/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>3443367
he did the ctrl c and the ctrl v on the layer and i clapped

>>3443367
I don't know what I am looking at

I usually dislike this guy's stuff but hey this one is kinda neat actually

>>3443367
as concept art, it is pretty cool. I can't tell what is going on with the towers with weird holes going through them, is it supposed to be under attack by cannon fire of sort, at the towers in the exact same places?

It does have a nice surreal feal to though

Time to play "/ic/ Ruan Thread" buzzword bingo

>>3443367
Is this from the dragon? That's crazy.

>>3443393
it's obviously the sorcerer vaporizing 6 copies of the same building. i don't like the piece but i like the atmosphere, colors, and general composition a lot more than his other works.

>>3443402
At the same time he's also floating the building?

>just fucking copy-pasted the same building 6 times

Is this Ruan Jia's famous """perfectionism""" I keep hearing about

>>3443367
This hurts my eyes

>>3443367
ruan jia is god

>>3443367
Did he just paint one tower and copy pasted a couple a times, then resized it to make them look different?
OMG HE'S SO GOOD! I WANT TO BE LIKE HIM ONE DAY! IS THIS WHAT MAKING IT LOOKS LIKE!? I WANT TO BE LIKE HIM TOO!!!!1!1!!

>>3443367
love this one, classic weird fantasy art, would hang on wall (not really)

>>3443367
damn..

>>3443367
can someone explain to me why /ic/ is so in love with this guy? I mean i can obviously see the appeal the amount of detail, unique rendering style, good atmosphere, i love some of his work, some of them are just fine, but amongst all other amazing artists, why is he getting all the praise?

>>3443367
larger version

>>3443552
because he draws cute girls, plus i think he's just sort of a stand in for all chinese concept art guys

This picture is a mess in all ways, even ignoring the inexcusable copy and paste shit and the figures that look photobashed on the right hand side. If you're going to compliment the composition while that hole in the hill the guy's standing on draws more of your attention than the character itself does and the tangents that character creates besides you should probably stop talking about composition like you know what the hell it means because that's literally the worst fucking part of this clusterfuck.

This is quite possibly the shittiest piece he's ever done, even including that pink haired uncanny valley bimbo

>>3443555
i love how his works have this sickening, grey mist or smog in the atmosphere, like, he truly gets inspired by the apocalyptic shithole he lives in.

>>3443567
>pink haired uncanny valley bimbo
kek, ace description

Honestly I wouldn't even be half as mad if the other buildings were intact. Would've made 10x more sense too

>>3443552
Can someone explain to me why people like you can't fucking read? Go ahead and read through this thread right now and count the number of praises vs the number of critiques for this image.

>>3443570
D :

>>3443388
guys what does he mean

>>3443590

then it would be boring, now you're like wtf is going on, is it the same building? like a magic mirage, or are they mage towers which are all bound together or is it some kind of weird alternating paths dimension and the destruction of the building is a branching point in time. if you'd rather it was just some guy shooting a building with magic that's fine, but ambiguity is interesting, and repetition is strong design

>>3443604
nah, no one is thinking any of that. It's just really weak and amateur story telling. You see this shit all the time in beginner artwork. They add more and more elements to it, get lost in "cool" looking effects and think the more shit is going on the better it will be.

>>3443598
That the same building and whirly water(?) effect was copy pasted 4 times.

>>3443614
well i thought of that, not everything can be pulled down to the lowest common denominator man

>>3443604
Literally nobody is thinking this

Everyone is thinking "Man he sure was lazy with those copied buildings"

>>3443604
>>3443616
>t. retard

>>3443616
You just have a similarly bad taste as Ruanjia has when it comes to random, nonsensical fantasy schlock narratives. That's nothing you should be proud of.

>>3443620
>>3443616
exactly, you look at one single illustration by Moebius like in that last thread and he tells a 1000x better story that you want to get into than dragon-armorslut-Jia

>>3443367
i feel better about myself looking at this picture

>>3443625
TURN OFF NAME

>>3443596
this is obviously an exception, besides my question was more targeted towards people like op that feel the need to create new thread everytime the artist makes something new

>>3443629
>more targeted towards people like op that feel the need to create new thread everytime the artist makes something new

exactly. that's the message to this sucker for RJ: /ic/ isn't your personal twitter or instagram or whatever. stop fucking spam-posting RJ threads all the fucking time. you are just an obsessed little shitstain - you don't even have anything to say about his work, all you do is "new RJ work, wow! this just in!"

>>3443552
I don't understand why everyone sucks James Jean's dick.

>>3443367
why don't the towers fall off?

>>3443552

You do realise this a completely different artist from OP. And James Jean (the second image) isn't even a fucking concept artist.

>>3443624
well Moebius is like 250 years old so idk what you're getting at

>>3443660
Moebius died in 2012.

