Cleaning this out so I can fix it up with better content.
I tried tumblr and posterous…. both have more annoyances than boons.
I’m also testing out the android wp app. Lessee how this works. … <<later>> Okay, this looks good. Let’s discuss something I posted on twitter ( see here ) :
So I did cave studies. Why? I know some people wanted to see a place set up in my dreams (lucidly, of course). Actually, several places.
I don’t know how to set this up right… it’s weird. I do write sci-fi in my free time about a universe that has some serious identity crisis. This places and the places I usually dream about are in a different scape (not to say I don’t lucidly dream about sci-fi places I want to write about… but I try not to tool with my sleep as much these days as I did in the past.
Okay, so, I posted a buncha thumbnail paintings. No big deal, right? Here’s sort of how I’m going about this.
This place above is actually itself inspired by my friend getting me talking about nausica. I painted more like this, but won’t post them. Still this is close enough to some cave styles that I had to share it here, and it’s also on the thumbsheet. Essentially, these craggy places got formed at an atoll, which later became utterly dominated by dragons. I don’t paint any here, but the scale of the caves should become apparent in later thumbnails. Most of the thumbnails have a height of close to an inch and a half, but the actual caves in all examples would easily contain a draggy.
This was the first cave idea I tried capturing. A tidal cave, this place is really going to look like a shelf under what is likely a very grassy scape with random volcanic rock jutting out. I dismissed this one for a while, but might end up sharing later.
Here, you can see that I got more skylight stuff. That’s because this cave system had more erosion and thus more stalactites form near the hole upper left. I ended up showing a fissure to the right of the rock pillar in the middle. The fissure is far in the back, and goes down deeply. The moist air from the sea foaming about this lifted atoll causes the ambiance to be epic looking in here… even dark dark places have a glow of sunlight from all the diffused light bouncing in the atmosphere.
This place I admit right off… I just went “booooring… BLAM crystal. Woo!” So forgive the lame blue crystal… which is almost as generic looking as an explosive barrel in a video game. So this place is the upper roost of Dune. He’s not shown here, but I gave him that name just from his appearance as a slender, pale/yellowish dragon. Not very typical…. but I know my other paintings of him are close to spot on since I did them right after waking up. I’ll show him in a later post. He’s really really weird in that I didn’t ‘buff’ him up with horns or scales. I left him nearly as-is… and he retains a utterly smooth look… though upon close inspection you’d find as I did whilst mucking around here… that he had skin not unlike a shark’s skin. I haven’t dreamed about this place or him since, so I’m unsure if I can really say he’s straight up aquatic. The coloration doesn’t make sense at all for that. So maybe my subconscious was smoking something again. Big biiig surprise there.
Okay. Let me know if you like me doing this. I’m going to be linking these to my devart and twitter posts.
