This week’s ChoW was Gaia, the ancient Greek personification of the Earth and nature.
Full image and process breakdown after the jump.
In Greek vase painting, Gaia is depicted as a woman emerging from the ground. In later Roman mosaics, she appears reclining on the earth. I wanted to have a little of both.
I settled on the blue-green palette pretty quickly – it seemed an obvious choice. I did a bit more rendering than I’m completely comfortable with – usually I try to pull back the shadows and highlights to a bare minimum and let the line and value do most of the work.
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Very solid. I really dig the use of trees and the valley on he lower right of the frame to emphasize it.
nicely done!
David, this is really sweet. I really like what you have done here. Hot naked chick aside, taking a Greek/Roman deity and putting it in this context is a great idea. I hope you put add more to this genre.