Komodo's sketchbook

[Komodo]

Nice job on the latest painting. I don't know how many illustrations of this type you've done so far, but especially if it's one of your first I think you did really well overall. It was a pretty effective use of 3D on the castle. Maybe it would cool to do a simple blockout of a foreground like this and use it as reference for the lighting, if you do another image like this in the future.

Thank you! Yeah that's one of the first composition this complex I've ever done.

In fact I did do a simple blockout to solve some issues for the lighting, a few hours after I began the painting. I did not post it because I wasn't sure it was interesting to anyone.

+ I decided to deviate a bit because I saw a bunch of art pieces where artists were using rather light colors to paint the night, and I liked the look of it, so I took inspiration from there too

Anyway there it is, it's just a screenshot I didn't bother rendering it