'm currently living in Germany. I am Team Leader, Concept Artist and Art Director of the upcoming Action Adventure Mindworld. Creating art is a passion of mine for about 3 years now and I'm also fascinated by Psychology. Learning about Social Dynamics, Body Language and Leadership Philosophies is something I do on a daily basis for more than 7,5 years already. This profile has been in use since Winter 2009 and grown ever since. I appreciate the interest that the ModDB community has shown up to here and I hope to inspire even more people out there. You can get notifications about my updates, if you click on the track-button on the right-hand side. Whenever you have a question, don't hesitate to write me a private message, I usually respond within 10 hours (except for weekends). At last, I hope that everyone has a great time and enjoys what he or she is currently doing in life.
Sand Caves
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Had a lot of fun here. Tried out a new technique, which I really like. I'm not happy with the colors and light, still so much to learn for me.
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Beautiful! The colours to me make it look natural and an old forest landscape that has decayed through time. I don't know what colour your aiming for but man, its better then whatever I can do :P
Q, let me put it like this: if this were on DeviantArt or any other website with a similar system, this image would go straight to My Favorites!
Fantastic work on this one, I love the lighting, the details, the theme, even the colors and pretty much everything else =)
I could not agree more Admiral - truly well stated.
Wow...Simply amazing...
Bloody hell, I freaking love the setting: Light entering a cavern, The reflection of the underground water and That stairway to the ruins creates a huge suspicion. + OVER 9000 to you my good sir
Its amazing! different to the usual dark-blue colours yet still contains the ambience of your unique style! plainly said - Awesomesauce!
really hope you can achive the near same feel of this picture with UDK, it should :)
This has nothing to do with UDK.
I think he means it would be cool to have this amazing color scheme and ambience in-game.
I agree, your concept art is so amazing with dramatic lighting & color...
I can't wait to see some in-game screenshots with the same feel
Yeah, would be cool. But, this is a personal piece of art, which is not related to Mindworld. So, it's never going to be realized in UDK.
Hey Q, where did you go to school?
Why do you ask?
So how many different photographs/paintings are used in this picture? I know you are working a lot with shapes and custom brushes (like the character), but I'm never sure about how much you actually paint. Where I see brushstrokes they seem to hide the underlying architecture and ground detail. The river looks painted, but it isn't painted the same style like some of the rest.
It's a great atmospheric painting and I'm quite baffled about the progress you made, remembering your tries to color and paint out stuff a year ago. This is a huge step ahead, but I wonder, if you base your concepts on existing paintings and work mainly on the composition. I wonder what's the ratio of painting versus copy/paste? Important is that it looks great and inspires. And it totally does that.
I worked around 1-2 hours on the composition and used around 5-10 paintings and photographies until I liked the result. At that stage, I already concentrated on neutralizing the atmosphere/light of the material, which required painting here and there.
After that, I started to refine the edges, added elements like the trees in the midground and foreground, added rocks here and there and so on. Some parts were painted over in that early stage so much already that the base was completely gone. I've also used some of my earlier paintings in there, but those are just very little elements.
Then, I added a base lightsetting and worked on the contrasts until the black and white painting felt done. A base color was introduced, which made some parts of the painting extremely dark, as the coloring technique was a bit different than usual, but I liked the result. In that phase I also started to paint some details here and there, refined the contrasts again, added a lot more light to it, added some more shapes, refined the edges again, worked with more textures for fine details and finally worked out the figure.
When that step was complete, I spent around another hour or so on refining the edges, working on level of depth, adjusting colors, adding more atmosphere and final details plus presentation.
Some elements can still be identified, if you look closely and know the original well enough, but it wasn't my goal to paint everything out completely, it was just for fun and I wanted to save some time.
Thanks for explaining the workflow. Important is that it works for what you want to achieve, and the picture does give a great impression. I've been wondering myself, if I should start using other images as basis. For example still images from movies I watch. That's no different than using photographs for matte painting, so why not do it?!
I would hardly say this deserve much credit at all. I have been taking looks at you work from the past and present and it seems obvious that you lack an understanding of how to actually paint without first taking photographs, manipulating them, and then painting over them.
