Waiting On The Dawn by Artephius_Magnus

Mixed Medium • Fantasy • posted on Aug 28, 2011

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Description

The final layout art for the opening page spread of "The Ring Saga, Book I: Curse of the Rhinegold", a four-volume illustrated novel based on Wagner's Ring cycle. The overall look of this piece was intended to invoke the feel of a watercolor painting, which seemed appropriate given its content. The main Rhinemaiden character, as well as all background props, were rendered in Poser, with the remaining landscape being created during postwork in Photoshop, using painted backgrounds and overlays. For the Viking ship prop and Rhinemaiden character models I used a lot of custom morphs and texturing to add such things as rot and moss to the boat and fins and fish scales to the female figure. Over a hundred models, textures and layers were used to build the final image. For full production credits and additional concept and test renders, visit http://www.fantasycastlebooks.com/RingSagaArt-PageSpread01.html

Comments (9)

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Carlazzo

2:41PM | Sun, 28 August 2011

This is a fantastic work.

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twingo

2:49PM | Sun, 28 August 2011

Magical scene, really excellent.

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Feliciti

4:15PM | Sun, 28 August 2011

looks fantastic with all this details !!wonderful colortones too !thanks for link ,interesting to see how it was created!!

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thecytron

10:35AM | Mon, 29 August 2011

Nicely put together!

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saphira1998

12:41PM | Mon, 29 August 2011

great art

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wotan

8:34PM | Tue, 30 August 2011

Very personal and creative style... I will watching your future artworks!

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Bossie_Boots

5:40AM | Thu, 01 September 2011

Yes i agree i like your style too !!

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vapo

4:50PM | Thu, 08 September 2011

I'm truly fascinated by these images of yours... I see work of an artist with a very original imagination and great skills to execute all the ideas... marvelous work in this spectacular scene! Vashek

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odile

1:08AM | Fri, 09 September 2011

You have a superb style,very creative, very orignal. Bravo for your work. And I agree with Vashek. It's interesting to hear of your work on Beowulf. A looong time ago,at university, I studied Old English and Beowulf was in the list.My edition of Beowulf is prefaced by Tolkien ! :) Thank you for sharing your excellent work. Odile