Darktiste Sketchbook

[darktiste]

Wow I love that! I never really thought about how or why the genie gets trapped in the bottle. Did you come up with that?

This may go against a stylistic choice you made, but bringing some of that blue light from the background onto the cauldron could help with emphasizing the roundness of the form as well as better placing it onto it's environment

It seem to help the roundness i agree and i already had added a blue filter but i am not sure as to why exactly i would make the swirl self illuminating honestly.

It was a last minute story i tried to create to tie the background with the props it would make more sense to have the magic essense come out of the pot but i am NOT trying to make a illustration so i am kinda getting lost because i am suppose to be more into concept art then illustration. I can end up over rendering i have a texture addiction what can i say. I need to find more self restraint toward the end of my project.

The problem is i think i kinda felt the concept was weak on it own it not always easy to have the props tell a story on it own. As much as i like story telling my responsability as a concept artist is to follow sometime the story of someone else and make it tell it story throught a strong silhouette and use shape language that support the idea.I didn't find to much sucess there during my silhouette iteration phase the idea at it core was resume to two word cauldron desert. So you see that sometime i gotta push beyond the leak of storytelling and create my own story to avoid the to generic problem .As a concept artist who work solo i gotta do 2 job the art direction and the concept art so i try to focus what i am suppose to be doing rather than worry to much about art direction because i need to make sure i get closure in my project.

I think here the motif i put on the cauldron was getting lost you can barely tell what it suppose to be but i was trying to make it seem ancient and not to much the focus of the whole piece.I could have tried to have made the scarab motif a more central piece but i was getting problem with the color which were really saturated and i wanted them like that to reflect a the decorative nature of it but i felt this would have taken away from the cauldron i spend time rendering.