"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  :)  

 

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[wallace_trust]

Thank you very much! It is appreciated! :)

The rain was done using what is called a 'billboard,' which is a transparency placed between the main models and the camera. The sky lighting was something I knew from the outset had to be there in some fashion, because the rest of the scene was going to be pretty dark.

Still, most of my artwork usually consists of just blundering along until I get it halfway right ^_^