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Published: 2015-01-14 18:02:05 +0000 UTC; Views: 2726; Favourites: 200; Downloads: 0
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I'm drowned with work these days and barely have time to work on personal stuff. I try to find at lease 30min each day and do something for portfolio.This is one of these pieces that took around 2 weeks to finish on and off.
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All I can say is BEAUTIFUL! Love the slant of the rocks and the sky! You're sooooooo talented!
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Wow, such a stunning use of light. I really do think the lighting scheme is what makes this image as spectacular as it is.
The way the light seems to shine from the left is very decisive; the sharp piercing of brightness on the horizon line provides a sharp, succinct source of light.
However, it's extremely, extremely quickly drowned out by the thick, heavy clouds and the unforgiving landscape in which seems to not even take in any of the brightness. Such an unforgiving display of darkness immediately is seen in the image.
Such an immediate stomping of the source of light immediately signals this foreboding, dark atmosphere, and that notion is carried through as the scene gets darker and darker as it draws right.
The use of progression there is very effective and really gives a good dynamic to the image, particularly supported with the rising hill.Β It almost appears as if the darkness is growing, strengthening and aroused within the shadows.
The looming, harsh spikes that tower from the ground also support this very dark atmosphere, creating not only a desolate nature with the barren, dead landscape, but implies a sense of fear.
It's almost as if, with the angle of the spikes, they're purposely facing towards the light, as to warn it off like some sort of tribal technique of fear, such as a porcupine or pufferfish's reaction towards danger, except in this scenario the danger seems to be coming from the darkness itself. So, perhaps more like a lion's mane, haha.
The birds escaping from the clouds also reinforce this, as if all life is straying away from the castle.
It's as if the darkness is rearing its ugly horns at the light. I love that portrayal and it's just so powerful, and reinforced with the lighting scheme works perfectly.
It thus becomes very clear the dark castle is extremely hostile, and with its even taller, more ominous structure as compared to the spikes, quite the fearful atmosphere is portrayed.
The way the image ends off just swallowed by the darkness is very effective, and conveys this very dark sense of mystery as to what lies ahead. The landscape just seems to fall into the void, very engaging indeed.
I feel as if because the structure and spikes are essentially the same colour as the darkness, it's almost like the landscape itself is a manifestation of the shadows. Thus, I suppose the castle and scene could be taken as a metaphor for darkness, or for fear; the way it prods off hope and light, warning it off, looming over all of us?
Obviously this is immediately engaging and sets off the atmosphere incredibly whilst triggering a lot of thought.
Again, simply stunning use of light and composition to really force that desolate atmosphere.Β I'm glad you've found the time to do this, because it really is great! Keep it up.
Awesome work!
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Wow what a dark, atmospheric scenery! I really love it.
Is there some kind of advice you could give to someone who wants to start drawing sceneries like your stuff?
Keep the awesome job c:
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Thanks.
Advice I may give is study, study a lot.
Study movie stills, photos and other artists work.
Try to grasp what appeals to you in that studied stuff, write it down and then try to emulate that.
Cool exercise I found is first do a study of a photo [try to paint it as close as possible to the original but without over-painting, tracing, texturing or color picking] and then do another one but without looking at photo reference, from memory. It doesn't have to be exact same picture but try to use what you've learned from that previous study.
For example: take a beach sunset photo, make a study and then use color palette and setting to change it to something else, like sunset on an alien planet with islands flowing through the air [I know, I know, couldn't gone more cliche with that 
Hope that makes sense.
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Thank you so much for the advicesΒ Β !
It really means a lot to me c: I'll have to try that out some time and I hope to get somewhat close to your quality with enough practising.
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Np keep drawingΒ
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This is crazy! Damn, I want this to be a map on a game or something...
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