Tuesday, 21 June 2011

Phoenix Rising: Part 1 (thumbnails)

Thumbnails for a new project.

Below is a simple Phoenix in flight in a rainstorm. I later added a stag and cat (or any other creature) for a sense of scale and for some interaction between the two creatures.





Researching on the Internet for bird references I came across images of herons and secretary birds standing on freshly caught prey. The white elegant secretary bird conquering a dark serpent could almost be poetic. Here is the same sort of idea, a radiant Phoenix standing on a defeated dark creature, which in this case was made into a dragon. There is mist in the background to add some mystery.










A low point perspective of a screeching Phoenix on some sort of building/tower, as if summoning the vortex of clouds above. In another thumbnail there is some ivy crawling up the surface to give the building a decaying old look, as if the civilisation that built it has long since perished and this building now only serves as a roost. The third is a bit more destructive, with lightning hitting the tower with plumes of fire coming from within.























A sunset (or sunrise) setting with and without a hunting scene (hey, its that stag again!) On the left cliff are men with horses and dogs chasing the unfortunate deer to make its leap of faith.


Arcanine Speed Paints



Just a few speed paints I did to warm myself up in the mornings. My coffee-arts, if you will.
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Sunday, 19 June 2011

Sugaar

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“In Basque folklore, Sugaar is the flying - but wingless - dragon who lives in underground caverns. It travels through the sky in the shape of a half-moon of fire.”

Well, my dragon may or may not be wingless (depends on how you look at it) but I based the creature design from ray’s, because they (especially the Manta Ray) are half moon shaped. Its also something different. At first the half-moon caused me to create a dragon with a Diplocaulus-like head engulfed in fire.
The woman on the cliff was inspired by Sugaar’s consort, whom I found out about while doing a Wiki-search.