I could write a page of gratitude for your continuous support, but I will limit myself to a profound and a heartfelt THANK YOU! You beautiful silky voiced man you...
Cheers Adam! As a Gwent Illustrator, I feel very honoured by your kind words about our work! Love your content man, some of these illustrations were surely done while listening to some of your great videos ;)
A Leshen is actually an interpretation of the Slavic Leshy, which is a nature spirit that protects the forest and leads travellers astray. Looking into the real world mythology that inspired these creatures is always fascinating to me
Ah ok cool, thank you for that explanation! In that case, it looks like it is indeed a variation of the Wendigo - which is also a spirit of the forest/shapeshifter who manipulates people into the woods as well - it can be identified by its glowing green eyes - definitely a relation there especially since the core appearance is pretty much the same
True yeah, it's always interesting to me when completely separate cultures end up having similar mythologies. Its a good way to remember that we're all the same deep down, and as a species we tend to find similar things scary or hard to explain, and so we make similar myths and legends. Anyway, excellent video man, always love hearing your insights!
I ordered this as I love illustration and the GWENT card art has been some of my favorite art to look at lately. I'm also doing ART WOD and I can see where it's really helping my skills after just a few cycles.
Funny thing about the poor fucking infantry in the witcher lore, they saved the whole north by stopping the west nilfgaardian flank during the battle of brenna, kinda cool that these poor farmers and peasnts turned out to save everyone
Also I love the Voice acting in the Witcher. The British accents make my day. It's funny to hear my own accent (Birmingham) being used for the low-level rude and foul guards. Spot on
It's actually cool that you can play Gwent as its own CCG on Steam or GoG for free. I loved collecting cards and playing against other players. Also I would love to see an art of Dishonored 2. I have the book and the art is phenomenal!
I can't be the only one whose Geralt would rather run for the hills than play a game of Gwent? :D I love the art but ohmygosh it is sorta intimidating and I suck at it and I might learn it one day... someday...
obligatory note on Leshen/Leshy - they are of Slavic origins, as their name could be understood as 'forest' in most Slavic languages, in general people believed them to be rulers of the forest, often depicted with deer horns and surrounded by wolves or bears; it was believed that if you met leshen, it meant you got lost in the forest, and unless you turned all your clothes to other side and walked the opposite direction, it would lead you astray and kill you
You always speak in so much detail about stuff like contrast, lighting, composition, etc (fundamental stuff) and I realize the art school I went to never taught any of this shit properly. :/ Great video though, I adore the art of Gwent standalone cards, even though the actual game itself is something I only touch once every so often. I'm not huge on card games because you end up never seeing over 75% of the cards, (and in turn the amazing art), in any actual matches because they are so meta defined.
There are physical cards, two decks came with the collector's edition, but the game was really unbalanced back then and it's a bit unplayable. There's also 6 decks you can buy from China on ebay, but I think it might be a bootleg set?
i'm really upset you got the details of the source of these illustrations wrong. these are not artworks of Gwent in the Witcher 3, it's artwork of Gwent: The Witcher Card Game, which is entirely its own game & not "a game within a game" as you describe.
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I could write a page of gratitude for your continuous support, but I will limit myself to a profound and a heartfelt THANK YOU! You beautiful silky voiced man you...
Cheers Adam! As a Gwent Illustrator, I feel very honoured by your kind words about our work! Love your content man, some of these illustrations were surely done while listening to some of your great videos ;)
No fucking way! Well send me an email with a link to your stuff - I'd love to see it!! (email is in the description)
Instant sub
DirtyDeadEye - do you have a gallery by any chance? I'd love to check out your art.
@@AdamDuffArt sure thing man! I just wrote you
@@DiegoB0525 of course, here it is: www.artstation.com/lorenzomastroianni
Adam: “Today we’re looking at the art of Gwent”
Me: *gently nods head*
I hope they release a newer version, so many new good cards comming out, i honestly play gwent for the most part only for teh cool cardart
The Baron/Lubberkin story arc was absolutely amazing! The art was just as amazing.
Gorgeous art from a gorgeous game of course! Thanks for introducing Artwod, looks really interesting and practical.
This is a book, Ive had on my wishlist! Utterly grateful for the peek inside! My deepest gratitude .
A Leshen is actually an interpretation of the Slavic Leshy, which is a nature spirit that protects the forest and leads travellers astray. Looking into the real world mythology that inspired these creatures is always fascinating to me
Ah ok cool, thank you for that explanation!
