I think this is my best matte painting to date - it's a scene from my story (of course). The colors and the composition worked out pretty well I think - and it gave me a chance to noodle in tons of detail which I always love to do. The concept of this world is pretty fascinating - it was founded by a conclave of wealthy merchants who figured they could make themselves royalty and import their own working peasant class. They live in the upper crust of the planet (the city seen at the top) while the people they brought in from the prisons, orphanages, and poor houses of other worlds live on the surface below. Looming 'guardians' keep any thoughts of rebellion in check, and the peasantry keep themselves busy providing food and raw materials to the nobles above. When the main characters arrive on this world in my story, the planet has been populated for about 2500 years.
11 comments:
Jon, this is absolutly beautiful!! How many hours did you put into it?
This one took me a while - I'd guess probably 20-30 hours. The original is about 3 times bigger than the one I uploaded - and you can keep zooming in to see all the crazy detail on everything. One of my biggest weaknesses is that i love to zoom in (because i can) on a digital painting, noodle a bunch of detail, and ignore the bigger picture until it's too late. I think i lucked out in that this one still holds up from a distance
I love this painting. The detailing on it is absolutely exquisite. I think that you need to send me your story, just the blip about it here under the picture has me intrigued.
/cheer!
Jon's on blogspot finally!! YAAAAYYY! This painting is amazing. My favorite of yours by far. Keep up the great work, my fellow generalist!
BEauty! Jon has joined the blog. Sounds kind of like the blob, and I guess it kind of is. You have mad skills in digital painting. I will enjoy comming to your blog. With your tallent, you should also post a monster on fistacuffs.blogspot.com
this website is awsome. Tyler and I will both have a character in in it on the next fight.
Thanks for making a blog. I like to see what kind of stuff your worken on.
Thanks for the comments guys! If you get a chance - go to my maquette blog (the link is on the side...) there's a couple new ones and I'd like to get your opinions.
Wow...is there a way I could import your years of experience with Painter straight into my brain, ala Matrix-style?
I think it's a great idea, but i think it's lacking a sense of drama that it could otherwise have.... check out Craig Mullins work.
slick man!! looks good.
Like Jed stated, I think it's lacking something...I don't know a bunch but maybe if there was a focal point, right now my eye just wanderd everywher(maybe thats what you were going for)
hey! your stuff is freaking amazing! I looove it! the lighting and the details in them are gorgeous! Dude, you rock!
hey all dat's r great work.
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