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Alex Ruiz
Alex Ruiz
Nationnality: USA
City: Los Angeles
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Thirst For Life
Title: Thirst For Life
Upload date: 2011-04-18
Category: Harmony (digital painting)
Animal(s) : Many!
Tools: Photoshop, Painter
Description:
Here is my final image. I kept adding more and more animals because the more I tightened the image up, the more space was exposed! I hope eve... [All]
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Alex Ruiz
Date:2011-03-11 | Quote | #1
Thirst For Life
I've decided to go for the Harmony category, as it gives me a chance to paint as many of these amazing animals as possible!:)

The concept here is showing animals and humans gathering and drinking water in a common area, having a good ol' time.
Alex Ruiz
Date:2011-03-11 | Quote | #2
Thirst For Life 2
some more definition and lighting
Alex Ruiz
Date:2011-04-18 | Quote | #3
Thirst For Life 3_Linework
Now came the daunting task of making the previous sketch more coherent, and I thought line would be the best way. But the more I cleaned the image up, the more empty it seemed...so I just had to add more animals! As well, I added a world map to their watering hole, as that was fitting for the image...in a sense, they are all literally 'Sharing One Planet!':)
Alex Ruiz
Date:2011-04-18 | Quote | #4
Thirst For Life 4-Basic Color
Now that I had the line work done, I added a basic color wash over the image, keeping it very low saturation so that I could build from this point.
Alex Ruiz
Date:2011-04-18 | Quote | #5
Thirst For Life 5
Now that I had my basic color scheme, it was time to add lighting. I knew I wanted this image to be somewhat of a fantasy piece, and now I had a chance to really jump into that...with many light sources! Which also equals more problems:) Because I had to very strong competing lights in the sky( essentially the sun AND moon out at the same time!)
Alex Ruiz
Date:2011-04-18 | Quote | #6
Thirst For Life 6
From this point on, it was all about detail...and lot's and lot's of it! So I used textures where I could( such as the leopards spots, grass,space images,) and many custom brushes and shapes.