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FINALLY got this uploaded.
This was my final project for Painting I. What you can't tell from this photo is that it's five feet across. The idea was to work on a big canvas, but instead of using the size to support a larger brushstroke, stick with my usual smallish strokes, pack it with detail, and use the size of the canvas to present an epic sense of scale.
I've been sort of eternally frustrated by the fact that the apparent size of my art is limited by the size of the viewer's monitor (I always end up killing myself over details that aren't even visible at the final resolution), so it was really, really fun to work this way. Kind of ironic and stupid that after all that the only way to show it to the world is on tiny monitors. :/

Oil on canvas, 48"x36" (used an entire freaking tube of Cobalt Blue XD), done in FIVE DAYS and probably 30 hours or so. Honestly I totally lost track; I was working on it between five and nine hours every day, except I let it dry for one. The whole thing culminated in a mind-crushing double all-nighter, in which I worked on it from 2:00-ish until midnight, went home, wrote a program in 10 hours that was supposed to take like three weeks, slept for two hours, turned in said program, attended (and basically slept through) the rest of classes that day, finished classes at 10:00 PM (weird schedule), and then went and painted until 8:00 the next morning. Went home, slept for about four more hours and then came back to the studio for the final review.

WINGS STUFF:
So this is the City of the Fountain: the capital city of the country in which the whole story takes place (WHICH I STILL HAVEN'T NAMED ARGH). The reason it looks like the island exploded out of the ground is because it did. It's a landbreak, which I'm not going to explain because I already did here . The two figures are Eysa and Caiden two of the three main characters. Eysa has red hair now, not that anyone keeps track of these things besides me. XD
I didn't paint their wings because A, at like two inches tall they would have just been colored lines running across their backs and would have just muddied up the forms, and B, my professor would have noticed them and then I would have had to take forever trying to explain fantasy art to a Fine Arts Person (actually she asked how they got onto that rock, so I ended up having to explain it anyway ).
The floatstone (yay pretentious made-up terminology) rocks also look different from the way I've drawn them previously. Every time I've drawn them they just look like normal rocks that happen to be airborne. Being a huge Roger Dean fan, I decided normal rocks were way too boring and I needed to find a more interesting way of presenting them. I started drawing these weird sweeping curved shapes, so this is how floatstone looks from now on.

<- hit the Download link for a proper resolution.

In closing, I really need to paint some landscapes that aren't predominantly yellowish green and cobalt blue.

Description
FINALLY got this uploaded.
This was my final project for Painting I. What you can't tell from this photo is that it's five feet across. The idea was to work on a big canvas, but instead of using the size to support a larger brushstroke, stick with my usual smallish strokes, pack it with detail, and use the size of the canvas to present an epic sense of scale.
I've been sort of eternally frustrated by the fact that the apparent size of my art is limited by the size of the viewer's monitor (I always end up killing myself over details that aren't even visible at the final resolution), so it was really, really fun to work this way. Kind of ironic and stupid that after all that the only way to show it to the world is on tiny monitors. :/

Oil on canvas, 48"x36" (used an entire freaking tube of Cobalt Blue XD), done in FIVE DAYS and probably 30 hours or so. Honestly I totally lost track; I was working on it between five and nine hours every day, except I let it dry for one. The whole thing culminated in a mind-crushing double all-nighter, in which I worked on it from 2:00-ish until midnight, went home, wrote a program in 10 hours that was supposed to take like three weeks, slept for two hours, turned in said program, attended (and basically slept through) the rest of classes that day, finished classes at 10:00 PM (weird schedule), and then went and painted until 8:00 the next morning. Went home, slept for about four more hours and then came back to the studio for the final review.

WINGS STUFF:
So this is the City of the Fountain: the capital city of the country in which the whole story takes place (WHICH I STILL HAVEN'T NAMED ARGH). The reason it looks like the island exploded out of the ground is because it did. It's a landbreak, which I'm not going to explain because I already did here . The two figures are Eysa and Caiden two of the three main characters. Eysa has red hair now, not that anyone keeps track of these things besides me. XD
I didn't paint their wings because A, at like two inches tall they would have just been colored lines running across their backs and would have just muddied up the forms, and B, my professor would have noticed them and then I would have had to take forever trying to explain fantasy art to a Fine Arts Person (actually she asked how they got onto that rock, so I ended up having to explain it anyway ).
The floatstone (yay pretentious made-up terminology) rocks also look different from the way I've drawn them previously. Every time I've drawn them they just look like normal rocks that happen to be airborne. Being a huge Roger Dean fan, I decided normal rocks were way too boring and I needed to find a more interesting way of presenting them. I started drawing these weird sweeping curved shapes, so this is how floatstone looks from now on.

<- hit the Download link for a proper resolution.

In closing, I really need to paint some landscapes that aren't predominantly yellowish green and cobalt blue.