Ascendance
Posted on November 29, 2016, in Fantasy || Pencil, Physical Drawing
“Let go now. Let go, and the earth itself cannot hold you down.”
Made using pencils. I wanted to create a mystical, uplifting piece when I began creating Ascendance. Designing the ascending woman’s regalia was incredibly satisfying. In the beginning, I had planned to give her a more demonic look (Hence the horns), but I actually quite like the softer look that I ended up with. It makes the character feel somewhat like a greek goddess, in my mind.
Since the central focus of the image is the ascending woman, I put her in the center of the image. I also made most of the top of the image sky rather than land, in order to make the painting feel as though it were rising. Even the jagged rock faces on the ground are pointing to the skies, their frail stature outshined by the clouds above. Said clouds are arranged in a fashion that implies horizontal motion, to offset the upward motion implied by the rest of the image.