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Description tigaer-design.com proudly presents: DOWN THE RIVER AREND

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It took me a while to find a title for this one. I remembered the belgariad books by david eddings and searched my mind for a place that would fit for my painting. I studied the maps that are in the books and found the 'arend'. The arend divides the lands of arendia and tolnedra. The arend flows through woody areas, which really fits to my painting, and ends in the lands where once was the mighty/legendary battle of vo mimbre. Where the people of the west fought and won against the large army lead by the evil god torak. The evil god got wounded and did fell into a sleep... until the child of light comes to challenge him. To decide all things that are and will be... for ever.

So much for a little insight into the story of the belgariad saga.

TECHN!CAL DETA!LS

I started this one as a futuristic concept actually... like... 3 months ago. Not really a big time project back then. Just something to train some basics. Over the time i got a pretty solid scifi setup that was looking promising. I wasn't too happy with it and asked some close friends what to do. One of my ideas was to go for a nature only scene. Haven't done that in a while. When i got that done and i looked at the pic... it was empty somehow. A close friend told me to try it with some sort of fortress or castle... waterfalls... all the full blown fantasy package. I did so. The result looks ok i guess. Surely 150 layers. Again some kind of digital matte painting thing. I was not going for a super realistic look. I just wanted to visualize an atmosphere... a feeling...

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30hrs - intuos3 - photoshop - 4300px wide - 300dpi

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Comments: 169

seamusmaccorcrain [2012-07-28 11:57:18 +0000 UTC]

You have done justice to the Belgariad series with this work.

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sygardner [2012-05-21 03:53:25 +0000 UTC]

Quite simply excellent, exactly the sort of style I love. The detail is fantastic, a wonderful piece

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mangafan20 [2011-11-16 08:37:47 +0000 UTC]

beautiful!

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farrick [2011-05-04 20:33:21 +0000 UTC]

wow this is amazing
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busterblada [2011-03-09 03:23:04 +0000 UTC]

this is amazing! the amount of detail is awesome!

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sinningsnyder666 [2010-09-13 18:57:34 +0000 UTC]

No, it reminds me more of Vo Wacun, the ruins in Queen Of Sorcerry...and the place that takes a large part of Polgara the Sorceress

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sasukeUCH [2010-07-28 16:30:30 +0000 UTC]

very good

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Orochi-Lee [2010-05-02 08:44:37 +0000 UTC]

Whoa-

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BeensBaxter [2009-03-05 03:12:29 +0000 UTC]

this is absolutely beautiful! and it gives me interesting ideas about when i read them and reread them! Since I do when I get bored with other books...

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Belgariad-fanclub [2009-02-14 23:16:24 +0000 UTC]

Can I have your permission to post this (and any other Belgariad fanart you might have) in the Belgariad fanclub I started? All credit will be given to you.

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tigaer In reply to Belgariad-fanclub [2009-02-17 15:08:00 +0000 UTC]

no problem, as long as you put a link to the original deviation to the description.

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Belgariad-fanclub In reply to tigaer [2009-02-19 23:59:42 +0000 UTC]

Okay, I just posted it. Thanks so much for letting me use it!

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smoochypooprincess [2008-07-23 05:03:22 +0000 UTC]

wow. just wow. this is amazing work. there's so much detail and its such a beautiful sccene.
kudos to you!

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Yoalli [2008-07-09 18:44:26 +0000 UTC]

WOW first pic that i found inspired in david eddings work , and its really GREAT thx for it

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externalmind [2008-05-09 00:33:00 +0000 UTC]

Great combination of integrated city and nature- like my own work- love the concept- plus it looks amazing!!!

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GestianPoet21 [2008-04-12 19:23:13 +0000 UTC]

yay! arendia!
*brainless violence*

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no-rules [2008-01-19 17:10:52 +0000 UTC]

So amazing!

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pavel89l [2008-01-16 05:05:26 +0000 UTC]

Great WORK THANKS

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AndeJC [2007-12-07 07:34:40 +0000 UTC]

Is it just me or does that scene remind anyone else of Rivendell out of LOTR? Still, great picture.

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The-Wandering-Ranger [2007-11-04 16:13:22 +0000 UTC]

this is truely amazing!

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misthicalgirl [2007-09-23 13:46:53 +0000 UTC]

Awsome!! I can`t say nothing... about this

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spill-milk [2007-09-08 15:56:06 +0000 UTC]

very nice work ^^

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SybexMed [2007-09-05 06:03:04 +0000 UTC]

were those buidling drawn to?

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detail24 [2007-07-27 19:50:56 +0000 UTC]

LUKE! I AM YOUR fart0r!

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tigaer In reply to detail24 [2007-07-28 20:01:26 +0000 UTC]

NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!

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detail24 In reply to tigaer [2007-07-29 08:52:47 +0000 UTC]

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Phantatsy [2007-07-25 02:38:02 +0000 UTC]


Very Nice!

lol

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tigaer In reply to Phantatsy [2007-07-27 19:47:50 +0000 UTC]

lol thanks

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dragon-fawn [2007-07-12 18:15:54 +0000 UTC]

*drools* this is AWSOME! I wish I had money to buy a print but sadly I don't and I don't really have room for such a nice print either but I wish I did!

