Beyond Claw Mountain

C & P from devient art too lazy to say anything else except old and new look pretty much the same apart from the detailing. Main rock was a MR render - If I redid this would probably backlight more and make the rocks dark.

"Same techniques as Claw Moutain. Some 2.5 D elements. Zsketching (with zbrush) then comping back into original image. Main rock was an old pencil paper sketch that has been kicking around for a while so wanted to include that in a painting. Compositionally its a bit contrived/ overly staged with all the rocks pointing at the tower. Also went up to 8k way too early and was adding fine detail that when you look at the whole image just can't be seen.' Also spend a lot of time fighting JPEG artifacts from original photo of the pencil"

bone castle

Yep bad name but don't want to burn up calories thinking up cool names. Is getting there but progress is slow maybe because of poor planning and also balancing so many little elements.
Have included the first and last iterations. Have one more day for this one so have to put my roller skates on.

Playing with brushes in Photoshop CS5 - undecided - they are fun tho ;) definitly a step in the right direction and not as confusing and sluggish as painter. Photoshop speed and interface with painter brushes - yes that would be nice.

UPDATE: second one is the finished image and by finished I mean I am sick of doing it