Dec '19
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Tortured and scarred, the earth itself seeks revenge from furnace fire, polluted water, and poisoned air that wrought havoc under the control of their short-sighted captors: us.

Latest, Final Version:

Full Name: Xiaochang Grace Liu
Email: lxc2000@msn.com
Website: https://www.artstation.com/graceliu
@Twitter: @NightblueArt
@Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nightblue09

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Dec '19
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I have roughly a week before having to return to job-related stuff, so this will have to come fast and furious :smile:

Dec '19

Nice to see you here again, and you're back with a cool sketch too

Dec '19

Update before bed! this is gonna be a fun one

Dec '19

Off to a good start! And welcome back :smiley:

She's attacking the other elements, I like that.

Dec '19

@skullguzma: Thanks! Yeah, she's out here to wreck everything as we know it...

Update, managed to get in a couple hours today. Will try for more tonight. Hiding from family interactions lol

Dec '19

Value rough done! jumping into color cz gotta go fast before break is over

Dec '19

Wow, very cool! I can't wait to see colors!

Dec '19

Wow it looks so awesome!

Dec '19

@Serfer : Thanks a lot!
@arkkmelai: Appreciate it! Yup the blizz fan gal is showing :smile:

Calling it a day and here's the painting pass wip.

Dec '19

Love how clean and lightweight the image is :heart: Great work! I wish i ever could get to that level :astonished:

Dec '19

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nightblue-art

Darn thats great job. Looking great. Cant really comment much.

I like that she is fighting the other elements too. I'm cheering for the fire spirit to get the upper hand tho! (go team fire) :wink:

Keep going, I want to see the final illustration :smile:

Dec '19

@threees: thank you! I don't think I've ever learned how to work cleanly, more how to hide my mess haha

@serovero: Thank you! Nope Team Earth will own! muhaha

This is where I'm leaving this image till I can get back to my larger, actual work computer screen with a fresh pair of eyes. Thanks all who's been along for this short but crazy ride! Next update should be some time before deadline, hahaha

Dec '19

Really cool! Looking forward to the final updates!

Dec '19

Absolutely beautiful! :smile: I love how all the colors blend.

Dec '19

Woah.. Great work! I really love the colors!

Jan '20

Amazing. Love the colour.

Jan '20

Wow really beautiful! Love the range of the color palette and that she is fighting all of the other elements! Also getting an awesome WoW Druid vibe :smile:

Jan '20

Whoa, thanks all for the outpouring of kindness :-o

I'm back to real life from the break, so please bear with some little 1-hour lunch updates that's gonna come up! Dislike how flat everything is, so I'm going to focus on value grouping now that I have a much larger screen to see the whole picture on.

Jan '20

Omg this is so amazing! I love everything about this!

Jan '20

This is some bloody phenomenal work, amazing stuff! Where can one find more of your work?

Jan '20

@Gil_Ascher: THank you so much!
@kriros: Thank you!
@captdiablo: Appreciate it! I'm active on facebook and artstation: https://www.artstation.com/graceliu
@phume10: Thank you!

Was polishing along this morning and suddenly I think I've figured out why the composition bugs me. 1. the scale of the fire dude and the earth elemental are too similar. 2. there is zero foreground in this picture :-o

Here's a fix-in-progress. I'll need to look at it later to see if I've ended up over-filling the image. I would guess I'll need quite a bit more value adjustments around the middle parts to get the value composition to work again, but I think the balance between the figures is much better. Also drew over the fire elemental to try to make his design less boring and flow better.

Jan '20

Oh you're at Airship Syndicate, well that explains everything. Thought the style looked very Darksiders-ish, now I know why :smile:

Jan '20

Ahh wow this looks amazing! So colourful and full of life. Personally I think it's difficult to tell immediately of the element considering the first hit I get is green, nature based but the used of the gradient from blue to green to red is really pleasing to the eye. Wish you the best of luck with your piece :smiley:

Jan '20

love it! great colors, very dynamic piece!

Jan '20

Thanks a lot! I kept tweaking the composition and colors. Hoping to find some time to polish more before finalizing, it needs some sharp edges still and too many things are still too noodly, haha.

Jan '20

Glad to see you here this year too!!!
And it looks incredible!! I've just arrive and you're done already! So fast!! * ^ *

Jan '20

Great work, can't wait to see the finished illustration!

Jan '20

This is incredible, awesome illustration in every points !

Jan '20

I just realised what I said didn't make any sense lmao I thought the original element was water but being it's earth it's far better! I apologise for that. Either way amazing work!