razz : Glad u liked my piece…looking forward to see ur post 
Rebecca : Thanx a lot…glad to know that my work is different and good at the sa me time 
Thanx for that linx…Man…what an amazing work Bumskee done…:eek: i wish i could paint like him 
i think i cant add cloud in my concept…i m trying to show some horror look here…and no space for clouds too 
update
shyam,
It might be really cool to see you go for an even longer / wider format and to include some sort of chasm and a crazy perpsective, something like the Balrog scene in LOTR…with smoke / ash, etc. spewing up from the depths. Just a suggestion.
Cheers,
~Rebeccak
Oh man…U r soo fast Rebecca thanx for the ref.
Yep, will try to tweak the compostion… Thanx again !
okay here are some new perspective sketches. Let me know what angle you think is best, thanks.
architectus Crazy imagination buddy ! 
the first one looks really dynamic…looking forward for the updates :bounce:
alright Rebecca…i tried to tweak a bit…hope this isnt looking more pathetic now
Hello guys, newly registered just for this competition; what a great idea. Just a preface before I post: I sketched out my work and something seemed familiar, so I dug up a Brom art book I had and much to my dismay, found I’d unwittingly drawn upon a painting of his on some subconscious level; the character and pose are similar, which bothers me so I may start over and do another piece (if any of you have the Brom Darkwerks book, it’s page 95). It was enough of a concern that I had to bug Rebecca in e-mail before even posting, however she was kind enough to give me the green light so here goes:
and the paintover WIP:
I drew on some medieval concepts and religious interpretations; the Devil has awoken from his long imprisonment at the core of the Earth, and is emerging to take his role in events. Again I am not sure if I should continue with this or just start over, we’ll see.
This is a great subject, I’m eager to see what everyone comes up with!
Alrighty… so I think Im close to what I want. Im still a little on the fence with the layout but its close enough for now. I gave the giant a club to fill up some space on the left… I might mess around with a slightly dimmed background later. I’m using colors from several Caravaggio paintings for my color palette for the moment. I like the contrasting colors on the loin cloths for that whole play on good and evil. More updates to come - J
Let me know what angle you think is best, thanks.
The first looks best to me, but consider lowering the camera to the height of the wizards head, so anubis looks bigger
WHhheewww… that is AWESOME!!!.. I love your pencil work bro. In my opinion this is probably the strongest piece Ive seen for the challenge so far. Absolutely beautiful start man… I cant wait to see where you take this. :buttrock:
architectus,
I think it’s great to see you really experimenting with perspective, and I definitely like the first sketch best; I think you could take the perspective even further, and have the angle be looking over the painting / statue’s shoulder and down at the tiny figure ~ you still want to resolve what might be happening in the vast, empty space to the viewer’s left. Keep pushing these concepts!
shyam,
Great to see you playing with this concept, you’ll have to determine if you like the new direction or the old best ~ I’m just here to make suggestions, I don’t see any of what I say as being right or wrong. Keep going, would love to see what you do next.
Shaolin7,
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EDIT:
Mecha,
One suggestion I might have would be to potentially overlap the two figures a bit more / give the giant more of a forced perspective. Think of where the viewer’s view point is and maybe block that out in terms of perspective blocks ~ the giant, I think, woud recede a lot more in perspective than he is doing now. My 2 cents.
Cheers,
~Rebeccak
Yep, this is actually what Ive had in my head and I thought I came close in the earlier b/w comp. The more I look at last sketch the more it bugs me. I’m just gonna redraw it instead of trying to adjust it in Photoshop. - J
NR43, I find your use of simbolism to be very interesting, I would really like to see it finished
Shiam, that’s a really cool giant, and great coloring too O:
Well I made another concept:
Hi…NR43…LIKE THAT GROUP COMPOSITION, and your thoughts behind it…
Was thinking about the old saying…The GODS got bored sitting up in their eternity,…looking down at us mortals,… so every once in awhile, they would creat WAR, just to liven things up, and amuse themselves…Might look great in your concept, if there were a few GIANT GODS,
sitting up in the clouds above this scene you have created…maybe betting on the outcome
or something…
…just a passing thought…
Hi…Shyamshriram…Was thinking of the Hawian Volcano GODDESS PELE…Her destruction brings with it ,…NEW EARTH, AND A CHANCE FOR NEW LIFE TO CREAT ITSELF…Just a thought while looking at your painting…maybe food for thought, for your concept…:shrug:
KEEP GOING EVERYONE…some really nice thoughts starting to materialize, and take shape…
TAKE CARE
Glenn
Shaolin7 What a beautiful drawing mate :eek: You should post more works…
Talaria : Thanx
SpiritDreamer : Thanx for telling me about Hawai Volcano Goddess…i had no idea about that…
Small update
shyam,
Great to see your update.
One thing that you might ultimately resolve is the smoke / tree / flame perspective ~ if all of that toward the top of the picture is suddenly overhead vs. receding in the distance, then subtle color shifts / atmospheric perspective might go a long way toward making that believable.
Great stuff so far!
Cheers,
~Rebeccak
August 27, 2006
Chiseling away and refining this Zbrush sculpture, and CREATION of mine
AWAKENING EARTH SPIRIT // SPIRIT EARTH
Glenn that’s a great suggestion, weren’t it that Ares was hated by most gods. But it’s sure worth a try! I will first try to complete this part, if there is time left I’ll give it a shot… Thanks!
Talaria Thank you Still got a long way to go though but I’ll finish it, even if I don’t make the deadline. Nice drawing btw, great dynamic pose…
Been working on it all day today, redrawing every character in the scene. There are still loads of issues but I’ll just let it be for now and continue tomorrow.
Issues:
head and left arm of Deimos
victim of Deimos
head of dead man too small
arms of left woman
head of right woman too small
reference used from Rubens
for the dead man: Drawing called “Abel slain by Kain after Michiel Coxcie” from a book published by “Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten” in Antwerp in 1977.
for the women:http://www.wga.hu/art/r/rubens/40histor/02medici.jpg
for the poses of the soldiers I used various Rubens paintings and did a google search for greek armor
for Deimos and his victim I referred to a piece of Rubens called “Achilles doodt Hector” from the same book mentioned above.
Hopefully I’ll fix the issues soon but my eyes and hand need a rest now.
Ciao for now…
SpiritDreamer: I think you will find it helpful to build your basic geometry in a different application as opposed to sculpting it entirely in Zbrush. It’s especially important to keep subdividing portions of your mesh properly while working from the basic Zbrush geometry. Otherwise, you will continue to get portions of your mesh which are messy and unworkable, and other parts with a scary polygon count.