In that case, it looks like it is indeed a variation of the Wendigo - which is also a spirit of the forest/shapeshifter who manipulates people into the woods as well - it can be identified by its glowing green eyes - definitely a relation there especially since the core appearance is pretty much the same
True yeah, it's always interesting to me when completely separate cultures end up having similar mythologies. Its a good way to remember that we're all the same deep down, and as a species we tend to find similar things scary or hard to explain, and so we make similar myths and legends. Anyway, excellent video man, always love hearing your insights!
I ordered this as I love illustration and the GWENT card art has been some of my favorite art to look at lately. I'm also doing ART WOD and I can see where it's really helping my skills after just a few cycles.
Thanks for the lighting reminder XD
adrian smith is my hero, his work for warhammer is like the best for me.
Awesome video as always! You did pretty good job with pronunciation :)
Marek! Well I’m honoured to hear from the artist himself - thank you!
Keep inspiring my good man :)
Seeing "Adam Duff LUCIDPIXUL uploaded:" in the notifications always brings a smile to my face!
Funny thing about the poor fucking infantry in the witcher lore, they saved the whole north by stopping the west nilfgaardian flank during the battle of brenna, kinda cool that these poor farmers and peasnts turned out to save everyone
This is the killer content my friday needs. Great job, as always, Adam!
Also I love the Voice acting in the Witcher. The British accents make my day. It's funny to hear my own accent (Birmingham) being used for the low-level rude and foul guards. Spot on
Wow, I was just talking to a friend about how I wanted to pick Gwent back up literally last week
Well thanks Adam... Now i want to buy this damn book xD The illustrations are mindblowing :D
12:42 the perfect way you said "Jezus Maria" really felt Polish of you ;D
Oh I know that one well - I’ve heard it at least 5 times a day throughout the first 20 years of my life lol :)
It's actually cool that you can play Gwent as its own CCG on Steam or GoG for free. I loved collecting cards and playing against other players.
Also I would love to see an art of Dishonored 2. I have the book and the art is phenomenal!
I have the book as well. cedric peyravernay is one of my fav artists, I loved his work in Love Death Robots as well!
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I can't be the only one whose Geralt would rather run for the hills than play a game of Gwent? :D I love the art but ohmygosh it is sorta intimidating and I suck at it and I might learn it one day... someday...
I’ve been playing the witcher for some time now
How much i waited for this :D !
Ps: "There is an artbook, it's called the art of gwent " i cried 🤣🤣.
Man very nice review. Would you do a review of th official dnd monster manual ?
obligatory note on Leshen/Leshy - they are of Slavic origins, as their name could be understood as 'forest' in most Slavic languages, in general people believed them to be rulers of the forest, often depicted with deer horns and surrounded by wolves or bears; it was believed that if you met leshen, it meant you got lost in the forest, and unless you turned all your clothes to other side and walked the opposite direction, it would lead you astray and kill you
Every time i hear Adam Voice acting a little bit. I think that he would like critical role campaign 2
Thank you, Adam.
You always speak in so much detail about stuff like contrast, lighting, composition, etc (fundamental stuff) and I realize the art school I went to never taught any of this shit properly. :/ Great video though, I adore the art of Gwent standalone cards, even though the actual game itself is something I only touch once every so often. I'm not huge on card games because you end up never seeing over 75% of the cards, (and in turn the amazing art), in any actual matches because they are so meta defined.
aaahh man this is the best
A single piece of original Magic The Gathering art has sold for $80,000, maybe more last years?
Please review the art of Sekiro
I’d love to but there aren’t any books available that aren’t horribly overpriced
oh, your mother is from Poland? Cool, I live in Poland I must say your pronouns is not bad. Great work with the video loved watching it!
Well that’s very reassuring! And yes indeed, my family name on my mother’s side is Zolkiewicz”
comme d'hab un petit pouce bleu de la part d'un petit français.
C’est bien une fleur de lys :)
There are physical cards, two decks came with the collector's edition, but the game was really unbalanced back then and it's a bit unplayable.
There's also 6 decks you can buy from China on ebay, but I think it might be a bootleg set?
i'm really upset you got the details of the source of these illustrations wrong. these are not artworks of Gwent in the Witcher 3, it's artwork of Gwent: The Witcher Card Game, which is entirely its own game & not "a game within a game" as you describe.