>>3443367
The atmosphere doesnt fit with whats happening. Its a wizard guy attacking some bases which should be dramatic high energy but the lighting and mood is so calm and serene

>>3443367
did he realy need to do all that copy pasting?
it's just too obvious

>>3443671
>copying
He is chinese afterall.

really don't get why he felt the need to copy paste it several times.
the picture would look completely fine with just the one building and some minor composition adjusting.
instead now it's confusing and lazy looking.

I've been staring at this painting for 5 minutes and for the life of me I don't understand what it's trying to convey.

>>3443694
swordsman/mage is magically ripping holes into (identical) buildings of a kingdom. is that puzzling to you?

i have no idea why he left the tower tops look so jagged and lazy. like the vanishing lines are totally fucked up from front to back.

>>3443659
so? is /ic/ for concept art only? also never stated that pic related should get more attention

You guys are actual brainlets holy shit hahaha

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>>3443698
Yes, the composition and visual storytelling is weak and there's too much going on to figure out what you should be focusing on.
>why are there 6 identical towers
>why is the kingdom in a barren wasteland
>why are the buildings floating mid-air
>is this meant to be a good or bad thing
>who are all those people just standing there watching this happen

>>3443715
i wouldn't have any problem with these narrative question left unanswered. the thing is that execution is weak as well. he has given no care about vanishing pointes making sense, which leaves you with an odd sense of something being wrong all the time. the main fortress is cut off at the top and the composition on the whole is undynamic. from the color composition point of view, you have this standard concept of a huge shape in the brightest tone situated towards the right of the middle and the rest lying either in shadows or being darker in contrast. the rocks to the lower far left are lazily sketched ot and fall apart if you try to figure out what space they try to convey. the tiny people at the foot of the castle are photobashed and randomly placed, so much that the soldier with the back towards the viewer seems to be a giant in comparison to them. the part below the castle can't be identified really, is it a hazy mist, a shadow, stones?
there is always an autistic amount of detail in his work (except for these parts on the edge that he always fails to translate properly), but all those details tell a very thin, unspecific story that seems like you've seen it a hundred times before. and in the end, in this case here, the lazy copy-paste trick dominates the whole picture.

>>3443715
>a simple illustration is too much for /ic to understand

you gotta be kidding.. you're just making up pseudo questions

>>3443552
Because Ruan Jia has a fuckload of fans on Conceptart.org. He also doesn't photobash and /ic/ is full of wannabe concept artists.

He's really good. No one here can paint or illustrate as well as him. No one.

>>3443720
The whole image could be solved by having a single tower, moving the figures more into the foreground and just making it more obvious the wizard is attaching the tower.

He did this in another painting where a character is casting a spell but there is no visual cue or indication that the spell is coming from them. I.E. glowing hands or some other particle effect to show an attack is going off. RJ spends way to much time painting noodling details without working out the basic storytelling in the image, which says to me he's a concept artist. But then I see how boring the designs on his characters and backgrounds are and I question who would hire him to design something.

So I'm not even sure what the fuck I'm looking at at this point or why anyone like this art other than wanna be artist plebs who drool at highly rendered vapid work.

>>3443367
Kitsch

>>3443720
>>3443802
post your fucking work, crabs. I swear this is the most pathetic place full of retards that can't even draw a circle but will have shit to say about work infinitely better than anything they will ever be able to shit out

>>3443807
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>3443802
i'm totally with you on that. the thing is that people on here have very differing expectations in a piece.
while you have these one or two superficial RJ shitposters on here who repost his works as if it was their personal tumblr, there are people that actually look at and think about the content of what he does. this is what they don't like to hear or even think about. they are content with the surface level impression, the polished character.

they always remind me of those people who upload videos of street artists creating fantasy galaxy spray paintings of pyramids and night skies and planets …. it's impressive to a pleb, like "oh, i get to see how it's done! wow, what is he going to make now?". the results are these shiny, sparkly pictures with lots and lots of effects and no idea behind them. this is why i was writing about how his women in pseudo-medievil armor and with some weird mix different tribal cultural jewelry is the epitome of character design mentality: you buy a shitload of reference books on old costumes, armor, crafts and you start copying and mixing it all together. and of course you throw in some dragon slayer shit and mmo magic aesthetics. like throwing your entire Happy meal, coke, burger and fries in a blender and chugging that brown mess down in one go. that's what these works essentially are.

the fact that RJ works are completely bloodless and dead in terms of content and consistency is beyond his fanbase, as they seem to have no expectations in that respect. all they want to see is shiny, sparkly paintings with lots and lots of details, spectacular colors and huge dragons.

nothing wrong with that btw, but the fucking blind and uncritical adoration that doesn't allow any criticism is what really grinds my gears here.

