GOW
god of war? should be...nice one
Reviews for "Snow Cave"
grrrrrrACK
said the beast as it was pulled out of the cave by its testicles. haha that's so how dragon slaying goes.
you can almost hear the low, gutteral growl of the whatever-is-in-the-cave and
the whistling wind whipping up and around the rocks.
What you said about the lighting though, can see what you mean. Maybe setting the pic in the twilight hours so the glowing orange eyes cast a faint glow on the cave mouth and the intrepid man and dog. Dramatic lighting an all.
LOVE your style, what do you do the pics in? photoshop? Been hankering after tips and tricks of drawing landscapes for aages. Must say though, you're probs one of the bet artist i've seen on this site so far.
i love it
for the fact of the eyes in the cave the blood around it and the fog feature looming out of the cave
Nice style,
I like the look of all your work very imaginative.
Amazing for a speed-piece
I love the composition of this piece. Setting the figures off-centre just makes them look even smaller and outmatched. Just a few suggestions that could bring it up to a 10 and could quite easily be done with a bit of burn tool magic :)
By arranging the cave mouth sitting in the centre of the picture, you'd think your eyes would be drawn straight to the cave however I found that it just didn't stand out enough from the surroundings enough to immediately draw my attention. I guess it's mostly due to the whispy fog (which is awesome and deserves more presence, just not in the cave :) ) which almost blends it into the snow but I think it would also look really cool if you darkened the black of the cave. It would make the eyes stand out more and would just make the whole thing look that bit more foreboding.
Having just typed all this out, I feel rather sheepish when I realise that you already mentioned you could change the lighting but I've written it now so I might as well post it.
Hope this means something to you, I'm normally quite crap at talking about art xD
Stunji responds:
I do quite appreciate the effort! The reason I didn't make the cave too dark is because with painting, the same as taking a photo, you have a very limited value range. You've got essentially 0-10, 10 being black and 0 being white. Because of the nature of human vision, most painters (ones that know what they are doing anyways) will attempt to squish the value scale. Essentially, instead of using every value available to you, you only use say, 2-8. This way, 2 is your white (note that there is no white in this painting at all... you can color pick the brightest spot if you like, and you'll find it's actually a little far from white). 8 becomes your black. (the cave is maybe a 7 actually). This way, you are doing alot more description with less values, which actually increases realism. If you have a piece with several different lighting situations, say you're inside a tomb or something, and the door has just opened, the light will initially seem like 1-3 values, very bright, but once you readjust it's back down to 5's and stuff. It can get very confusing. HOpe this helped though, and thanks again for the long and insightful comment!