Journey Across the Desert, Daniel Romanovsky (2D)

[Irawan]

Great Work! like a lot the atmosfer from your painting

[lucaorlandi]

Simply amazing! The perspective that you used is perfect. :drool: I like this work

[patrickdigi]

great one!

[Subi3d]

Hi Daniel, The ground and everything seems to be perfect..Sky is also cool when it is viewed separately. But together they don't seems fine. I think its because of the blue tone of the sky.
If you thinks the same way, please make it a bit brownish. :beer:

[AlessandroArdolino]

greatly balanced illustration!
why don't write something about the creation process, I mean about the brushes you created and so on.

greetings anyway :)

[MarioVeltri]

Nice composition and good colors.
I think the bones looks too much photoreal :p

[Boykinov]

Hi Daniel, this is very good idea and mood, may be you can do the sky colour little more strange.
Regards !

[AnnaBerentsen]

I also felt like there was something a little weird with the sky, and I think it might be how cloudy and wet it seems in comparison to the dry desert below it. Maybe lighten the clouds a little so that they seem like the kind of clouds that would hang over a desert full of sun-bleached bones. They would probably be more whispy, the kind that don't really produce rain.

[phoenix]

looking great.


regards

[FormLanguage]

Thanks for the responses everybody, I am glad you liked the image. In terms of my compositional choices behind the clouds that some of you have responded to, let me explain.

I actually meant for the scene to look like a rainstorm was coming, which occasionally does happen in the desert, hence the storm clouds from the left. For that reason I kept the color saturation on the ground fairly low in comparison to what it would be on a bright sunny day. I also added grayish blue color accents on the ground to help blend it with the sky.

Here is a couple of images by the 19th century painter Jean-Leon Gerome, that demonstrate the use of a similar color pallet in a desert scene.

Memnon and Sesostris (http://formlanguage.squarespace.com/storage/hosted-images/Memnon-and-Sesostris.jpg)
Egyptian Recruits crossing the Desert (http://formlanguage.squarespace.com/storage/hosted-images/Egyptian_Recruits_crossing_the_Desert.jpg)

I hope this clears up the reasons behind my decision making.

AlessandroArdolino - For the most part I used standard photoshop brushes. I have a special custom brush I created for rock textures which I used here and there and I also used my own custom brushes to paint the clouds. I mostly paint at about 90% brush opacity and do my blending at the very end.

Cheers,
Daniel Romanovsky

[Ferrick]

Hi, Dany:

I,m new in the CGS and I´m writing to all artist that I considerate interesting. Your work is very fine and I´m agree with you in the case of the clouds. I´m spanish and in my country are big desert areas where is frequently to see moments like this, with very wet and dark clouds in the sky while the land looks warm and dry. This is a very beautiful contrast effect and you did catch it perfectly in this illustration. In other way, the concept and composition are perfect and very impactant.

Congratulations and keep working.
Ferrick. :thumbsup:

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