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Submitted: May 28, 2012
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Resolution: 1100×782
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Perchby `CrimsonMagpie

Traditional Art / Paintings / Fantasy

This, like First Contact, is something I started last year whilst in college, abandoned due to lack of time, and finished recently.

This one was started last summer, as part of my Nugaton project, and for now is the last image I created for it. Unlike previous images in the series, this one shows the upper levels of the sprawling post-apocalyptic Gothic-flavour metropolis. Whereas the denizens of the lower levels subsist in perpetual artificially lit gloom, retaining a high level of warped technology with which they cyberise themselves, the inhabitants of the spire levels live much more primitively now, in an environment akin to an endless jungle of stone and metal, vast in scale, and deadly to match. Nomadic wanderers, like this girl here, have to be aware of any sign of trouble nearby in a world where the only escape from danger is often in a downward direction....

I wanted to paint something gloomily moody, with the huge buildings of Nugator looming out of the mist and rain, something in the tradition of the subdued grandeur of Alan Lee's the Lord of the Rings artwork, partly in a nod to one of my biggest influences. I also tried for something more commercial here, and designed this to fit the dimensions of a book cover. Notice how the main subject is on the right, and how the spire with the crow is exactly in the middle, to fit on the spine of the book.

I spent some time trying to come up with a simple and slightly disturbing shape for the gargoyles. Something that looked a little futuristic and not clichéd monsters. I'm quite pleased with the result.

I also realised when painting this that it's the first real cityscape I've ever done.

Acrylics on paper, 42 x 60cm

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~meanus Apr 26, 2013

this one is cool

`CrimsonMagpie Apr 27, 2013 Professional Traditional Artist

Thank-you, glad you like it.

~draumstafur Jul 22, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

awesome landscape, very gloomy and ominious.

`CrimsonMagpie Jul 24, 2012 Professional Traditional Artist

Thanks, gloomy is fun to paint!

~skulkey Jul 1, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

this one is really up my alley. pretty much everything about it speaks to me.

`CrimsonMagpie Sep 14, 2012 Professional Traditional Artist

You mean right up your rooftop?

Thanks dude!

~CrunchBandicoot Jun 19, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

Aside from the great details of the woman, the perch, the visible buildings/bridges and the building outlines, I really like the faded look, which is actually sheets of rain.

`CrimsonMagpie Sep 18, 2012 Professional Traditional Artist

Thanks, getting the rain right was a bit of a bugger, but I'm glad you think it looks good.

~squeekaboo Jun 18, 2012

Excellent environment.

`CrimsonMagpie Jun 19, 2012 Professional Traditional Artist

Thanks, I hope to be able to expand upon it in the future.

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