The Other Side by Rutra
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This is the 4th image in my series "Days of Awe", featuring this little girl. This image is the direct sequel to "The Secret Cove". This was the world that our little girl found on the other side of that seemingly innocent cove.
Series "Days of Awe" until now:
EDIT added Feb 24th, 3:14 AM:
My aim was to create a fantasy work, not a realistic image. I know purpleish sky wouldn't realistically match a blue-green water. Several other elements are exagerated. I wanted color in this image, it's a fantasy world seen through the eyes of a little girl.
This also explains the camera position. It's precisely behind the girl's eyes because I wanted the viewer to see the world through her eyes, with fantasy eyes.
The symmetry of the image, and the girl's central placement, is intentional (not my usual, but in this case, it had to be). I didn't want anything dynamic, this image is a contemplation of something very beautiful (or I wanted it to be), she's in awe (the series name), so I wanted a "static" image, so to speak. The girl is at the center of this world, it could be her future world.
Because the girl is at the image center, conceptually she could lose her status of focal point. However, she's visually predominant, you can't help noticing her right away. Because she's at the center, and not in a more traditional focal position, the eyes of the viewer should wander (and, hopefully, wonder) from place to place in the image, contemplating, like she is.
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Let me tell you a little secret:
Maybe some of you saw and remember the image I posted a few days ago, "I can see the sun".
Well, originally, this image was going to be another one in this series too. In terms of story flow, this would be the image between "the secret cove" and "the other side". My original "vision" for "I can see the sun" had the little girl floating in an improvised boat in the river inside the cave, finding the statue. While I was making the image, I felt there would be too strong conflicting focal points, the girl and the statue, with the risk that the girl would become a secondary character, given the visual strength of the statue. I didn't want that, so I removed the girl. But, you can be sure that our little girl found this statue, on her way to "the other side"...
Thanks for watching!
EDIT added Feb 24th, 3:14 AM:
My aim was to create a fantasy work, not a realistic image. I know purpleish sky wouldn't realistically match a blue-green water. Several other elements are exagerated. I wanted color in this image, it's a fantasy world seen through the eyes of a little girl.
This also explains the camera position. It's precisely behind the girl's eyes because I wanted the viewer to see the world through her eyes, with fantasy eyes.
The symmetry of the image, and the girl's central placement, is intentional (not my usual, but in this case, it had to be). I didn't want anything dynamic, this image is a contemplation of something very beautiful (or I wanted it to be), she's in awe (the series name), so I wanted a "static" image, so to speak. The girl is at the center of this world, it could be her future world.
Because the girl is at the image center, conceptually she could lose her status of focal point. However, she's visually predominant, you can't help noticing her right away. Because she's at the center, and not in a more traditional focal position, the eyes of the viewer should wander (and, hopefully, wonder) from place to place in the image, contemplating, like she is.
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Let me tell you a little secret:
Maybe some of you saw and remember the image I posted a few days ago, "I can see the sun".
Well, originally, this image was going to be another one in this series too. In terms of story flow, this would be the image between "the secret cove" and "the other side". My original "vision" for "I can see the sun" had the little girl floating in an improvised boat in the river inside the cave, finding the statue. While I was making the image, I felt there would be too strong conflicting focal points, the girl and the statue, with the risk that the girl would become a secondary character, given the visual strength of the statue. I didn't want that, so I removed the girl. But, you can be sure that our little girl found this statue, on her way to "the other side"...
Thanks for watching!
Comments (76)
gillbrooks
The purple/blue-green combination are to my mind THE perfect fantasy colour combination. The other combination is turquoise/brown :) I absolutely love this scene!
Sue88
Beautiful! I love the colors and all those stars.
zollacce
very beautiful
jrcejaspulido
Excellent addition to you wonderful series.
BenBischop
Amazing....!!
Antonio57
MAGNIFIQUE!!!!!!!!
FCLittle
I like this very much, but I do agree with chippwalters about the purple sky....aside from that, I dont agree there is a lack of focus, I think it's clearly the girl and her little kitty....I honestly dont much care if there is a lack of focus, anyway, since I think it's part of great art to make you want to discover al its hidden secrets which can be just as important as the main focus..... I love that she's in a cave with a waterfall! I honestly didn't notice this until I'd looked at it for a while....
lyron
Amazing image. Excellent work!!
AnAardvark
Incredible. I love the whole series.
philiplopezjr
One of my favorite series of yours. Now I think she has to swim across to continue the journey.
Cherryman
Mooi!
shipmanjonathan
Awesome! Love it!
Umbetro38
Your works are always magic and so perfect
Angelsinger
For me, the beauty in this resides in so many things: the little girl looking with expectancy into the distance (she is not merely looking, but waiting)... Her cat lovingly close to her, very nearly wrapping his body around her legs, as they do in real life... :p I can't tell you what my eyes saw first, because I noticed so many things that are like a vision I have tried to reproduce over the years (as a kid, with crayons, as a teen, with coloring pencils, as an adult, with programs) -- but I have never come near it. I almost wrote to you, "Who gave you permission to post my vision!?" LOL The colors do me in. "Purple makes green dance!!" an enthusiastic, brilliant artist told me years ago when I shyly confessed loving combinations of purples and greens. Something about those colors together just.. resonate with me deeply. The sky, I cannot describe, it's too beautiful. The flowing water -- AH!!! Perfection in the way it fools me into thinking it is a moving thing! And maybe it's silly to point out that the directly illuminated areas of the water are the exact green of so many waves I played in.. and watched in awe. My only complaint is that I wish this was my image and not yours. :p
supermarioART
Very magical work and lighting!Water and colors are fantastic!!!
beatoangelico
Excellent image and wonderful scene..!!!
Miska7
Very nice image. Great lighting and textures! Excellent work!
kftate
Wow! Excellent image.
scifibabe
I am just loving your series. Simply awesome! Love the little girl and her cat staring at that magnificent sky. Amazing composition and colors. Well done! This is so good I'd buy the print and hang it on my wall.
dbrv6
Wonderful image. Before I read your comments I was strongly struck by thoughts of Aristotle's Cave.
amanda_a42
What an enchanted captivating image of extreme beauty, fantastic!!!
rj2650
Fabulous image. Absolutely amazing work.
Schnuck
Super!!!
UBATUBA
magical!
grafikeer
A colleague and I were discussing just the other day the fact that most amateur artists almost always place the focal point dead centre in their images,but as they gain more knowledge of the principles of composition etc. the scenes then relate to the Rules of Thirds and other "golden rules" and you seldom see an image with the figure dead-centre.This is a welcome departure from the norm,and works on so many levels-both as a way to see the world at the girls' height and to give a sense of the girls' world enveloping her as a sense of comfort in the familiar while viewing the unknown from across the void(in this case the water).A masterful image full of your trademark details and nuances,and a fave for me...BRAVO!
Jilly
awesome!
gerberc
Fantastic!
DMFW
Very creative work and I appreciate your thoughtful explanation for how the composition was put together. I think you have achieved exactly what you set out to achieve.
faroutsider
Literally out of this world!
shine40
This is incredibly beautiful!