Idyllicism

Part of me is going ":I pfft, this doesn't need a mature warning" but another part of my is going "... WTH, yes it does". So, on it gooooes, for safety. It's just a little mild gore, nothing too bad. I think. Being a horror writer/artist can mess with your perspective of these things |D

"Dichotomy" is a favorite word of mine right now. I think there's some of it in this picture. Can you find it? 8D

So, argle, this monster is finally done. Been working on this thing to add to my portfolio for pretty much all of break. I think a nice long term goal would be to learn to paint like this WITHOUT it taking this long (I know it's possible, I know people who can do it. You know who you are!)

There's a few issues in terms of perspective (Enemy mine, I will conquer you another day!) that arose from this being just a sketch that I then realized I wanted to make into a full painting. I tend to have perspective issues most when I don't design the background first, but even with those, I think I managed to merge the character into it fairly well.
There's a couple other things I think I'd do differently if I went back and did this again, such as the composition, the way I worked the layers, etc.
But overall, I am still damn thrilled with this piece. It's one of my first pieces I tried to seriously include texture in and has much more dramatic and environment related lighting than past pieces I've done. It was actually really, insanely fun.

So, 1 more portfolio piece down, as much more as I can do before the deadline to go~!

Character design and image (c) 2008-2010 The-Alchemists-Muse