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CaraKhan — The House on the Hill

Published: 2009-02-18 07:58:05 +0000 UTC; Views: 3300; Favourites: 49; Downloads: 68
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Description Just an ordinary day?


Practicing mountains mostly, but I spent way too much time on this (3 hrs). Could have come up with a better ship design. I keep finding it hard to just call it finished (as an exercise in finishing a picture every day) because I just dont think its good enough to put up.

Critiques I'm looking for are on color and lighting, or general technique I guess.

Stock used as reference:
[link] (house)
[link] (mountains)

Anywho, enjoy.
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Comments: 14

shivnas [2009-08-15 21:26:54 +0000 UTC]

it reminds me of that scene in Howl's Moving Castle where Howl takes Sophie to his little cabin place with the wide meadow and there is a ship flying near it.

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CaraKhan In reply to shivnas [2009-08-17 20:05:16 +0000 UTC]

Heh, I didn't even think of that, and it's one of my favorite movies! Perhaps subconsciously Thanks!

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Darklordd [2009-08-04 13:05:32 +0000 UTC]

LOL, same here, took me 5 mins then I was like whoa, is that a space ship? haha

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Veinctor [2009-06-28 13:07:10 +0000 UTC]

i love your drawings and illustrations. well done

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FallenYangeL [2009-03-02 12:20:46 +0000 UTC]

Peaceful... until you see that spaceship, it has a whole other feeling to it when you notice that . It's an amazing piece, I love the way you put a lot of fantasy in you sceneries.
Maybe you should let the spaceship stand out a little bit more, not much, but it looks like it's part of the sky.

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CaraKhan In reply to FallenYangeL [2009-03-02 23:10:57 +0000 UTC]

yea I agree, I wasn't working on a color accurate monitor and didn't notice how much it blended in until the next day. I'll remember that next time, thanks for the compliments!

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Bonbon4ik [2009-02-19 06:03:49 +0000 UTC]

At you it has turned out!!))

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Bonbon4ik [2009-02-18 13:24:32 +0000 UTC]

At once the cartoon film was recollected "Howl’s Moving Castle"

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CaraKhan In reply to Bonbon4ik [2009-02-18 19:56:36 +0000 UTC]

Interesting, I think I can see what you mean, the color palette is similar. I did want to do something with bright colors and I do love that movie so thank you

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Maskmaker24 [2009-02-18 08:06:46 +0000 UTC]

My one critique is that the background blue of the sky seems a bit pale and uniform, but I really love the light from the ship on the mountains

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CaraKhan In reply to Maskmaker24 [2009-02-18 08:10:11 +0000 UTC]

fair enough I should have known to go back into it, I'll remember that for next time for sure. Thanks!

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VliegendeNederlandse [2009-02-18 08:02:52 +0000 UTC]

That is very amusing. I sat admiring the landscape for five minutes before I noticed the ship, and it really made me look twice.

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CaraKhan In reply to VliegendeNederlandse [2009-02-18 08:06:41 +0000 UTC]

hah thanks, my boyfriend gave me that idea
boyfriend: "oh that looks kinda cool. kinda boring"
me: "sorry I'm just practicing landscapes"
boyfriend:" yea well there should be like an alien invasion or something"

voila! he is my muse.

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VliegendeNederlandse In reply to CaraKhan [2009-02-18 08:18:51 +0000 UTC]

Amazing how odd little things like that can be so inspiring. xD

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