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Published: 2014-08-27 05:20:21 +0000 UTC; Views: 2013; Favourites: 65; Downloads: 0
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You do not know him, you communal people, or you have forgotten him;
Intemperate and savage, the hawk remembers him;
Beautiful and wild, the hawks, and men that are dying, remember him.
-Robinson Jeffers, Hurt Hawks
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This is really pretty! I loved the fight between Aang and Jet on the show.
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That is a ton of pretty fall colors. The red, orange, and yellow looks like it must have taken forever, but with a nice payoff. The little characters in the foreground and background are always awesome. And the way Jet's form is mostly shadow while Aang is hanging out in the light is a nice way to make suggestions of their characters if you know the show. And of course, the tree top town, haha. The trees are so thick, you can't even see the sky.
I'd almost ask what else you had in mind, but these always make for cool surprises.
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I love your comments so much! You pick up on so much of the symbolism and little things. I love doing silhouettes of characters, the dark/light thing in this picture was mostly a convenient accident. I knew that Jet would show up against the leaves, and Aang against the tree. I also liked to have Jet with his back to us, concealment, and Aang facing us head-on (integrity). At first I only had Jet planned out, but towards the end I wanted a counterpoint that he could be "facing". I tossed around the idea of it being Katara or Sokka instead of Aang, as I think this episode was much more about those two. But the way Jet attacked Aang at the end won me over, it really highlighted his character's psychology- I love stuff like that!
And yes.. the leaves took a while. Went through different stages of "cloudyness" and things that looked more like tiling, sliding roofing tiles. Defining leaves in that abstract way is pretty fun.. I think the trickiest part was to make it seem realistic and dream-like at the same time. I had to do a lot of flipping to grayscale... still need to work on value and composition. But, progress.
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