ATLAS - BORIS TRIBUTE

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It's very clear the inspiration was Boris Vallejo. He is also one of my favorite artists and a personal 'hero' of mine. I spent many long nights trying to unlock his secrets of painting.

Your piece comes close to capturing the 'Vallejo' feel, and the main figure is very well done. The overpaint is skillful and complete - good job there. The world is also very eye-catching and the sidelight is a good mechanism for drawing your eye towards Altas himself. The atmospherics are, as usual in an Isikol piece, top quality.

However, there are a couple minor details that don't seem to fit with the rest of the piece (let me underline MINOR). In particular, the rock he's kneeling on is clearly pasted in. It doesn't match the painted feel of the Atlas figure or the world. At a minimum, it would need similar highlight intensity and souce as the main figure (or as an option, have almost no highlight at all, leaving the figure alone in the light). I would recommend overpainting the rocks as well, since you did so with the main figure... and I think leaving them as shadowed as his legs would help place them together in the image.

The dragons are also a little odd - they look like raw renders in a painted piece. Make sure you use the same 'language' artistically when you do your final composition.

Otherwise... great work!