Uplift Universe - Image Entry: Kieran Farnan

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Kieran Farnan is entered in the “Uplift Universe Challenge” update: View Challenge Page

Latest Update: Final Image: Gathering Of Cousins

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I have finally had time to start this challenge. I first spent time reading the books and then family stuff came up. I enjoyed the books so I’m doing a scene from the book “the uplift war” where Clennie runs into a human child, a gorilla and a mother neo-chimp.

Thats it for the intro, good luck everyone

#3

Start of sketch

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ok next I’m going to work on the background.

#5

Hey Kieran, nice concept and sketches :slight_smile: I think your characters are a bit separate, and the image lose a bit on interest. Maybe you need to move the neo chimp mother to de left beside the gorilla, and move the human to the right ( his hand nearly touching the kid on the gorilla arms) and reduce the wide of your canvas, only a comment :slight_smile: Good luck with your entry!! Cheers mate !! :beer:

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Thanks for comment Ferx you were right so I moved the gorilla closer to the chimp and I reduced the width abit I think it looks better now.

#7

Made some changes, I like it better now. Anyway I got to speed things up time is running out.

#8

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#9

Just testing some colours to see what works

#10

Hey Kieran, really looking good the new composition :smiley: The concept gains a lot of focus, well done! :slight_smile: The color test look good, perhaps the trees a bit a more grey , grey-green, only a comment :slight_smile: Nice work and waiting for more updates. Cheers mate !! :beer:

#11

The first of what I hope will be regular updates for the final week. Did some work on the background and started to begin some details

Thanks for the comment Ferx good advice again

#12

Here’s todays update should have another one tomorrow.
Good luck to everybody who hasn’t finished yet, we can do it.

#13

Here’s todays update still have quite a bit to do but I’m hoping to be finished Friday night.

#14

inspired by “Uplift War”, a book by David Brin

Story quoted From th book “Uplift War”
[ Closest to the trunk of that tree sat an adult female neo-chimpanzee—a “chimmie”—dressed only in shorts, holding a chim baby in her arms. The little mother’s brown eyes were wide with fear. Next to them was a small, smooth-skinned human child dressed in denim overalls. The little blond girl smiled back at Athaclena, shyly. ]

[ For while the fourth creature across from her looked, at first, like a very large chimpanzee, her corona was telling quite another story. It cannot be! Calmly, placidly, the brown eyes looked back at her. The being obviously far outweighed all the others combined, yet it held the human child on its lap delicately, carefully. When the little girl squirmed, the big creature merely snorted and shifted slightly, neither letting go nor taking its gaze from Athaclena. Unlike normal chimpanzees, its face was very black. Ignoring her aches, Athaclena edged forward slowly so as not to alarm them. “Hello,” she said carefully in Anglic. ]

#15

Ok that’s my final image I’m new to digital painting and learned a lot by making this,
anyway hope you like it and good luck

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