Tepui from a Distance

I getting a better idea of what my first piece is going to look like. The Tepui will be seen from afar, with the expedition on the foreground creating scale. I want to make it really epic to justify prehistoric life surviving on the upper stratum of the plateau. It has too seem inaccessible to the viewer, to have someone watching/playing the end result (film, game, etc) wonder how the expedition is going to access the plateau. Their is a mist surrounding the place, weird shapes which seem to be storks, yet grey and leathery.

My main issue is the perspective and the view. I want it to be more dramatic, with a more drastic angle. I need to do more drawings to find it, using the thumbnails.

So here is some work in progress, made during the photoshop class.  I need to add more detail to enhance scale, which is really a reoccurring problem.

This is one representing a weird foggy river. I still need to add the expedition to show the scale. I want them to be paddling in through the low fog.

The second one still needs a lot of detailing. It needs to be cleaned. I added the characters to try and get scale though they are by no mean final.

When I will include the characters they will be a bit more detailed and have some colour on them, though they will still remain a secondary aspect of the painting and therefore will be more implied than detailed.

Colour Painting

About 45min to an hour of playing around with colour. Started from scratch directly with colour, as I feel I am having real problems with colour.

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Life Drawing Session 2 Novembre 2010

No brief session.

Done with a 4B Pencil

Influence Map

Just pictures of the Tepuis.

Tepui Landscape

Played around with the blur and sharpen to create some depth, added some gradients to create atmosphere, and some pterodactyls for scale.