here comes Umbash, a great old swamp-giant that lives in the endless swamps of Nuur.
his arrival is welcomed by a courageous swamp-dweller that approaches him in a small boat and plays a little fanfare on a tiny trumpet.
hopefully Umbash will bless the village of the swamp people with a lot of fish... :)
started out with a crude grey-scale sketch of the scene.
while painting i kept flipping the image horizontally all the time. that way it is easier to see errors.
i used the levels command to make the image darker. dark helps to get the imagination going.
at some point i decided to keep Umbash on the right side but i kept flipping the image to make it look ok on both sides.
i continued detailing the image using a soft brush and eventually i added color.
i resized the hut in the front,the boat and the little dude so he would look like he could actually fit into his home. and i temporarily removed his lamp. i thought it was too bright.
Umbash looks like a cousin of jabba the hut and maybe he is :D
for the final image i returned the lamp to the boat, infested the area with clouds of mosquito, made some fog and i also sharpened the swamp kings tooth.
i kept the image small size to prevent me from detailing too much but at the end i detailed it quite alot.
it´s always hard for me to decide when a painting is ready and how much detail to include.
at the beginning i try to zoom back and paint in a small frame but later on zooming in is almost a vice and often gets me stuck.
for now i call this one finished but i might size it up and detail it further later on.
i love painting swampy scenes and it´s not the first swamp giant i painted and this one is actually like a reboot of my old swamp giant image that i have on deviant art.
hope you enjoyed this!
cheers,
hauke