Very lord of the rings era. Really nice and great detail..

Thats coming from an non artist lol

10+

very nice ... good choice of colors;
armors are great

Beautiful details in the left armor, pretty awesome color, +8/9

my only crit. is the snow in the left boot.

I like the colours, the characters are very interesting, very good detail, the armour is fantastic. I agree with AHuman about the Lord of the Rings look.

Good job.

The sky suggests evening with grathering dusk, the only possible source of warm light on the figures is the fire - but the fire (weak enough to not light the log much) is below, and the figures are visibly lit from above. What magic makes that happen?

What I mean to say, this is very detailed but has inconsistent lighting.

very detailed, love the contrast! good stuff!
+10

Very Good, you do beautiful work!+9

really nice, love the detail, fire needed a bit more work. good work

Arenhaus your monitor must be seeing things different from mine. The log is the brightest lit area with warm....they are lit from above by the moon...with blue light...the same as the mountain in the background the top of the cabin in the background...etc...shadows in lower right hand corner...One doesn't need to show the moon for it to be a light source...Without moonlight lighting this whole scene it would be black with just the fire and they would only be lit from below and all you would see was the windows of the cabin. One must assume that something else is lighting the scene or there can be no scene.
So I plead artistic necessity...

JESUS CHRIST, Kay, how did you do those armors? This is your *absolute best* I have like ohing to criticise!
But gosh, that armor! Wah! *faints*
All of the details, the coloring.. so crips.. so perfect! Max points!

Nice concept!I like your armors design.The left guy doesn't look so guy...
Good work on colours
9/9

Thank you all so much for the comments.
LOL..yep I got a bit anal with the armor detail. I like doing costuming though. The order was for elaborately decorated armor...sort of like the spanish armor. I looked at some of that and NO WAY I could do all the carving that they had on it. I would still be painting. Besides....different time and fantasy...but the flavor needed to be there...So I just did my idea of elaborate carved armor and then had to slap my hand to stop. Texturing and impressionistic texturing at that isn't very hard to do. If you work large it is mostly dot dot squiggle then when you reduce it down it looks like something.

I just looked at your other image of the man with the bow - and I'd say similar things about this one. While your attention to detail is admirable, the strange androgny of these figures makes them look like women disguised as men. If that's your intention, then that's great - but if not, then you might want to study men's faces more closely. Usually their eyes seems smaller, and they don't usually have dark eyelids. That's what's making these figures look like they're wearing eyeshadow.

It'd be great too if you'd pump up the drama in the light. The fire would likely cast some much stronger oranges and reds on the figures, as well as creating much stronger shadow patterns. That would "sell" the image much more if you made adjustments to the lighting.

Hope you don't mind the critique - I just think you're almost to making some really nice work if only the few weaknesses in them are addressed.