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River Twine - Growler Geyser
by Eregyrn
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Man, there's no way my description for this is going to fit here. 
I'll put it in one or two comments below. In short: a River Twine hunting party is the first to see the eruption of a new geyser in the tribe's hunting territory.
Pentel Pocket-Brush pen and regular fine-line pen inks; Copic marker coloring; some final effects in Photoshop.
Posted April 14, 2010, 08:18:17 PM
river twine, windsong
I'll put it in one or two comments below. In short: a River Twine hunting party is the first to see the eruption of a new geyser in the tribe's hunting territory.Pentel Pocket-Brush pen and regular fine-line pen inks; Copic marker coloring; some final effects in Photoshop.
Posted April 14, 2010, 08:18:17 PM
river twine, windsong
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Eregyrn
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Comment #1 - Posted April 21, 2010, 08:04:30 AM
I did this piece recently for a contest at River Twine Holt, the theme of which was... well, we've had 4 characters rejoin the tribe recently after decades or in some cases centuries sleeping in wrapstuff, and for each of them, a Howl was held where their tribemates could tell stories about some of the things they missed while they were sleeping. I had a bunch of ideas for things to do, but the one I ended up actually finishing was this one: about 150 years before the present, this hunting party (consisting of young Windsong, who is still around to tell the story; her sister Finch; Finch's lifemate Bowflight; and Ringtail, all three of whom are now deceased) were the first to witness the eruption of a new geyser within the tribe's hunting territory.
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Eregyrn
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Comment #2 - Posted April 21, 2010, 08:04:40 AM
Doing this pic, I was inspired by and somewhat indebted to recent studying of a large number of vintage (early 20th c.) WPA National Parks posters... although, this is a pastiche rather than a copy of any particular one, and it's still not nearly as appealingly simplified and stylized as those posters are. Furthermore, in order to help me get my head around how to do very small, low-detail elves and wolves, I studied and drew from a handful of examples of Wendy's art in various canon EQ issues.
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Treefox
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Comment #3 - Posted April 27, 2010, 01:54:41 AM
I love it. Simply do. I think you put in the right amount of detail. I also like how you did the simplified wolves. How large is this picture? I don't think that I could manage to draw that small...
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Comment #4 - Posted April 27, 2010, 06:13:41 PM
I admire your patience, spending the time you seem to have doing the backgrounding. Most artists (including me) are more concerned about the characters. Good on ya!
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Eregyrn
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Comment #5 - Posted April 28, 2010, 01:42:33 PM
Thanks! This was actually a sort of challenge to myself, because I think that when I draw, I also tend to be more concerned about being able to SEE the characters. It really went against my inclination to do something where the characters were so de-emphasized, but I wanted to try to create a sense of scale, and I thought it would be a good exercise. One thing I've always liked about WP's art is that the characters were so well-designed that even when she did a panel where they were very tiny, you could generally tell who it was.
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Eregyrn
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Comment #6 - Posted April 28, 2010, 01:42:50 PM
This is a composite piece, so the background was done on one 9x12 piece of paper, and the figures were done on another horizontally so that I could draw them about 2x as big as they would be in this final composite. Then I put all the inks together, printed it out, and colored it as once piece. (I've done lots of pieces like that in the past, and my biggest mistake is often putting too much detail into the figures that are going to get shrunk down. So that was the exercise for myself here: to do them in a sufficiently simplified way that they fit the picture.)
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Chieftess Sorrell
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Comment #7 - Posted April 30, 2010, 03:15:29 PM
This is an awesome piece. Thanks for sharing it
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