[Mergatroid]

Damn, you are a badass!!! Looks great.


Late,


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[Rinaldo]

Way too nice. you are like the Zen master of rocks.

Technicaly fantastic while being imaginative and very well expressed.

Need I add the generic "I like it"

[BooMSticK]

WoW Loki!

This one rocks! (pun intended) Seriously, this is a really nice piece. I would love to be able to outdoor scenes this good. Just GREAT!

,Boom

[Dean Welsh]

Ho Hum... another crashed zeplin in a canyon...

Ha ha Just kidding Loki.

I hope one day I have enough understanding of the world that I can reach into my head/ass and pull out something as natural looking.

Keep it up.

[Leo]

Nah compo is great! Everything are nice and crisp: textures, shadows, lighting, rendering etc. reminds me watercolors or acryls. Kewl job man! Now you need to hire a kick-ass band of 3D artists, animators, matter painters, sound makers, maybe actors and start to make a LODGE MOVIE!!

Bah nobody post sketches yet, nobody can't rePaint yours imagination Loki . What do you like to see? A Lodge world from another perspective?

[silber]

woW
man doing all this rocks....
I would end up in suicide
how long did it take you?
great work


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[FatPenguin]

this is fantastic!

what's more impressive than the straight quality of the image, is that it's very difficult to look at without creating a little story to go with it. This is true with all your lodge paintings.

more!

[surferboi]

i agree with everyone else on this picture, its truly great

[Transcendence]

wow. wonderful job Loki.

[Loki]

wow ... (good morning, btw) so much good feedback! glad you doodz like it so much!

For the rock - I basically used the rough brushstrokes as a guide for the rockformations. The trick is the appropriate shading. Rock has got a very defined volume, a very definite shape. Once you've got that, you can slap some textures over it.

here's a prelim step:



I just roughed it out here. I didn't plan to put the crashed airship in from the beginning - I just felt like painting another canyon (ahem!).
I've got one rust-texture I use for EVERYTHING! It's a very random texture and ideal to make things dirty, or to break up a rock-surface ...

I took my sweet time with this painting. I nibbled at it from time to time - I think I started it like 2 months ago, and just continued every once in a while.

Those clouds - yeah, I know ... argh ... too lazy - we'll see.

Big thanks to all of you for yer inputz!

Kisses

Loki

[ceenda]

Loki: okay, I'm gonna bore people with this again... but could you tell us a little bit about how you go about putting the atmospherics in your pics (i.e. the haze). Did you complete the rock details first and then go in with lassoo and airbrush or did you do it another way?

[Loki]

ceenda - I didn't use one mask for this image. It all comes together while painting - the athmosphere I mean. If you look at the prelim step, there's already some athmosphere in there - I just tighten it up and add to it. The lightbeam cutting through helps a lot too - I used it to get a bigger space in the image and also to guide the looks to the airship.

I took more time with this one, because I wanted to make a more finished image, because usually I do quickies.

[Axl]

Damn, that is good.
I know you said the shaft of light wasn't planned but to me it does two things.
Firstly and most obviously it draws your attention to the wreck at the bottom of the canyon. And then my eyes move up the sunlit side of the canyon to the tiny figures on the pass.
Nice work.