Come Away! by novelist
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No AI - This artwork was created entirely by hand or with traditional digital tools.
Description
Inspired (again loosely) by the poem "The Stolen Child" by W. B. Yeats.
"Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand."
I'm still working on my lighting skills with my favorite literature and classic movies to inspire me. Everything here is a work in progress, so, reactions and constructive suggestions are always appreciated and welcome. Is it too dark? Best viewed full size.
Character is Miriam for V4. Free Best of Sparkle brushes by Patslash.
Tools used: Daz, The Gimp, and Artmatic Voyager for the cityscape.
As always, thanks for looking and have a great week. : )
Comments (25)
fantastic image ... love how written works inspire you!
This is not too dark - just right. Particularly because the focal point is a lighted object in the model's hand. This is one of your best ever and really does show wonderful improvements with lighting. Your posing has always been good and occasionally exceptional and you pulled out all the stops here! Well done, Cathy.
Very nice image. Great character and post work! Really well done.
This turned out so great. I like the perspective on the model.
nice work..
Cathy you did a wonderful job on this truly magical image
awesome design ! F
i agree with ebrink about the focus on the lighted object and the brightness is fine. other than that it is hard to find something i dont like because it is so easy to enjoy this scene and to fly away with your faery, up to new unknown world's, away from the gray or at least very familiar world we live in. i like Yeats poem quite a lot and your image gives a good idea about your inspiration, a wonderful vision!
Wonderful image great pose and a superb lighting.....love the lighted object in her hand, excellent done....love this scene.
Beautiful image, Cathy. The composition is flawless and the lighting spot on - I love the magical light of the flower! I'd be interested to see you experiment with motion blur on the wings - enough to suggest movement, but not too much to lose the detail...
Amazing POV and light ! Love it !!
Beautiful image Cathy! Superb pose and pov!
Great scene!!
I admire your dedication to your craft !!! Overall this is lovely and I like the PoV I dont think its too dark...Adding some blue highlight to the side of her head and hair where the flower's light would naturally cast would help combat what your eye thinks might be too dark. Maybe add that same blue cast light in layers and opacities to the palm and forearm.
Wonderful POV and composition!!!Fantastic scene!!
MAGICAL & LOVELY SCENE SPLENDID WORK AS ALWAYS DEAR FRIEND THANK YOU !!!!!
Very cool image, but where's the child that she's spiriting away? Excellent point of view and background. It seems like her hair is blowing the wrong way, but she might be turning in the sky. As far as the lighting, you've done a remarkable job. You might want to play with a pointlight just above the flower. This might give it the effect of actually radiating light from within. You used the sparkle brushes to great effect, by the way. Keep playing!
Where's the child? Good question. My personal interpretation is that it is about all human children (and in my mind of all ages) rather than one. It's a dangerous world out there.
BEAUTIFUL AND MAGIC SCENE....FANTASTIC WORK..!!!!
wow very magical ..excellent !
It feels as though we are with her, inside a story. Very magical work!
quite beautiful, and I like your thought that it's about the human child in all of us. More of your sensitive interpretation of literature, I can't tell you how much I appreciate that. The Yeats is powerful because of how it contrasts the child with the harshness of the world. And the object the woman carries is like a primal crystal that bears revelation or pure light. A good choice I think. The city below really isn't all negative, there's beauty in it as is the case with many cities; but Yeats reminds us that that beauty can have much menace behind it as well. Above all, your flying woman bursts through the image and almost out of the frame (you have her elbow nearly stopping at the frame like she's about to break through it), and the overall feel is of being freed, and of dreams of a place well beyond. More fine work from you Cathy.
The more I see of this series, the more I like the concept of using literary work as your inspiration to create scene. I love the sense of freedom expressed in her pose, and the cool, blue tones of the lighting and composition. Very well done!
Oh Cathy, this is beautiful! I love the translation of the poem to what your mind pictures! I don't think it's too dark either, the only thing I might change is just adding a little more hightlight to the hair where the glowing flower would relfect .. and I wouldn't have even noticed that as there are some highlights, had it not been mentioned above. I think you're lighting is doggone perfect!
Superb fabulous and wonderful realization!