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mofogie — Impossible Odds
Published: 2009-10-11 01:34:41 +0000 UTC; Views: 4497; Favourites: 42; Downloads: 60
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This is for my 3rd assignment.I illustrated Chinese warlord Lu Bu, from the 100s A.D. Chinese warlords were some of the greatest warriors of all time; they had lifetime training of centuries old developed martial arts, highly advanced steel equipment, and fascinating ornate armor.
Lu Bu was the greatest fighter amongst them. He was so powerful he even took on 3 other great warlords, Liu Bei, Zhang Fei, and Guan Yu, each one easily worth a hundred soldiers in martial prowess.
Despite his greatness, his Achilles Heel was his treacherous personality. Zhang Fei called him the bastard with 3 last names, because Lu Bu betrayed two of his former masters, although not out of senselessness. I guess he was just a guy that didn't get along with others, and it was his way or no way.
The tallest trees with the stoutest trunks get smashed by the wind, but the grass merely sways.
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Of course it's impossible odds! It's Lu Bu against thousands of soldiers! They stand no chance...
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Sweet!!! Can I use this in a documentary I'm doing of three kingdoms?
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The piece was structured to give a sense of motion, carnage, battlerage, and transcendence.
The motion was to pay homage to the early days of photography, when they explored frame by frame, movements of figures. The frames i created twist and turn like a cyclone, much as a Chinese warrior would have moved, doing fancy footwork and rotating strikes.
Lu Bu is sometimes depicted with black armor. Black isn't too interesting to me, so i painted the scene at sunset with fire in the sky. I chose a dark green as a complementary color to shadow some of the orange tinted armor. The figure is somewhat accurately scaled to life, i decided not to go for too much exaggeration, to make it look more historical.
The composition of the piece is supposed to give a feeling of transcendence. The cyclone spirals upwards towards the heavens. In Chinese religion, there is a Heaven, and it is ruled by just deities, and is reserved for the righteous. There is also alot of interaction between Heaven and Earth, for example some major events like a calamity or the fall of a throne are attributed to divine acts.
The brush style is supposed to get softer and more abstract as the cyclone winds upwards, giving a feeling of ghostliness or spirituality.
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