I just got a tablet PC, so I'm posting up the first thing that I thought decent enough to save. So, here it is.A little bit about this concept work. I read in a magazine about fantasy art, that a way to make things look super fantastic is to put a person in there. Of course, it helps to keep track of the size of objects when you have something so familiar, like a person.
But then, I thought, it's more than that. By putting a bunch of humans in a setting, it shows humans as a collective, moving through the world like ants, with little on their minds, just paying attention to what needs to be done. If there's just a few people, it has the feeling of enjoying the fantastic worlds together--intimacy. But if there's just one, it has the emotion of raw loneliness. The lone adventurer, the scholar, trying to make sense of things in a world too fantastic and large to understand. And as lonely as it is, it's beautiful--to be confused, unable to comprehend the majesty of a vast, unimaginable world.
Funny how emotions sometimes get sucked into art.
3 comments:
Nice, glad to see we're all finally posting again.
I like your colors in this picture, I wouldn't have thought to use yellow for the sky but it works really well.
oh! my roommate has a tablet- those things are so freaking cool! much like your musings on the quantities of humans and its deeper philosophical meaning. :)
yay! we're posting! thanks guys!
my musings were cool? oooo thankies. :-)
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