Messenger by faroutsider
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Mavka has an important message to deliver - and it doesn't look like good news... (Yes, it is the same region of forest where the Trackers were sighted, which may account for her concern...)
I've been wanting to play with the cat saddle for ages - the impossibility of the contraption and the concept really appeals to me. Have you ever tried to train a cat, let alone ride one?
Posed and rendered in Poser 8, background created in Vue 8.4 Infinite, post work and signature in Photoshop CS3.
TFL. Please zoom for full effect.
Craig
PS Last week's run was a monster. I got half way, then had a blinding flash of common sense, and stopped. Even so, I felt a great sense of achievement - more than half the field didn't even run that far. And I finished right next to the desserts (thanks to Savage_dragon for those :o)
Many thanks for all your encouragement and good wishes for the run. Next year...!!!
And now it's on to the cycling season...
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Comments (35)
amota99517
Fantastic work! I really like the lighting.
flora-crassella
gorgeous work!!!!!!
popeslattz
I tried to ride a cat once. Poor thing is in a shoebox in the back yard now. Your little one seems to be getting the hang of it, though. Great scene. Love the shadows cast onto the tree.
artgum
Excellent visual storytelling!
anahata.c
what a delight it is to come back to your work. No matter what you portray, there's always a gentleness inside it, and a sense of play with even the most serious topics, and a genuine intelligence behind it all. Yes the messenger looks like she may not have good news, but some of that might be the deep shadows of the forest she's in; and then, her expression could just be fatigue, like "how long do I have to ride this cat!" You did the cat very well, in a position of actually galloping (not too common with cats, lol) (and btw, I've seen cats trained, but only so far: I doubt they'd transport a frog not to mention a small child!); and I must commend you on the perspective and angles---I assume, in Poser or any 3D software, getting those foot holds and saddle in that angle, and getting them exact (which this feels like) takes some doing, as does the cat's many angles, etc. It's not easy to do it in drawing; but in a program where you're setting up the paradigms, I'd imagine it takes genuine thought, as you indicate with the saddle. And while there are intense bursts of light in your mysterious forest, there's a lot of shade, against which the leaves & bark acquire a dark 'glow'. And the rest is shadow...(Hamlet says something like that, as he's dying---ie, "the rest is silence". It would be great if he said, "the rest is shadow" and Horatio would say, "pardon me???") (even "wtf???" would do...I'd pay Shakespeare 2 million dollars to write "wtf" just once...) Anyway, I like how the light is most intense near the ground, as if there's a secret light source "in" the ground, just for Mavka & her journey. An enchanted image, she's tired, yes, but who knows how long she's been riding; and your treatment of all that surrounds her is a delight.