Your photo manipulations are under no circumstances a viable substitute for paintings done entirely from scratch, so please don't take the same credit for something that would have otherwise taken 100x more skill to do.
No offense but you’re getting much more credit then you deserve (if any), just looking back at your previous work shows me that you lack technical skill in almost all aspects of art fundamentals, proportions are off in almost all of your animal and human related concepts, and your rendering skill is far below sub-par. This tells me right away that the value, perspective, and form in your painted Environments are originally from photographs. Your reliance on photos is sickening, in fact I can't even take it seriously, it's a joke.
It seems you would be much better as a graphic designer, not a fine or concept artist.
If you ever plan on selling your artwork, well buddy those photographs better not be copyrighted. And if you think, for a moment, that if you can get a job in the professional world doing photo-manipulations solely as concept art, you will get laughed at. Try taking your work onto conceptart.org for critiques, and just so as mention that these included as many photographs as they do right now, they'll tear you apart for the inconsistency in pieces between the ones actually done using your drawing/painting skills and the ones done using your artificial photo manips.
Want to know how to actually paint without directly taking photographs? It's called not painting over photographs or manipulating them. It's called using photo-graphical reference for elements of your painting, but not actually copying the photo directly.
Matte paintings I can understand the need to paint over photographs, that's a viable application, however, when you lack all of the technical skills as a fine artist it is utterly pointless; otherwise you are just limiting yourself by depending on a select number of photographs and collaging them together without actually being able to come up with a composition using your own drawing/painting skills. It's extremely limiting and will hardly get you very far.
Now how about you try a painting entirely from scratch? Let’s see how your fans respond when they notice the grotesque inconsistencies. Though I'm sure they will respond positively, most are about the same skill level as you in drawing/painting.
Thank you for the time to write such an essay. I've talked to the people whose works I've used in this piece and they all agreed that it's okay for them, if I use their work. That's mostly because you really have to know some pieces extremely well to recognize them in my work here. That's definitely not for all sources I've used, some can be identified.
However, I have to disagree with you on a point here. The materials I've used had various lightsettings that didn't fit together until I neutralized them to then set my own lightsetting to them. In order to do that, there's an understanding of light/atmosphere/mood necessary.
I know I'm getting a lot of admiration for this piece and I got a daily deviation on deviantart for it with hundreds to thousands of people loving this piece. But, you're forgetting an important aspect here. I'm not running around, showing this piece off to everyone to brag about my artistic skills. I'm not trying to become a professional concept artist or artist at all in my career any more, I've stopped practicing for that and I'm only doing it for fun now.
Also, please don't forget that I didn't just take random pieces and put them together for a randomly good composition. That would have taken like 5 minutes to do, but I used 1-2 hours until I've found several materials that work together nicely and give a good composition and feel. I never claimed to have painted this entirely by myself and I've also explained how I got to this result.
The people know various paintings that I did from sketch and yes, they stand out with a lot lower quality than this piece and that's mainly due to the time I've invested in them. It's not possible to paint something like this in 1-2 hours for me, but I'm sure I could do it 50-100 hours. The problem now is that I don't work for the results anymore, but only for the fun of the process and I don't have the discipline to work that long on one piece, because I'm not THAT passionate about painting like some great artists are.
You're right, this piece gives off a false impression on my artistic abilities, because I've used a big time saver here, but why do you care so much, if it was just for fun for me? I'm not taking away anything from you, no possible job, no extra fanbase, nothing at all. But it seems like you had quite some bad experiences with people who "cheated" their way to a good result while you couldn't achieve it in the same time with the "right" techniques. Maybe I'm wrong on this one, I don't know you at all and it could be totally different, but that's my current impression here, since you invested so much time and effort to write so much on why I suck as an artist and don't deserve the attention I got.
I also don't care, if I have 100 trackers on ModDB, or 5,000,000 watchers on deviantart or the whole conceptart.org community admiring my pieces, I'm doing art for myself and not for other people. There's a little core group of people that continue commenting on my pieces no matter how much they suck and that's about 5 people, but that's more than enough for me, as again, I'm doing art for the joy of the process and not for the admiration to push my ego.
Amazing work master iQew!
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fasinating
Very nice done!