fox & flame 2

Here's the last fox & flame painting, for now. Initially, the roughs were based upon a short story outline I'd written. From there I decided to take a few pieces to finish. I like the approach of the talented guys who post on the Draw Force blog, so the themes of the individual paintings are pretty similar to theirs. In the end I wanted to have two character illustrations, a location, a character posed, and then a showdown between two of the characters. I ended up mixing in a couple secondary characters along the way, since they were pretty prominent in the original story.

I feel like the exercise was successful - I'm pretty happy with the results. I might take another short story or fairy tale and create another set of the same five illustrations at some point.

edit: the image in this post was adjusted for browsing in firefox. After seeing it in safari, it looks almost black. If the colors look too dark, click here for the original values. Most of the images I post seem a little off from the .psd, this time especially.