HOME | DD
noahbradley — The End of Sorrow
Published: 2010-09-15 14:14:32 +0000 UTC; Views: 57258; Favourites: 1422; Downloads: 2097
Redirect to original
Description
Based loosely on a speedpaint I did over a year ago that I liked the general concept of. Trying to build my portfolio up a bit.Related content
Comments: 41
Wow, strange feelings in this one! An amalgam of Satanic and Christian imagery. this is beautifully executed but there's something slightly chilling about the temple on the island, even though it is a gate to the light. This is interesting.
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
fascinating and somehow irritating (after all it's just a big fat block, alright? but looks quite devil 
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
as soon as we start terraforming mars i'm gonna make shit like this all over the place
👍: 0 ⏩: 2
So - as we move to other places and leave all the stuff back - an alien species comes around and thinks "what the actual hell?!"
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
Want me to help you? I think I have a shovel and a pickaxe somewhere around..
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
Yeah,we got this.Just need to figure out carve those clouds into the sky.
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
I love landascapes that make me want to write their stories...
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
Hi Noah Bradley. Have you ever written a story to these pictures?
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
You know more about this topic meanwhile?
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
Are you interested in a book cover commission?
I am going to need a complete cover with image, fonts, ornaments and a piece of jewellery. The format is the entire book jacket with front, spine and back. The exact measurements are still to be decided as they depend on the layout and resulting page numbers and paper thickness for the print edition. For the ebook the front should be enough.
Please look at my DA page and the book cover that I have uploaded there and let me know whether you can create something similar.
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
Hello!
I have an honor to say that Your work has been featured in the [link] !
Have a nice day!
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
This is breathtaking. I wish a place like this existed.
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
Great scenery concept!!! I liked a lot the depth sensation
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
this would look good in most peoples portfolio, i never really go back to anything i've done a while ago, oh well
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
It's like some kind of dramatic biblical scene. Love the clouds
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
That lighting through the clouds hit me hard.
Amazing again, Noah.
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
I always love your gorgeous landscapes; you've got such a gift (and skills) for these!
But if this is going to be a portfolio piece, I've got a few suggestions if you want them.
1. I'd reverse the pic so the pilgrims are on the left. I didn't even notice them until my fifth or sixth look because they aren't in a narrative position. Most of us learned to read from left to right, so (all things being equal) we notice things on the left first, and we read meaning from left to right too. With the pilgrims on the left, this picture would be "Dark journey reaches its bright end," rather than the more static "Glorious wonder happens to have some unimportant/unlit observers."
2. Make it clear what the island's green base is. Trees? Rock? Billowing water or smoke? Chopped lime jello? 
3. Similarly, the intersection of light, clouds, and cliffs isn't clear enough at first or second glance. I'm guessing this is "Sunlight shining through a hole in the cloud" rather than "Sunlight shining into this enormous cave," "Dimensional gate opens behind stone," or even "wispy glowing centipede rears up behind island,"
I think this confusion comes from just two elements: the sky-blue patches in the clouds, and the confusing border between cliff and sky.
The blue patches look enough like open sky that we can see the darker and lighter streaks in it as wisps of high fog, rather than heavy clouds with no gaps except the one place the sun comes through. And if this is mostly open sky with a bit of fog, then the whole glowing area on the right is too big and solid to just be sunlight. Does that make sense?
And once we're not quite sure what's going on with the sky, the left and right sides of the pic don't quite resolve into one answer. On the right, cliffs and clouds merge with no clear separation, so it could be one solid material like a bumpy sinkhole into a cave. But on the left, where we can clearly separate cliff from cloud, the upward arcs of reflected light on both are similar enough that IF we see the sky as blue-with-fog wisps instead of solid cloud, then those arcs of light are too BRIGHT to be reflections, and therefore look like something separate--lightning, or a power aura streaming upward along the whole side of the island&tower, or even spectral insect legs.
Anyway, sorry it takes so many words just to make a few suggestions--move the pilgrims and clarify the surface of the island and the relationship between cliffs, clouds, and open sky. Oh, well.
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
amazing work. I love combination of blue and green on this picture.
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
That is awesome man, Looks like a gate to somewhere. Perhaps those peeps were journeying to this place..?
Very nice man
👍: 0 ⏩: 0