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Published: 2016-02-11 20:50:08 +0000 UTC; Views: 32844; Favourites: 464; Downloads: 0
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A beautiful day, even if you're a giant.Done for the amazing THE NINE WORLDS CONTEST at for the world Jotunheim.
From norse-mythology.net/the-nine-w… :
"Jotunheim is separated from Asgard by the river Iving, which never freezes over. It lies in the snowy regions on the outermost shores of the ocean. Mimir's well of wisdom is in Jotunheim, beneath the Midgard root of the ash tree Yggdrasil. The stronghold of Utgard is so big that it is hard to see the top of it. And there the feared Jotun king Utgard-Loki lives. Utgard is carved from blocks of snow and glistening icicles."
So uhm... yeah, Utgard's stronghold is made of ice and all that... and mine isn't. What can I say... this is what I saw or what I felt in the moment I went for it and it's what came out. Certainly not as cold a place as it's probably supposed to be, but I guess we can just call it the er... Mediterranean version? Hah.
Another thing I had to consider was whether the giants are supposed to be gigantic in their world, or otherwise their world was made to fit their size. I've seen representations of the giants being huge compared to nature, but to me it doesn't make much sense that a world made for them would not have the according size, so I went with that. I also added the rainbow at the end as a symbol of the bridge between the nine worlds.
Other than that, happy with how it looks but I just spent far too long on this.
Here's a couple of images zoomed in:
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Stock used:
Featured Stock:
Foggy Bow Lake by EveLivesey
Stock Rock by CD-STOCK by CD-STOCK
Hanging Fishes by YBsilon-Stock by YBsilon-Stock
Roots by YBsilon-Stock by YBsilon-Stock
Roots 2 by YBsilon-Stock by YBsilon-Stock
Other stock:
Castle: At -Stock Castle007 and At -Stock Castle008 by At-Stock
Castle: Castle 32 by KarinClaessonArt
Castle: Castle Stock by XerStock
Castle: Czocha Castle II by feainne-stock
Castle: DSC_0216 Brewhouse Yard Cottages 3 by wintersmagicstock
Castle: PNG medieval house - 038 by HermitCrabStock
Castle: St Andrews6 by faestock
Landscape: Meeting Of The Waters by Burtn
Landscape: Ocean Stock 7 and Rocks 1 by prints-of-stock
Landscape: Viking village by azaleapoena
Tree: Fallen tree2 and Fallen tree3 by faestock
Tree: fir-tree by margarita-morrigan
Giant: Path to Utgard Model Stock by Jrennie1984-stock
Giant: MY fatness by GodsOnVacation
Giant: viking stock 25 by Liancary-art
Out of site resources:
pixabay.com
www.flickr.com/photos/23045224…
www.flickr.com/photos/sybarite…
www.flickr.com/photos/duncanh1…
www.flickr.com/photos/eusebius…
www.flickr.com/photos/kubina/
www.flickr.com/photos/hunky_pu…
And my own stock:
Montserrat, Catalunya 4 Montserrat mountains, Catalunya-3 Montserrat mountains, Catalunya-4
Everything else are my own photos or painted on Adobe Photoshop.
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Comments: 133
Fantastic work!
Thank you for entering our contest and good luck
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Thank you!
And you're most welcome, I loved the idea for the contest!
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My pleasure 
I know 
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This is a fair way
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Wonderful scene ... good luck with the contest, I'm sure you will do well!
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Thank you so much Kim! I hope so, seems like for some reason viking contests are my thing.
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magnificient,this is a beautiful artwork
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Thank you so much!!! I appreciate your words and good wishes!
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great job with the castle, excellent lighting, nice foreground-background separation... I can be picky, but I wouldn't find a single thing to complain about. A wonderful piece overall!
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I could tell you a few things that are wrong though haha... For instance the river goes clearly downhill while the water reflections make it look like static water.
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haha, you must be kidding!
I guess you're even pickier than I am, but either way I think some design choices are preferable over 100% realism.
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But yeah I'm quite picky specially with my own work. If I see something wrong I can't leave it be. This was easily 50 hours though and I just had to say enough at some point... Think I probably need more practice with easier stuff so when I try to do the epic stuff it goes much smoother.
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My problem is more the not knowing if something is wrong. If it's obvious I'm happy to spend the extra hour, but sometimes I just keep staring at it and end up needing someone else to tell me what's wrong.
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Thank you so much Ripley!! I'm happy you liked it, was sweat and tears haha.
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Guau... Un trabajo extraordinario Roger, me encanta.
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