Madanapale  10/04/05 @967

Great work!.....excellent details, colors and composition!.....My patients would love it!....(and so do I)....!!! Carlos

Repercutir  10/04/05 @968

wow amazing work! I just love it! love the feet and the water!

Hagarun  10/04/05 @969

this is cute! one of the very few fishes im not terrible scared of but the "only paint" link seems not to work? great as usual - my max

deathsythe7  10/04/05 @969

You're style is cool, I like the bright colors you use. Interesting perspective as well. It looks alot different without the colored pencil, I'm not sure which I like better. Their good in different ways I guess. edit: four posts at once O_O

Wysiwyg  10/04/05 @975

lol that's awesome Arne... Two things I like the most...your decision to outline elements as they did kinda run together in the 'just paint' version, and the breaking of the border... I do find it odd where the water is kinda lighter in the center (around the duck's feet) whereas I would think since it's murky old pond water..it would appear darker in the distance...

gimik  10/04/05 @975

You definately have a great style!! Love the colours, especially like how uv added the red key line around most objects in the pick !! Excellent work, u get my max +9

audentia  10/04/05 @990

This is SO cool! I like the different greens you've used, and the red outlines, which makes a nice contrast! The framing is awesome too!

Andy--Jones  10/04/05 @994

This is great Arne.I love the perspective in this, it really works. Those fish are great and the framing is a nice touch, especially where it sort of veers outwards at the top. Great illustration.

Juro  10/04/05 @998

Nice one poo face, the colours are spot on the drawing is excellent and the viewpoint is great. One tiny crit, the duck kinda looks too high in the water, I think it may look better if his body was a bit more submerged. Great work.

ThruMyEyez  10/04/05 @001

Good work Arne. I like the elements of the work breaking the borders. I agree with Glenn that the duck should be lower in the water.

Alterpha  10/04/05 @002

Pretty cool perspective, I love the fish in the middles expression. The whole drawing looks like it's spilling off of the paper. Was that intentional or a happy accident?

Socar-Myles  10/04/05 @007

Hey, great job! Very exuberant. I love the palette you picked, as well. Perhaps the middle fish could "pop" just a bit more, to give even more of a sense of forward movement, but that's just nitpicking. Overall, I'm diggin' the hell out of this.

beatrizmatar  10/04/05 @018

Great work¡¡¡And so cute too. +10 )))) Bea

Stardreamer  10/04/05 @034

MePhIstoZoR  10/04/05 @077

Damn man you just keep getting better and better. Love the style, love the colours, fantastic composition. No crits here mate, this one is stunning.

cupcake  10/04/05 @109

Great That is very cute. Cupcake

eowyn  10/04/05 @139

There are so many cool things from this work, what I like the most is the perspective you have chosen. You are such a pro.

Jane  10/04/05 @276

This is awesome work! Spectacular colours, really, and you got the expressions very well made! You also got the waterlook right. The sky seems a tiny bit too simple to me, though I can see you wanted it to be, other than that there is nothing more to critique. +10

shyamshriram  10/04/05 @288

GRRRRRRRRRRRREAT Illustration !! Those fishes looks lil bit symertrical to me..but its just my opinion. illustration really ROCKS !! Lovely work ! EDIT : U've used distortion in Duck..due to Water ! looks Great !

flowjoe  10/04/05 @297

Fantastic work and man those fishes looks really really freaked out Great work, 10 points naturally

Taintra  10/04/05 @517

pretty cool illustration. good work.

ARTOONATOR  10/04/05 @528

Thanks people, glad you like it.  Alterpha; Everything about it is intentional. I'm starting to be a control-freak  Wysiwyg; The water in the distance is ment to be bright because it's closer to the horizon, where the sun is....maybe I'm wrong, it was a guess, but I thought it would look good on the orange paws.

JapiHonoo  10/04/05 @533

wow.. become your fan... great color scheme .. fantastic point of view... +10

darturbrain  10/04/05 @566

wow beautiful man, i love your style, really like the water and original scene ^^

emarts  10/04/05 @628

I have no crits, man. This is awesome. Actually I have one. I'm not able to see the "only paint" version. I get a Forbidden message.

ARTOONATOR  10/04/05 @662

Can you try again? I just edited the link.

emarts  10/04/05 @666

It works now.

Gianna23  10/04/05 @738

Wonderous! The energy and happiness is just great.Love it! I think more artwork should ahve this kind of solidity and finished feel. So professional I would look for it in a published children's book!

ARTOONATOR  10/04/05 @839

Well, please find me an editor, and I'd send you the book

Meagan  10/05/05 @070

lol this is cute

thienbao  10/05/05 @213

Very cool Arne!! The choice of using the outline gives it a sense of wimsy, perfect for the illustration. Did you ouline it with acrylic too?

maytree  10/05/05 @298

very interesting view the happy duck seems like a cruiser

curlyhair  10/05/05 @502

Great illustration!!I like the water and fish faces expressions Great and original style and good work on details! 9+

ARTOONATOR  10/05/05 @724

thienbao: No, all of the outlines were done in pencils. You can see the 'no pencil' version added.

Hklevjer  10/05/05 @951

I hate those ducks. but I like this

Basw  10/06/05 @631

Wow, this is superb! The angle is very cool. Perfect composition. Top marks!

Biter  10/06/05 @776

Great artwork! Very nice

elf  10/07/05 @282

what a perfect nature exposition again!! amazing!

