Apotheosis - Handpainted Art Nouveau Temple

AnnaHollinrake

Hi all!

I've been working for a little while now on a hand painted art nouveau temple that features paintings hanging on the walls and a big statue (or two). I've taken a lot of reference from Alphonse Mucha and I'm hoping to create his style of paintings in both 3D and 2D. Fingers crossed it all goes to plan! Crits and feedback are more than welcome!

Also my blog can be found here - http://anna-hollinrake.blogspot.co.uk/

Initial concepts -

Central temple area









Icy temple entrance




3D production work so far







Paintings - first of four illustrations

riklopes

sweeeeeeeet stuff! keep posting updates, cant wait to see more progress!

Shiv

that 3rd pic looks really nice, looking forward to it. That statue is going to be a lot of work

AnnaHollinrake

Hey guys! Thanks for the kind comments.

I've been mostly trying to get the temple area right recently. I grabbed a bunch of UDK rocks to block out the scale, as well as get the approach to the final area right. I've been trying to get the scale and atmosphere right. It's all still very messy though.

AnnaHollinrake

A few bits and pieces that I've been working on over the past couple of days -









Comments and crits more than welcome! Not really liking the bottom two images all that much - everything's too sterile in the first and too flowery in the second.

glottis8

I gotta say that some of the details that you have on those pillars don't read as chipped or damaged columns. But more bruised look. This kind of detail usually happens for a reason, some of those just seemed randomly placed. Specially towards the top.

Gannon

You've got some cool ideas and I really like the first couple of illustrations of architecture you have.

Could you show us some wires for some of the models? I'm thinking it's a little wonky based on a few things I'm noticing with the pillars. The wood textures are really cool, finish them up and drop them on what ever they're supposed to go on That (I think) tiling ground texture is REALLY washed out.

I recommend just hammering out one solid piece at a time until you get comfortable with the process and achieve the final look you want. Once you get that, you can start doing passes on everything to help evolve the scene.