"Far to the east, past the mountains that touches the sky, roams the land of the horsemen, the centaurs. They are fierce, fast and hostile against anyone who dares to destroy their endless plains of grass and flowers."
Taken from my first story's world, Gaethea. I really love to work on this world's landscapes IT IS TOO LITTLE CONTRAST PEPS?
This image caught my interest from when I saw the thumbnail because of two reasons! Firstly because I saw an interesting fantasy landscape and secondly because there was something in the image that wasn't quite right to my eye.
To begin with, it's a well executed fantasy illustration! The huge peaks fading off into the distance give a feeling of massiveness, that this is an epic scenery from another world. The clouds/mist below and the lush greens suggest that this is a tropical area, and the birds flying helps the viewer to define a sense of scale.
But compositionally, it irks my eye. : O When I look at the picture, my eye goes firstly to the sun. But then there's the really interesting creature to the right, and it feels like it's the creature that should be the center of attention and not the sun.
And the dragon (?) is "cut off" by the side of the image, which feels really strange, composition-wise. I somehow thought this was a wide panorama-ish image, and that deviantart had made the preview smaller, hehe. The dragon is really well done, the tones, the shadows and the wings, so therefore, placing closer to the center or somehow make it more visible would in my opinion improve the image a lot!
But otherwise, the image is well made and I can see that you're used to painting digitally. Even though it might not be the most original artwork ever made in the fantasy genre, it still gives that feeling of an exotic new world just waiting to be explored!
I hope you thought my critique was fair, it's my first critique on deviantart hehe. :3
Wow I love how beautifully rendered the feathers on the wings are. The contrasting yellowish-orange definitely grabs your attention in all that blue and green background . Doesn't hurt that I absolutely love dragons either lol .
The details really catch my eyes. They're just splendidly well put, especially on the mossy, dry grass on the rocky mountains. I really like the 'deep' feeling of the picture. It looks like everything's going steep down there, especially because you added clouds. Yowsie must be flying pretty high right now, I assume? What is behind the mountains? ...it looks like some sort of... field?
Thank you so very much for the lovely compliments, always so lovely to hear! Indeed, Yowsie is flying very high, as those mountains are even higher than Earth's highest mountains xD I don't even know if dragons and birds should be able to fly that high, with the lack of oxygen and all. OH WELL. It's the country to the west in Atlantis, which is mostly covered with fields and centaurs, so you guessed right!
To begin with, it's a well executed fantasy illustration! The huge peaks fading off into the distance give a feeling of massiveness, that this is an epic scenery from another world. The clouds/mist below and the lush greens suggest that this is a tropical area, and the birds flying helps the viewer to define a sense of scale.
But compositionally, it irks my eye. : O When I look at the picture, my eye goes firstly to the sun. But then there's the really interesting creature to the right, and it feels like it's the creature that should be the center of attention and not the sun.
And the dragon (?) is "cut off" by the side of the image, which feels really strange, composition-wise. I somehow thought this was a wide panorama-ish image, and that deviantart had made the preview smaller, hehe.
But otherwise, the image is well made and I can see that you're used to painting digitally. Even though it might not be the most original artwork ever made in the fantasy genre, it still gives that feeling of an exotic new world just waiting to be explored!
I hope you thought my critique was fair, it's my first critique on deviantart hehe. :3
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