You have an excellent hold of depthness, thanks to those blurry, foggy backgrounds of yours - something rarely seen in digitalart.

What program do you use? Also, to obtain this kind of varying lines, you surely use a pen and tablet, amirite?

Painter X, and yes :).

green fire is green

Wow! beautiful work, man.

The props are much appreciated, but i'm the last person you'd ask advice on completion.
I can't even finish my cereal, let alone a drawing :/

I actually don't recall saying much about completing this'n.
but thanks agian, yo!!

Man, this is miles better!

The composition is really working well, and the figure is the center of attention instead of being lost. I like the touches of the light, the reflection, the candle, the sun under the arch.

I can't help seeing this as a match with the pic you did of S'kei in the cave - the future of our characters...

Hmmm...I totally need to draw their grown-up versions locked in epic struggle. On top of a tall building above a burning city or something, ideally.

TO THE DRAWMOBILE! *disappears in swish of cape*

*Slides down the DRAWPOLE, emerging in his Snake Boy Wonder uniform, with cape and teeny tight shorts*

"Vho are you and *vhat* are you doink in my secret lair?!"

Uh...*clears throat* I'm your sidekick, Herr Doktor!

*smiles hopefully*

*Admires the shape of your skull, leaning uncomfortably close*

"Vell, vell, vhat an *interesting* specimen..."

*adjusts rubber gloves*

*Looks at rubber gloves with a pained expression*

Aw, c'mon Doc - I -really- hate that!

"Ve all haff to make sacrifices in ze name of SCIENCE, son."

Science.... *grin*

Aah that picture up there is so old D:

I like...science

I love science whe rubber gloves and painful expressions come into play :D

Wait, are you implying there are other kinds of science? o.o

Yeah.
American scientists, for example, just found out you can talk with the dead.
They just don#t answer, but they're working on that.

I can't see a thing wrong with this. I love how it focuses in on the character.

F27 gave you excellent advice, and the results look good!

Although I miss the open space and distances of the original, this "enclosed" version has a much stronger composition: I like especially the broken arches that point towards the wanderer.

[Of course, that could never happen: arches hold themselves in place, and unsupported keystones would never hang in midair like that -- unless magic were involved. ]

Thank you for completing this!



Mark

I know that arches don't stay up that way in real life - it's why I put them in, in fact :)
I doodled them in at some point and looking at them made me feel a little uneasy for just that reason, which I thought was the perfect mood for the picture, so I left them in...

I beg to differ on the plausibility of the arches. I've seen photographs of remains of arches that looked like that and were still standing. It depends on what type of stone is used and the strength of the solution used to hold the segments together. In most cases, it wouldn't stand, but it is technically possible.

Interesting! I'll have to look into that. Thanks for letting me know!


Mark

You're welcome. I'm sorta interested in both engineering and architecture. I'm no expert, but the if the stone of the arch is light and the adhesive is strong, the remaining segments will stand. Well, providing there aren't too many on the unsupported side. If that side had even one more stone, it would almost definitely collapse.

OKAY, NEW LORE: IN THE COMMONWEALTH, SUPERGLUE WAS FREQUENTLY USED IN PLACE OF MORTAR THROUGHOUT THE MIDDLE AGES >:P

The glowyness does that, I think :) Those games are both pretty HDR-heavy.

woah.. this is absolutely beautiful.. i love your attention to detail on the background. it's seriously beautiful

Such gray and silent.
You know, I dream to draw pictures like this one. :)

The environment reminds me of when I used to play World of Warcraft, but in a good way.

The art is, of course, fucking incredible.

Aww, thanks a lot! As much as WoW as a game annoys me, my stuff being compared to its awesome environmental design is very, very flattering :D

Ooh, love the background and the houses.
Gray <3

Cool hybrid-looking architecture. I like the washed out tone and value, with the bright green lights.

Thank you very much! You're too kind.

I only wish I had the confidence and patience to start a similarly big project these days :'S