The Fat Cat - Book Cover Illustration by duncanlong

2D • Realism • posted on Sep 08, 2007

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This is a portion of one of three illustrations for a book cover. This "fat cat" is a crooked businessman. This was all painted in Corel Photo-Paint 8. As I did the digital painting, he sort of took on a life of his own, something that is always a joy yet also a bit frightening. I suspect this realistic style would best be described as "crazed Norman Rockwell."

Comments (17)

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Mondwin

9:37AM | Sat, 08 September 2007

Fantastic and very amazing paint...bravissimo!!!!!!!!!!!V:DDD.Hugsxx

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kenwas

10:12AM | Sat, 08 September 2007

This is superb work my friend! Just excellent!

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odie

10:34AM | Sat, 08 September 2007

Yes, I was thinking Norman Rockwell!! His appearance is of a character I would like to get to know about!

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cameraobscura2

11:04AM | Sat, 08 September 2007

I can understand ones artwork taking a life of its own, having experienced this a few times myself. Forgive my saying it, I jsut wish it were larger to be able to enjoy all the refinements of the illustration. I still cannot get over the fact it was done using the computer as I would have thought the more traditinal method of gouche material was used. Never the less, this is excellent work! Thank you for sharing. egmont

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Oils_on_Display

11:42AM | Sat, 08 September 2007

.:'crazed painting' great work!:.

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MarkHirst

12:17PM | Sat, 08 September 2007

With that level of realism, I'm not surprised he came to life. I've just installed the eval of Painter, I can't imagine how to begin doing something like this!!

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duncanlong

12:26PM | Sat, 08 September 2007

The learning curve for doing something that approaches a painting is steep with Photoshop, Photo-Paint, and so on. At first, my results looked like something that first graders might do with tempera paint. However as one learns the various ways of blending and which brushes work well, things start to progress. I would suggest that ArtRage (available in a freeware edition) is a good program for creating painterly work.

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sittingblue

2:13PM | Sat, 08 September 2007

Excellent painting. Yours skills are well-honed. I think this fella appears a bit too mainstream for a truly devilish crook. Then again, as it is, I wouldn't trust him with the time of the day. ;)

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