this is my submission to the speedpaint challenge I'll be doing for 2d artist magazine. A tutorial will accompany this in next month's issue.
About 3h30h straight with a few breaks. After work doodle!
The topic was "It was a long way up but they had to continue climbing".
These guys are supposed to be villagers beeing attacked by the lava monsters. Sometimes the lava overflow and the distracted villagers find themselves in some bad situations, fighting for their life.
The cliffs are good, and the poses on the human figures are good. However, the lava monsters are hard to read; before I read the caption, I thought the lava monsters were baskets of flowers, or something like that.
aw man, guess he was trying too hard, climbing this mountain... or perhaps he wasnt trying enough. either way, makes me feel like i dont wanna be in his place, really
For some reason I see this Camus-ish view on Sisyphus here. With the sad nihilistic smiley on the winning side and all. But I'm probably just reading too much into it