The moment before all hell broke loose...

I've been working on this picture off and on for several weeks. It's not quite done, but I'm going on vacation for a week. I may work on it a bit more when I get back... or maybe not...

The picture

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man, u can paint, and its amazing....

a lot different from you other stuff but still great like always... i am jealous of your skills

:eek:

i envision right before all hell broke loose is a land in wanton and destruction, with fissures all over the place. but that's just me and that work is just spectacular. :eek:

i am speachless as always when i see you amazing work.

DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMN

Awesome pictures... i cant wait to see the finished product... and is that guys with the riped up michael jackson glove suppost to be jesus?

The picture is not based on any existing story. What I was trying to do is depict one of those moments that occur between two totally different time events... the calm before and the chaos after.

Roughly... the bot/animal guy is an ambassador type from another world which is dangerous and inherently deceitful. The creature at left bottom and the storm troopers are his guys. The thin guy to the right is the ruler of the place that the ambassador is visiting. He is a mystic and essentially the opposite of the ambassador, a good guy. All the guys in the back on the right side are his entourage.

The Mystic is holding up his hand (at the end of his effete arm) to stop the ambassador from advancing toward him. He has a welcoming expression on his face but is unable to get a sense of and is unsure of this unknown ambassador - with good reason, because the ambassador's storm troopers have just started to decimate the Mystic's posse. The storm troopers are being controlled by the bat-like creature in the very back right.

The creature behind the ambassador is his body guard and similar to the bat-like creature. He is about to encase the ambassador in his kevlar-like wings to protect him. The women at the left have heard the raucous, but haven't yet figure out that it is the sound of violence and death.

That bright thing... I have no idea what it is... some mystical chamber doodad ...

sounds good... good concept to make an image on.... i cant wait to see the finished product... is the finished one going to be bigger or just some more detail?