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Ok, this was a long way to go through, but at least I think this was the result that I wanted in first place and I learned a couple of things while doing this in order to apply it in future works. I hope you like it :D
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In fact that was done because I didn't want the left side characters fighting for the eye attention with the right side characters, and then I left them less rendered and more like a huge mass of meat. However, it is maybe true that I overdid that and make the composition harder too see than they should be even if I want them less rendered.I'll keep practicing this kind of composition and make more studies of some old masters in order to make better ones in the future :D
Kind of makes me think of Rembrandt's Belshezzar's Feast painting.
Or, sort of like that, and in a depiction of The Wild Hunt or something like that. Some kind of feral symbol of panic coming to someone in a trance/dream.
The lack of clarity as to whether this figure is dying and going to be taken along for the ride and it's coming toward him-- or if it's riding away-- makes it all the more unsettling to see.
Or, sort of like that, and in a depiction of The Wild Hunt or something like that. Some kind of feral symbol of panic coming to someone in a trance/dream.
The lack of clarity as to whether this figure is dying and going to be taken along for the ride and it's coming toward him-- or if it's riding away-- makes it all the more unsettling to see.
Oh! Thanks! That´s a really nice and warm comment.
The whole world around Rembrandt and Goya fascinates me really deeply, and yeah I recognice that painting for sure!, the expression of the king Belshazzar is just amazing and so real..
My main source of inspiration for the stampede were in fact videos of explosions, seeing how the cloud of them works was the best resource to make the flow and relationship of the mass characters and in the other hand I had the Witches Sabbath from Goya in my mind (this version: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5f/Francisco_de_Goya_y_Lucientes_-_Witches'_Sabbath_(The_Great_He-Goat).jpg ) for create all those characters aswell, I love how Goya paint backgrounds characters.
The whole world around Rembrandt and Goya fascinates me really deeply, and yeah I recognice that painting for sure!, the expression of the king Belshazzar is just amazing and so real..
My main source of inspiration for the stampede were in fact videos of explosions, seeing how the cloud of them works was the best resource to make the flow and relationship of the mass characters and in the other hand I had the Witches Sabbath from Goya in my mind (this version: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5f/Francisco_de_Goya_y_Lucientes_-_Witches'_Sabbath_(The_Great_He-Goat).jpg ) for create all those characters aswell, I love how Goya paint backgrounds characters.
Oh shit, Goya! Of course it's Goya. There was another artist on the tip of my tongue I thought of seeing this, and it was Goya. The omnipresent sense of dread and horror is certainly there. Maybe not his intensely wacky sense of horror-- a little more actual horror here, and a lot fewer owls.
The studying of explosions really does show-- for a moment I honestly was wondering if the faces/bodies I saw in the stampede was just pareidolia in a cloud of smoke.
The studying of explosions really does show-- for a moment I honestly was wondering if the faces/bodies I saw in the stampede was just pareidolia in a cloud of smoke.
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