Rafsan  10/07/05 @352

I personally wouldn't use the red outlining everywhere, to me it doesn't work well with green... I think nature children books is your thing. I'm glad to see traditional painting and illustration at gfx, because that's the style I like most p.s. I haven't been much around at gfx lately, two young children and shift work doesn't give much time to do something else, I've missed so many great works...

eremita  10/07/05 @469

Man! What a huge amount of work! I like how all is deligned by a thin red line, very neo-impresionist.......... GREAT WORK MAN! +10/10

Crow  10/08/05 @887

Cool. Very nice perspective, usually pics showing also underwater are not good, because perspective and colors are a miss. Here it looks like you painted it half underwater and that middle fish popped through your canvas, and that you captured everything dead on. One of the best I've seen lately, not too much to crit. Middle fish could need some heavier line weight to pop it out even more. I could start counting the water distortion on the duck's left bottom part - might be too much a miss but not sure.. at least it adds nice kick to this one. Why don't they have these kind of illustrations in books I see?

MsMichelleLynn  10/09/05 @459

How adorable! I love his little feet!

ARTOONATOR  10/09/05 @503

quote  Crow:Why don't they have these kind of illustrations in books I see? Thanks for the comment. And so positive! The reason you don't see it like this is because the editors world is very carefull. Cowardly allmost, and with reason; Taking risks could cost money. Who says moms would like this, and buy it? I think taking risks could give the editors some of their old status back, but hey, who am I.... At the same time I think; Maybe I'm wrong, maybe this isn't what children would want to see, but just a playground for my own little person.

pegahoul  10/09/05 @528

Uwaaw... cute!

RistTO  10/10/05 @546

this is great!

fantasticvolk  10/15/05 @564

good illustrationand sweet

PeterGrave5  10/17/05 @194

using red as your defination lines really gives the piece a sense of warmth, i'm going to have to try something like that some time...thanx for the idea... professional as always my friend..

edro  10/19/05 @616

great artwork and amazing it would be nice to read your comments about my stuff!

skulpturro  10/19/05 @940

"just a playground for my own little person" Is there something you want to annouce to everyone? Is there a little Arne on the way? Don't you get tired of being so consistantly professional and innovative simultaneously in every single painting you make? *yearns for the days of the famous Artoonator paint-over* You're an impossible act to follow, artistically speaking, I can't decide if that ruins things for the rest of us or "raises the bar". Great stuff, illustrator man, how about cranking out a crappy experimental piece next to take the pressure off us, huh?

ARTOONATOR  10/20/05 @855

Ow, I can do crap, believe me

leloops  10/23/05 @797

lovely sketch and great coloring =) I dig the concept and the dazzled facial expression of the fish haha. I forgot to vote last ttime I commented, here comes my 8/8

jove  10/23/05 @947

This is so gorgeous, just love all the emotion you've put in it +10

VinA  10/26/05 @659

wonderful work! very very nice! +10

trangle  10/26/05 @810

Great pic.

sdavis75  10/27/05 @491

Great work! It's so full of life. Top marks +10

Siphorah  10/31/05 @945

i love your coloring style, great work !

Katea  11/04/05 @578

So nice ;DD I'm working on a similar thing now - t.i. connected with water - not a duck in a water or sth But I do have a one scared fish there ;D 7/8

PatrickBateman  11/06/05 @657

hehe! great i love the expression on the fishys faces....very god job

fabioc  12/16/05 @733

Extraordinary work... very well done, very creative, wonderful colours... inspiring

Slither-Astray  12/17/05 @711

I can't really give usefull comments because obviously you know what you are doing, but what I can say is that this is probably my favorite out of your work

ARTOONATOR  12/18/05 @853

Thanks guys

Cigaro  12/29/05 @695

love it nice compo and colours and mood and style all your work is unique

misiekhc  12/31/05 @582

great picture,

supak0ma  01/25/06 @460

fantastic

Ron-O-Neil  02/01/06 @803

Excellent work. Love the color and details.

bluemonika  02/19/06 @472

lovely drawing

ZedoCaixao  03/18/06 @234

great details! great colors! well done +9/9

Jaq64  03/22/06 @493

I like it ! Great perspective and composition. +8/8

Carpet-Crawler  03/27/06 @786

Shocking use of colors....it's great!

RobRoy  08/13/06 @072

This is my new favorite out af all your work, And thats saying alot +8/8

ari  08/31/06 @576

i like it. like it, like it! =) whether you trust, I have seen the precisely similiar dream. i was a fish, may be, watching up to the duck's paws from a bottom of pond. the same view, guy, have you seen my dream too? =)))

puimun  09/20/06 @833

Hehe, I like the expressions on the fish (if fish faces can have expressions) fleeeeeeeeeeeee the duck! Anyway, intersting perspective, and I like the red outline you used in places, really gives a kind of vibrance to the complimentary greens.

dubiana  11/14/06 @451

heey the fishes are incredible, so well done!

MMB  01/22/07 @481

Perfect! I like color pencil. Very nice style.

Excorbac  06/15/07 @175

Wonderful one. I love how all these animals pop out of the frame, this really had depth. And you even thought of the difference of diffraction in water, making the duck seeming bigger under water. "C'est du grand art" ('it is great art'). (But is it worth to do it if it's intended for children who won't probably notice it?) The best from you I've seen for the time being. top marks! (+9/9)

mementomori  12/15/07 @780

oooh! lovely colors! cool angle ^^ this is my fav Hey day by far