Daius - One with the sun

Posted Dec 21, 2020, 6:49:23 AM UTC

Final tribute of Daius for A-Ziz. Maleficent is guiding him, albeit suspiciuos of A-Ziz' intense enthrallment with the deity Daius. The deity's light dims her own glowy markings given by Nokt and envy is bubbling up in her chest. The love between A-Ziz and Maleficent is extremely volatile and intense and a rein of fear holds those who live close by.

I honestly dislike how the mountains turned out but I'm almost never happy with that. I should definitely star looking and working with refs because rock texture is ridiculously difficult to get right. Overall though I'm happy with this, especially the composition. At some point I'll learn how to do backlight through feathers and show the transparency, i tried here but it looks so terrible i removed it.

Featuring

-Maleficent

-A-Ziz

-for now peaceful valley

Maleficent

Fullbody +5

Colored +4

Shaded +4

Background +5

Personal Art +3

Total AP: 21

A-Ziz:

Fullbody +5

Colored +4

Shaded +4

Background +5

Tribute +4

Personal Art +3

Total AP: 25

Comments

Rilameth
Dec 23, 2020, 7:50:23 AM UTC
Beautiful work~ I love the composition, and how you have one of them positioned just on the edge of a dive with their head just starting to eclipse the sun. Very lovely 'moment in time' capture.

I quite like the mountains, due to their distance from the viewer you won't really see much rock texture detail anyway (though I agree, rock texture and mountains in general are just hard).

Most of the work with mountains, from what I've seen, is the different plays of rock and snow and distance perception. Along with the play of light on all the cliff faces and otherwise uneven terrain. Defining the treeline a bit (where it would be visible) might also help, depending on how much detail you want to go with.

Sorry for being such a yatter. X'D
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