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Mindsiphon · Posted: Mon Oct 07, 2002 4:06 am

Haven't done a landscape pic in quite awhile. Did this one this weekend.

deleuran · Posted: Mon Oct 07, 2002 4:24 am

One word... OMFG!
hehe j/k, i love the detail in the pic, and the colors are just great! Maybe you should try to make some more jungle things in the "cave" or what it is, i don't like that it's just plane dark.
Overall brilliant work, keep it up!

Hunago · Posted: Mon Oct 07, 2002 5:12 am

Sweet one, I love the mood in this pic. The texture and details are primo. post more plz

Ravaran · Posted: Mon Oct 07, 2002 8:02 am

What a wonderful mood you've discovered! I kinda like the fact that it's completely dark inside the cavey-ness. Gives it more contrast, I guess. Nicely done, yo. Keep it comin'!

ChiaNi · Posted: Mon Oct 07, 2002 8:19 am

wonderful picture. My jaw fall on the floor.

Aloys · Posted: Mon Oct 07, 2002 8:23 am

Wow! I like this. especially the water and the trees are very well done. the darkness in the cave is very good. It looks like it's a very deep cave.

Aloys

Max · Posted: Mon Oct 07, 2002 8:50 am

Truly AWESOME....

Lightning = perfect

Germ01 · Posted: Mon Oct 07, 2002 1:13 pm

Great piece! Its just missing something, it needs something to focus on, something subtle like a very small colorful bird in one of the corners. As it is you don't know where to look. The eye wanders to much. Anyways, just my 2 cents. Awesome pic!

Merystic · Posted: Mon Oct 07, 2002 1:30 pm

WOW
I have no crits...just...WOW...that's beautiful

-HoodZ- · Posted: Mon Oct 07, 2002 1:58 pm

loverly

Mindsiphon · Posted: Mon Oct 07, 2002 7:24 pm

deleuran: Thanks! This was meant to be a backdrop for a pic I'm working on but I decided on a different setting and instead left this as is.

el scoono: Thanks! Yes I looked at ref for this one. I need to do that more often!

Germ01: Thanks!
I was thinking some sort of creature emerging from the water or some explorers entering/exiting the cave. Maybe I will revisit it and do just that.

Hunago,Ravaran,ChiaNi,Aloys,Max,Merystic,HoodZ: Thanks!

If you are interested in how I did it here are some saved steps.
Steps

el scoono · member Member # Joined: 17 Jan 2002 Posts: 155

Amazing work! It looks very real. I feel like I could walk right into that cave. Did you use any ref?

Max · Posted: Tue Oct 08, 2002 5:12 am

thant was very interesting - thank's for the steps

Hyptosis · member Member # Joined: 24 Jan 2002 Posts: 507

Thanks for the steps, good master.

ken · Posted: Tue Oct 08, 2002 9:29 am

nice work. would look even better with a dragon barely visible in the darkness, with glowing eyes...

-Ken

Mindsiphon · Posted: Tue Oct 08, 2002 5:18 pm

Max Kulich: No prob!

Hyptosis: Glad you like the steps!

ken: I thought about doing something like that but decided to keep it a landscape piece only as I don't have any landsape pieces on my site.

Ryknow: Glad you like the water.
I just used a large soft brush at 100% opacity to put down the water color and a very small hard brush for the small highlights.

cptoonz · Posted: Tue Oct 08, 2002 5:22 pm

Hi, mindsiphon

This looks great. In particular, I like the cave, cliffs, and the way the sun is catching the leaves. I am not quite sure what the white stuff is in the middle of the pic...are those rapids? A water fall? It just seems a little unclear to me with the way everything else in the image is clear and well rendered. Anway, great job

Mindsiphon · Posted: Tue Oct 08, 2002 5:31 pm

Thanks cptoonz! The white part is supposed something like sunbleached rock.

Ryknow · Posted: Tue Oct 08, 2002 11:28 pm

Wow love the texture on the water did you use all photoshop? if so could you consider puttin up a tutorial on water that seems to be where i have alot of difficulties