Two more!
Berlin has many large parks, so large that you can almost get lost in them. There's one next to where I live, and I walked for two and a half hour in fast pace. Didn't even see all of it in that time. It was really nice, parts were dark and overgrown, parts were forest, other parts were just the softest sunbathing lawns as far as the eye can see, there's little lakes and meadows and viaducts, all in the middle of the city. Got the artistic juices flowing again.
When I was done with it after ca. 3-4 hours, I kinda liked how it turned out, and that's rare for me. Then I noticed that without wanting it, I actually obeyed the Rule of Thirds! Ooooh, I feel like a real artist now. X) I accidentally used composition.
See?
Almost worked horizontally as well... well, nearly, if you squint.
A thing that I wanted to do is use the diagonals. Whenever I can ass myself to do a piece with a background, I try to put emphasis on the left diagonal. This is because my sketches tend to be slanted towards the right top corner, or at least, used to before I began working on it. In this picture, the neck and head of the creature follow the left diagonal, and the slope of the background should have. Derpy as I am, I managed to emphasize the right diagonal just as much, sabotaging myself. But I hope that the pull of the dragon's face on the eye is stronger.
Color perspective and aerial perspective on the other hand were used deliberately (distance turns blue and lighter, foreground is darkest and warmest).
The other thing was just a mini comic that I put down in a hurry after our last Ahadi roleplaying session. All of these things were said or implied by the characters, if though in a different order. I hope, Sephot's player never leaves the group, his characters are always so utterly feline. What happened was that our group was lost in an abandonned Umbral realm that had belonged to an evil Simba werelion. It had turned into a hellish nightmare land where even the ground under your feet wanted to suck your blood out and where creatures lurked that I couldn't even paint if I tried. In his home, we found at long last what seemed a lot like a magical piece of armor (neck plate). Sephot's the one for evil mysteries in our group, but he didn't even touch that thing, instead trying to convince my character to give it a try. See, if even your group's Bubasti doesn't want to lay a paw on it, take it as a sign that you don't, either.
Ok, bye! ^^
Current mood:
tired