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Published: 2016-09-20 19:35:03 +0000 UTC; Views: 498; Favourites: 18; Downloads: 17
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Balance is not something to seek due to your many demons in your head, but something to seek despite your many demons. Because it's unfair to let them win and letting them hurt your world through you.Done for Palette challenge over at Deranged-Dares . The palette has to be limited to purple/magenta and yellow/orange. I think I did my best. Not the most original theme, but ach. Not every work has to have deep meaning.
DAZStudio and Iray. Slight correction in Photoshop, background my own photo (although recolored). This time no Picasa.
All comments are welcome.
Used content:
- Characters:
1.By DAZStudio: Creature Creator
2.By SickleYield: Fantastical Horns pack
3.By Arki: SeaFolk Charyon
4.By Arki: SeaFolk Mertails and fins
5.By Sickleyield and Fuseling: Mermaid Genesis
- Clothing:
1.By Ravenhair: Evilson
2.By Mada and Sarsa: Asgard Cleric
3.By parrotdolphin: Pd Iray Shader kit 2
4.By V3Digitimes: Guardians of the Flame
-Hair:
1.By IgnisSerpentus: Regina Malorum Hair
2.By StudioArtVartanian: Aram Hair
3.By Lady Littlefox: Lucian Hair
-Surrounding:
1.By fictionalbookshelf: Iray Water Shaders Lakes and Ponds
2.By Merlin Studios: Archaic Ruins
3.By JGreenlees: Ingenious Rock Shaders
4.By Flink: Flink's Autumn Leaves
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Comments: 56
Thank you. Had to recolor almost everything here, to stay within the challenge limits. I was afraid it would look very unnatural, but was pleasantly surprised.
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Violet and yellow are certainly complimentary and I agree that simplicity can have every bit of impact as the deep meaning that you might never find. Very cool image. The purple people in the background are interesting.
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The colors very quite limiting, that's probably why everything remained so simple in story. But the purple people are there for a reason. They're waiting for a weakness to appear.
Have you thought of doing something for the challenge? It's quite interesting to go through your content library looking for yellow stuff.
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The challenges are a great idea to stir ones imagination outside the usual box, but I seem to get wrapped up my usual fare that I don't try. Doing a challenge once a month may be a good resolution for the new year.
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You really should do it. It's a great way to come out of your box.
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Thanks. Yeah, it's not easy to float in the air while being calm, when there are creepers all around your inner world, waiting to strike at the slightest weakness.
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I really like this, the colours are poping out of the picture 
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Well they're complementary colors, so they probably enhance each other a lot. But this didn't go half as bad as I expected. I was afraid I'll have to go back to traditional paint for this challenge, just to make sure the colors are not mixed with 'stranger colors'.
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That could have looked weird. Green mixed with purple always looks weird, for example.
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Depends on the colors. You can always tone them. Challenge?
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Is that a "yes" so I can add it to the list?
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Nice take on the colour palette! Taht floaty thing is always tricky to make it work, but is works fine, I guess the leaves are helping to the impression
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Yeah, I guess the leafs work as a repoussoir of some sort. Although I still feel like a quick cheap copycat with this topic. The floating guy in balance is a very old and many times used theme.
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No need to worry about topics that have been used so many times in a variety of art and art styles. There are some that every aknowleged artist of a time had to do at least once
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That's true. Although the more banal the topic, the less you feel like an achievement when you do it. More like some practice.
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Great use of depth of field in this one! Love the literal way you took the demon...
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I like demons. I couldn't let a possibility to render demons go by, right?
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Oh absolutely lol!
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Great result considering the palette limits, and interesting idea. It appears that maintaining the balance is a challenge though, given the character’s appearance and the figure(s) in the background, who I am guessing is(are) not having a nap…
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They definitely are not taking a nap. They're are watching him closely.
Are you going to try something for the challenge as well?
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My original thought was that he may have hurt them (not to go into much more drastic scenarios) and that is why it is not very easy for him to maintain the balance the narrative is about...
I am currently working on something, which wouldn’t fit into this challenge… The result could be monochrome, and if it does call for a specific color, green would be the logical one... I don’t take part in contests a lot, also because I have limited time for 3D, and spend a lot of time on the images I in the end decide to upload…
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It's a permanent battle. They try to take a hold of him, because he's their only exit to the outside world. He can only fight them off by keeping the balance, therefore keeping them at a distance. If he fails, they'll attack his weakness immediately.
Damn, didn't Senzzo-art teach me to remain silent to not disturb the flow of the a viewer's interpretation...
Ah ok. Personally for me those challenges can be a jump-start of an idea, since you're forced to think out of your comfort zone, but I get it when people don't have much time to fool around with those crazies.
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Great concept!
Yes, challenge themes can definitely inspire or direct something one is already working on. This specific one doesn’t trigger any immediate thoughts, maybe because I don’t associate these colors with any meaning, or story, or book… Actually yellow just did as I type this…
I will need to look at the other challenge themes in the group and see if some of my ideas may fit…
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Yeah, ok, I'll have to admit, those colors are not the most inspiring ones. I was thinking of convincing my co-founder to do this one again, a bit later, but then with black and red. Or black, red and white. Those colors I can definitely see much faster forming some inspirational effort.
But I hope you'll find some other challenge to your liking. We have quite a bunch of them, and more are coming.
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In the end I have a thought with the yellow as I mentioned... Purple doesn't fit yet, but it may. Will need to see what items I have and whether I can make it interesting, as it's a reference to a novel, which not everybody would recognize...
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I'll have to send some sweets to your Muse then. She must keep going!
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Sweets may not work … My main character is more interested in spicy things…
Kidding aside… once I am finished with what I am working on now, I will try that scene with the yellow… and will likely make purple fit as well... Will also be an experiment on how to only leave two colors in an image in render... May also revive my GF3 character for it, which in turn will involve some tweaking for 4.9 version of DAZ Studio…
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Sounds like you and your Muse will have fun together. I can send over some Kimchi, if needed.
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Agree with everything you said and I think you did rather well considering the challenge. I enjoy reading the things you have to say and that's actually great wisdom to follow.
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Thank you. I mostly make them up as I go along. Years of interpreting photography shows.
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Thank you. They say complementary colors make each other stand out, so it could be the effect of the yellow. You know, like putting oranges in blue paper, so they looks more fresh and orange.
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Very nice, the depth of this image is a very nice touch.
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Thanks. I'm a DOF junkie, had to add some flying leafs here, to make him not stand out too much. The focus needed to be really on him, while the inner world is in the background.
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I am too, but I really like the layering of the leafs. Really brings out the depth with him as the center.
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Yep, repoussoir effect can be used even with such a small thing as a leaf. But I kinda stole the idea from other 3D renderes like Ourako or Mavrosh.
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Not sure of Ourako off hand, but definitely know Mavrosh's work. I can see some influence there.
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You should take a look at her gallery, she's amazing: ourako.deviantart.com
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Really cool picture. Your character looks both serene and powerful.
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