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Demon-Slayer959 [2007-07-04 08:34:49 +0000 UTC]

Herdy gerdy herdy gerdy meatballs. Great work, you've really captured Eddings work.

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quonics [2007-05-22 11:51:33 +0000 UTC]

I love David Eddings and his Balgarid. This image is beautiful. Great render of Arendia.
_R

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tigaer In reply to quonics [2007-05-22 17:08:22 +0000 UTC]

glad you like it

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AnnaKirsten [2007-04-03 11:33:10 +0000 UTC]

This is just in case you are not already aware, but to let you know that this image has been featured in my latest journal [link]

If you already know about this, then please ignore this message!

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tigaer In reply to AnnaKirsten [2007-04-03 14:38:33 +0000 UTC]

thank you

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AnnaKirsten [2007-04-01 12:29:40 +0000 UTC]

WOWW! Excellent artwork, wonderful composition, lighting, just everything about it, really appeals to me!

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xDestitutex [2007-03-21 00:27:20 +0000 UTC]

Sei mir jetzt nicht böse, aber als ich es eben das erste Mal sah dachte ich: "Mensch ein bischen ähnlichkeit mit "The Falls" hat es"
Musste dann aber auch feststellen, das dem bei weitem nicht so ist und es nur durch den Felsen den Anschein hatte

Aber jetzt zum Bild
Was hier sehr Auffällt und ich sehr genial und schön finde sind die Büsche/Bäume im Vordergrund, die irgendwie teilweise den Anschein erwecken sie würden mit dem Rahmen verschmelzen.
Was auch wieder hervorzuheben ist sind natürlich deine Wolken sowie dein Nebel. ich kenne kaum jemanden, der dies so gut hinbekommt wie du. Also wirklich, da könnte ich mich jedesmal dran satt sehen
Was diesesmal richtig real aussieht sind die Bäume bzw. der Wald auf dem rechten Felsen.
Wobei ich auch zugeben muss, dass genau dies immer etwas stört im Bild, denn so gut du auch zeichnen kannst du kriegst das gezeichnete nicht so real hin, wie diese Bäume. Mir wäre da lieber du würdest sie noch etwas kaschieren, so das man nicht sieht das sie aus nem Photo kommen, aber ich weiß auch nicht ob es dann noch dein Artgenre ist, welches du ja eigentlich ausüben möchtest.

Ich hoffe du nimmst die kleine Kritik am Ende nicht übel, aber ich mag es nicht wenn man so unehrlich ist und nicht das sagt was einem stört, egal wie gut das Bild sonst ist... und das ist es wieder.
Aber ist man anderes von dir gewöhnt, außer schöne Landschaften zum Träumen? Freue mich schon darauf demnächst die zeit zu finden "Wolf" zu kommentieren.

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tigaer In reply to xDestitutex [2007-03-24 00:56:47 +0000 UTC]

ich nehm dir schon nix übel, keine sorge. ich weiss ja selber das es immer irgendwas gibt an dem man noooooch mehr hätte arbeiten können. allerdings muss ich zu meiner verteidigung sagen das ich nie sage dass das alles fotorealistische arbeit sein soll. oder ich es so wollte.

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xDestitutex In reply to tigaer [2007-03-24 01:24:47 +0000 UTC]

Nein das hast du nicht und wie gesagt nur weil ich diesen Mix teilweise etwas skeptisch gegenüber stehe muss man sein Genre bzw. seine Kunst nicht gleich komplett ändern, trotzdem bin ich halt immer so ehrlich und sage was mir an Sachen/Deviations stört.

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Word-worth-1000-pics [2007-03-16 04:00:45 +0000 UTC]

This deviation has been chosen as a feature of the week
on which is a community project
promoting artists on dA.
It has been found from the word of the week : "FRIEND/s "

To know how it works: [link]
F.A.Q. : [link]

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arend [2007-03-15 22:49:01 +0000 UTC]

Arend?

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tigaer In reply to arend [2007-03-16 00:17:28 +0000 UTC]

indeed

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siulzz [2007-03-07 20:06:59 +0000 UTC]

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Dellas18 [2007-02-26 18:15:03 +0000 UTC]

Can't think of many words right now except 'thats stunning'

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YsabelG [2007-02-25 05:08:16 +0000 UTC]

Truly splendid!

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Philosophy25 [2007-02-23 07:57:55 +0000 UTC]

I know you've heard it a lot
but great painting
And you did it all digitally too,
wicked

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juuli [2007-02-22 17:36:47 +0000 UTC]

Wow, this is amazing.

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LIKA--Elvennight1999 [2007-02-20 18:46:11 +0000 UTC]

WAAAAAH!!! AMAZING >_< Awesome!!

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SigN-91 [2007-02-19 23:44:56 +0000 UTC]

scharfe konturen und interessante beschreibung ...sieht echt cool aus ...besonders die perspektive sieht stark aus ..und wie schon erwähnt erinnert mich iwie an mittelerde ^^

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yumeyasuke [2007-02-19 22:56:42 +0000 UTC]

WOW...this one is like......amazing..........................................
I'm stunned by ur artistic skills.......

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gilraen-stock [2007-02-18 15:57:12 +0000 UTC]

It makes me fell on the "Middle-Earth"!
Fabulous!

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