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Adelaide's Discovery

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Okay. So here is the last of 7 finished illustrations for my Senior Project from MCAD, aka my novel in progress.

Here we go.

This illustration took a lot of courage for me to post, for a few different reasons. As always, my backgrounds are kinda weird and rushed, and it features a very unusual sort of composition, and also includes my female main character, Adelaide, and her brother, Ulrich. OH MY GOD HUMANS! :omg:
I finished this illustration last. I was working on probably an hour of sleep per every 30 some hours awake. The semester nearly killed me and I was having stabbing headaches and random muscle spasms. I also was working two part time jobs, and my friends were dealing with some tough school issues... ok, I won't go into any more details, don't pity me, I put myself into this situation and I took care of it. :XD:

In this scene, Adelaide has already discovered Nharath wounded, and despite all fear, feels a compassion for the giant, fearsome beast. She runs to get her brother, Ulrich (background) to help her move him to a safer location. He fears the worst and worries about what his sister has gotten into this time, but never does he expect it to involve a pallanoph!

I tried to make this composition "genius", by allowing us to feel the same way as Ulrich (and Adelaide) does, by allowing the viewer to first wonder, what is Adelaide pointing at, looking at? Is that an arrow? What is it stuck in- OH MY GOD! A pallanoph!? Yep, that's right, Nharath is lying unconscious at the bottom of the frame, lying in a hollow filled with leaves just beyond a large tree, almost out of sight. Tell me, did I pull this off? Granted, it's almost impossible to go back into this piece, but in the future I tend to redo most of these painting, to update them, so to speak ;)

One more note. Some of the best pallanoph fur I have ever painted. :love:

HAVE AT IT!!!! :D
(I mean critiques and comments, of course! :P )

Characters, species, designs, etc. (c) April Schumacher
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Of course you pulled it off. :D The fur is amazing, once again! So much detail, but without drawing attention to itself, just like real fur. :aww: