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This piece was inspired by a blue on black (pencil) drawing I did that featured the character. This developed into the concept of 'the moonlight encounter'. The story:
Wandering on a moonlit night somewhere in 'the east' you come across a temple complex. The moonlight becomes more intens and seems to 'activate' you and your surroundings. As you approach the temple 'an ancient warrior' suddenly appears in front of you. "Who is he? Is he friend or foe? What's real and what's not...?"

The architecture is inspired by Indo-Chinese/Cambodian/Thai architecture. The character is mainly chinese; Qin/Xian dynasty. My aim was to create and accentuate the feeling of the warrior suddenly appearing by directing focus and to really nail the feel of moonlit, 'magic', scene by playing with texture, detail and HDR type effects.

I'll post a WIP later.
cYa]]> Tue, 25 Nov 2008 00:00:59 +0000 http://indigodragon.cgsociety.org/gallery/689012

This is a painting (/poster) I did to illustrate one of my poems.
The raven is also one of my favorite animals and I wanted to capture the 'steely' black shine of its feathers and their different 'contours'. And ofcourse its majestic beak and claws.

This work is part of a personal project to illustrate my poems and will ultimately be printed, either as posters or in book form.

It was a good exercise in texturing (feathers, beak, feet/claws) and balancing the layout between the 'painting' and the 'text'.

Hope ye like it. cYa]]> Sun, 26 Oct 2008 14:21:07 +0000 http://indigodragon.cgsociety.org/gallery/685676

"The Doc is Back", tribute to an 80's classic.

This is my first posting on CGSociety and my first completed 'digital painting'. I came up with the idea because of a (rough and unfinished) drawing I once made of 'an old man on a glider’. (I will post the wip later in the wip-section.) He reminded me of ‘the doc’ from “Back to the Future” (Christopher Lloyd). So, one of the paintings I started with was the idea of “The Doc is Back”.

Some goals I set for this painting: hone my color skills, keeping the 'painted poster' look, integrate it into a 'movie poster design',

I used a movie still for reference for the doc's face. (I will post that as well.) I also wanted to practice my portrait skills after seeing some amazing paintings by Nicco di Mattia.

Hope you like it.]]> Thu, 16 Oct 2008 17:03:14 +0000