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Hunaris had been quite smitten with the King, especially when he'd taken her to bed in one of the upper rooms of the inn where she worked as serving maid. A royal reward he'd called it. Three months later the Queen had found out about their little romp and had the woman imprisoned on trumped up charges.Nearly starving and dehydrated a month later, she's been taken out of her cell and riveted into a body cage. Then she was hauled down to the bay where the cage top was attached by chain to a small, crudely fashioned floatandillo craft. Dozens of cocoanuts were added to the craft and knifed open enough to allow them to drip slowly onto the wooden vessel. "You enjoyed one ride, compliments of the King," the Queen had sneered as her men set the craft loose into the ebbing tide. "Let's see how you like a ride that comes compliments of the Queen!"
Hunaris struggled in her bonds as the tide swept the small craft out to sea. Her parched lips longed to drink the seawater, fatal as that would be. The scent of dripping cocoanut milk blew over her and into her nose at odd intervals, setting off her rumbling stomach. Her struggles made the small craft rock alarmingly on the waves however and she whimpered in terror at her predicament. If she stood still the scent of food and water would drive her mad and the craft would go further out to sea where the hope of rescue was pitifully slim. If she struggled to escape the cage she ran the risk of capsizing the small craft before she got free ...
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Amber84 [2023-02-16 10:41:52 +0000 UTC]
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AnthonyDiff In reply to Amber84 [2023-02-17 04:06:42 +0000 UTC]
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Amber84 In reply to AnthonyDiff [2023-02-17 07:56:37 +0000 UTC]
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AnthonyDiff In reply to Amber84 [2023-02-17 23:26:25 +0000 UTC]
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Amber84 In reply to AnthonyDiff [2023-02-18 00:02:58 +0000 UTC]
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AnthonyDiff In reply to Amber84 [2023-02-19 19:29:16 +0000 UTC]
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Amber84 In reply to AnthonyDiff [2023-02-19 19:35:06 +0000 UTC]
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Bettererodite [2015-05-21 16:35:38 +0000 UTC]
i posted a new poem this morning about a lass on a raft, then came across this artwork. serendipity.
one never thinks about the victim's hunger pains. nice added touch.
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AnthonyDiff In reply to Bettererodite [2015-05-22 02:46:45 +0000 UTC]
Yes, it's one I rarely consider either but the idea just seemed to pop into my head. Glad you like it!
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An-Old-Otaku [2014-09-22 21:07:59 +0000 UTC]
I'm shocked! Shocked I tell you!
What a waste of perfectly good cocoanuts! When there are peasant children all over the kingdom going to sleep without a nice warm drink of cocoanut milk!
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Krassandra [2014-07-24 08:00:31 +0000 UTC]
That's what I call "conceptual work".
Technically it's trivial: simple water (like in many videogames), default V4 with default skin, trivial props. Nothing requires big skill or many effort. Novices often make such scenes just to study new features.
The story attached to the image changes everything. It's quite interesting itself, gives a great explanation on what's happening here and lets our imagination to complement all the missing details. I also like the way you've placed a watermark - it looks like watermark, not the header...
In general, this work is a good example how quite big impression can be achieved by the very limited set of details.
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AnthonyDiff In reply to Krassandra [2014-07-26 03:37:10 +0000 UTC]
Why thank you. Indeed, this is one of those pics that is very bare bones in it's set pieces. The most labor intensive bit was (as usual) the lighting and camera angle. The prose only popped into my head after I had rendered it, again as usual. For a stand alone pic I get a general idea of what I want to depict, render it, then have to come up with a story to explain it. Where this particular story came from in the depths of my mind I have no idea. It is however one of my personal favorites due to the sadistic (yet physically painless - so far) nature of what the victim is enduring. I have a continuation of the story in my mind that I may delve into here shortly after I finish the third robot spider saga.
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Krassandra In reply to AnthonyDiff [2014-07-29 11:41:28 +0000 UTC]
Glad that you spend most labor on lighting and camera. Proper lighting and camera angle can mask the lack of details but rich set of complicated props can't mask poor lighting and camera angle - they only stress it When the light and shadow quality is much worse than models and props (very common situation), it looks weird
I don't like self-explanatory works. It's much better to have a "strange" render with no description (it stimulates our imagination)... or just a nice scene with nice story attached. It's even better when the story was written by the same artist.
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tressilian [2014-04-06 23:54:47 +0000 UTC]
Words fail me. The render is fantastic, the situation is exceptional in its cruelty. I'm speechless... in a good way
Thanks for sharing
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AnthonyDiff In reply to tressilian [2014-04-07 22:00:23 +0000 UTC]
Thanks! It is certainly the cruelest story I've yet written. You rarely see art that uses hunger and thirst as the source of peril or distress, mostly due I think to the fact that bodily harm is so much more at the forefront of people's collective awareness.
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brilliantbent [2014-04-01 23:38:01 +0000 UTC]
Pure cruelty & creativity. Amazing peril scene!
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