I dont usually like showing my work, but I do like showing how it works..

This time, I'm agonizing over how high or low to put the horizon-line. It'll say a lot and really change the sense of how much the world wraps around the subject.. Ever notice how if you lay flat on a lawn, you can see 360 degrees? Same issue.

Right now it looks like a looong focal length, and I don't like it. so I redrew one arm, may have gone too much there. But I think it means the background needs to shrink a bit.

Scaling shit is tough when you have no reference. That's part of why I flipped the image.. to see the proportional problems. He was a bit wall-eyed. Also this flip fits the geography of the actual place better.

The mountain is hard because it's so large that it never looks that aggressive.. but when you look at it with binoculars, or zoom in on a photograph.. you can see that it's more than a lump.. it's a 14,000 foot batholith, the face of which is large enough to contain a few small towns. Conveying that scale, without filling the canvas is really hard...

The trick is to set the horizon line low enough to make things loom over the eye-point, but low enough to make Mr. Coyote seem on top of the Ute world.