>>3443806
was waiting for that word, classic jelly faggot

>>3443715
>mentioning all that unimportant shit when the perspective on the ''damage'' is so fucked up and doesn't change depending from the angle where it was fired

>>3443854
>not gonna hear it - LALALALALALALA
>criticism is automatically "being jelly"
nice sugarcoated denial you got going there, anon

>>3443870
I mean it's obvious that you're jealous. You can never produce anything better than what was posted in the OP, prove me wrong and post your superior work.

Do we really need a new thread everytime this fucker finishes something?
Get some fucking standarts

>>3443367
Interesting.

>>3443367
You do you guys like this photobashing retard again?

>>3443878
By your logic no film critic ever has a valid point because they can't make the same film, or the average consumer isn't allowed to dislike something and talk about it because they couldn't make something better. Or your boss can't criticize your work because you think he's not capable of doing it as well.

Your brain is fucked mate, have fun going through life.

>moma screeching again
Bueno.

>>3444036
>RJ loli Nambo masturbating again
>denial on turbo mode
molto bene.

>>3443837
>this is why i was writing about how his women in pseudo-medievil armor and with some weird mix different tribal cultural jewelry is the epitome of character design mentality:
I read that before and thought it was a perfect summary of his work. RJ manages to take everything cheesy about those old 90's fantasy paintings, strip out any story telling or interesting/creative aspect and just use all the tropes with a highly rendered digital finish. RJ is an artists that only wannabe artists drool over because of the superficial technical aspect. Once you gain even a slight level of skill or your a normie the novelty fades in lue of more creative artists with similar levels of skill. I don't see his work being shared anywhere by normies and have never seen a working professional talk about him or his work.

>nothing wrong with that btw, but the fucking blind and uncritical adoration that doesn't allow any criticism is what really grinds my gears here.
This for me as well, he's obviously highly skilled but has obvious errors and gaps in his work that the RJ sycophants ignore while their white knighting. I more or less just like to make fun of them because of their blind love, I could care less about RJ's art. It's perfectly fine to look at.

Reminder.
This is your RJ threads reeeeee sperg and his art.
You can recognize all his walls and samefagging ITT.
Keep him in check.

>>3444062
daw, did they say mean things to you again?
it's ok, my baby boy. they can't hurt you over the internet! just post a hundred more Ruan Jia threads and hide all the mean comments they make!

>>3444062

reminder that this butthurt faggot is reporting opinions that he dislikes "using a certain site function against you" … adding "even though i'm probably more racist than you!"
>pic related

>>3444074
cont.

>>3444074
>ban evading
DUDE

>>3443523
Post work

>>3444082
>they cwiticise my fwavowit ardist! REEEEEEEE
post yer werrrrk

>>3444083
>>3443523
Post work of fuck off.

>>3444078
bans expire, you fucking moron.
interesting how Nambo is always the first to violate the "don't bring personal fights to the board" rule and in turns starts autistically reporting posts that do not apply for any violation.

>rightly criticise RJ for an embarrassing "Magic the Gathering 2010+"-tier piece
>of course MOMAron shows up like clockwork

This is probably the shittiest piece I've ever seen from Ruan but it's better than anything you'll ever do you deranged eurotrash numale lmao. Back to Chris Ofecalphiliac's BBC glory hole with you you schizophrenic retard

>>3444087
Jesus. Your posting quality is really /b/ tier desu.

>>3443367
Welcome to the celebration of economy.

where is the dragon? is he behind the castle?

>>3444083
You’re oversimplifying what he’s doing.

I’m not a huge fan of ruan jia anymore but have to respect a lot of aspects of his work

>>3443698
>>3443715
It's like none of you idiots ever played Warcraft 3. The painting is obviously inspired by this scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wRDdX4CCzo

>>3443615
>4
I count at least 6 towers with a swirly hole in them.

>>3444298
theres 7

>>3443806
Passé

>>3444201
Maybe the castle IS the dragon.

>>3444026
you cant compare art to those lmao

>>3444298
>>3444362
except there's some that are literal copy paste and others have differences. It seems you two are retarded. please go back to /beg/

Which companies did hire him before? All of his works are extremely generic and dull, I cant imagine him doing concept art for aaa games n shit

>>3443367
do you hear that, OP?:

>>3444047
>RJ is an artists that only wannabe artists drool over because of the superficial technical aspect. Once you gain even a slight level of skill or your a normie the novelty fades in lue of more creative artists with similar levels of skill. I don't see his work being shared anywhere by normies and have never seen a working professional talk about him or his work.

>>3444465
>Which companies did hire him before? All of his works are extremely generic and dull, I cant imagine him doing concept art for aaa games n shit

cut down on your fucking "RJ just shat out this shilling shocker pic" and you're spending less time crying