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Phoenix by `nykolai:iconnykolai:

Categories Digital Art > Paintings & Airbrushing > People > Fantasy

©2009 `nykolai
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A portrait of my good friend, composer Justin Lassen.

The image is one of a series of paintings that I am currently working on in between work for a personal project, and it will also be the title image of an upcoming article/interview with Justin in 2DArtist magazine.


Right, and before you lay into me, I actually am enjoying this kind of style. It works for what I have in mind. ;]



Photoshop CS
+ close-ups: one | two | three
+ personal reference used for likeness and the general pose
+ I keep wondering how he'd walk in that outfit without tripping...


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~A-rien Aug 8, 2009, 3:03:02 PM
Amazing work, as always. I love your style!
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~aijuxian Aug 8, 2009, 3:11:45 PM
not my favorite of your work, but AMAZING none the less.

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Pursue the dream not the Competition.
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~hetarube Aug 8, 2009, 3:31:55 PM
hi ~

woow :clap:

what a innovated work :clap:

amazing art .. beautiful work

i love the way u draw it :heart:

~ keep going

~ hibiki ~

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Sink deep inside of my soul
No one else knows
The pain of being cold without no feelings
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~Bashai Aug 8, 2009, 4:07:20 PM
He's like a gatekeeper or guardian to some other world, perhaps the world of his mind??

Nice and mysterious...my cup of tea :)

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"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use." - Galileo Galilei :blackice:
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~esteban-art Aug 8, 2009, 4:14:55 PM
awesome work :D

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=steph9668 Aug 8, 2009, 4:22:20 PM
whoa...that reminds me of a dream I had...

I love it! Beautiful work!
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~scarlettfoxx Aug 8, 2009, 4:46:23 PM
wow, i really love the color scheme.

Wandering through Justin Lassen's stuff is really interesting. The portrait seems less a portrait of his likeness than it is a portrait of his creativity. Dunno, makes sense to me *shrug*

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"Interdimensional travel doesn't come with airsickness bags"
- Me

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=fuzzyzebra Aug 8, 2009, 9:10:34 PM
omg he looks like a suave modern sexified harry potter matrix crossbreed.
i love the colours, especially all those hidden ones you've stashed into the highlights and shadows.
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*Mariketa Aug 8, 2009, 11:07:05 PM
stunning, his face is so interesting with that intense expression! The entire scene is captivating, beautiful work :love:

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“Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.” ~ (calvin & hobbes) Bill Watterson
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`Rushy Aug 8, 2009, 11:44:59 PM
There's an energy in this piece that works really well!

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