"On the Cliff"

[wallace_trust]

The scene in the Emyn Muil as our hobbit companions try to climb down the cliff.  These passages are some of my favorites because they highlight some fundamental differences in their personalities-- Frodo is being levelheaded and intelligent, while poor Sam is panicky and just wants down!   :)
 

I am satisfied with most everything in this painting except the rope.  Its color, its texture, even its pose, is not accurate at all.  It started life as a very snaky, hard-to-handle model that would not stay where I put it, but I kept it anyway for its detail.  If I had it to do over again, I would just paint it in using a path tracing tool.  

This is the first time I tried to do rain  :)  

 

Comments

[wallace_trust]

Thank you, Suzy! ^_^ I like the rain, too :)

I had Such a battle with that rope. My mistake was to try to render it from a model, rather than just painting it in by hand. The model rope had at least 60 segments which had to be painstakingly posed, and then, when I tried to shift it a little, the whole thing lost its center point and I had to chase it around the scene. Besides the modeling issue, it is supposed to be a slender, magical Elf rope, grey in color, that shimmers in the dark; but to me it looks more like just a plain old Hobbit rope. ^^;