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Always had a fascination with to out-of-the-way country taverns and inns. Must mean something important happened to me in one in a previous life.
Worked on this picture off and on for about five months, which obviously means that I have fun doing it. Used a combination of Painter X, Photoshop 6 and Me to create this.
Inspired by Caravaggio’s “Bacchus”.
Worked on this picture off and on for about five months, which obviously means that I have fun doing it. Used a combination of Painter X, Photoshop 6 and Me to create this.
Inspired by Caravaggio’s “Bacchus”.
Category All / General Furry Art
Species Lion
Size 581 x 800px
File Size 93.2 kB
Painter X allows one to digitally “paint” pictures as if one actually was using brush and the colors being put down act very much like oils being applied to canvas.
I used to paint with oils many years ago and really enjoy getting back into “painting” this way. So unless I do one of my more cartoony pictures I will be using this Painter X painting technique more and more in the future instead of relying entirely on Photoshop.
I used to paint with oils many years ago and really enjoy getting back into “painting” this way. So unless I do one of my more cartoony pictures I will be using this Painter X painting technique more and more in the future instead of relying entirely on Photoshop.
Though the man has been dead for a couple hundred years, I am a big fan of his works, finding his use of light and everyday interpretation of classical/biblical subjects fascinating.
This particular work by him was the source of my furry version:
http://www.douban.com/note/72663456/
This particular work by him was the source of my furry version:
http://www.douban.com/note/72663456/
Ahh, the vintages to be sampled in a chanced upon off-to-the-side country tavern amidst the evening vineyards are varied, good bear … But be wary of imbibing them too freely. In the flickering ruddy glow from the fireplace, you might find your journey being pleasantly diverted to places of heady dreams and languorous fantasies.
*nods*
I deeply appreciate you telling why you faved this work, Serath.
A fave is always appreciated, but a fave with an accompanying comment like yours tells an artist if he is hitting his intended target - or even coming close to affecting his audience. A picture should affect its audience rather than just be an accurate representation.
Capturing the boy’s relaxed and care-free fun expression was part of my goal for this pic.
I deeply appreciate you telling why you faved this work, Serath.
A fave is always appreciated, but a fave with an accompanying comment like yours tells an artist if he is hitting his intended target - or even coming close to affecting his audience. A picture should affect its audience rather than just be an accurate representation.
Capturing the boy’s relaxed and care-free fun expression was part of my goal for this pic.
That's why I always try to leave a constructive comment, because I love getting 'em. And I can now happily add to it. He just instantly comes across as a young lion of no particular persuasion, who is always hanging out at the tavern, for the companionship, and to listen in on all the stories the other patrons care to tell. And just maybe, someday, he'll have an adventure of his own, to regale everyone with.
Mount Olympus is/was very much like a deity high school with it’s jocks, geeks and it’s shunned “left-over people” who got stuck with all the dirty jobs. But for all its apparent faults, Olympus was one of the places where furries were well represented (Pan, Chiron, etc.) and so it wasn't that bad.
This was a piece that I only worked on when I felt “inspired” or was in a “taverny” mood.
The big fireplace in the back of the common room is past it’s peak, the two logs have long since burnt through, producing only a low flame whose flicking light rounds off the shapes in the room like time & weather smooth away the sharp features of statues.
The noisy customers are gone. Either having long since passed out at their tables from too much drink or gone off into the night on missions best not inquired about. A comfortable time of night as drink and the moving reddish yellow light from the fireplace beguiles the mind into wandering without goals and seduces the problems of the day to sleep.
The big fireplace in the back of the common room is past it’s peak, the two logs have long since burnt through, producing only a low flame whose flicking light rounds off the shapes in the room like time & weather smooth away the sharp features of statues.
The noisy customers are gone. Either having long since passed out at their tables from too much drink or gone off into the night on missions best not inquired about. A comfortable time of night as drink and the moving reddish yellow light from the fireplace beguiles the mind into wandering without goals and seduces the problems of the day to sleep.
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