A Collection of Cool Art: Part 3

Book Magic:

Everbody knows that books are portals to other worlds. This picture just puts it into perspective: this is what happens evertime you open one.

;)

So be careful.

The Beast:

A true Wulf in all it's gory glory. This picture reminds me of Gmork in The Neverending Story - and therefore scares the living shit out of me. It is particularily disturbing that the artist managed to capture the fact that whoever is seeing this creature is probably about to die - if they're lucky. Simply the way it stares at you through the picture *shiver*...

Wolf Mother:

Another rejected image to describe my blog name. I guess this is what I hope to become and not what I am at the moment. For those of you who haven't noticed, the woman's reflection is that of a mother-wolf - an interesting representation. I found it from a Native American Art website.

You Are SO My Bitch: This is Starbuck, played by Katee Sackhoff, from BSG again. This is a sceenshot from one of my favorite episodes called "Unfinished Buisness". I basically just enhanced the color a bit and added text. It is my opinion that the look she's giving defines the text. ;)

Firecloud:

This is something I would imagine could be seen between stormclouds and bright sunlight above. I like this picture for it's sheer elemental component.

Forbidden Road:

I believe this was a wallpaper for a video game too, but I can't recall it's name. The image is eerie and shows a deserted trail with a werewolf parked at the end close to the town. I like how strangely this image is balanced. The werewolf almost doesn't look out of place and, at first glance, it doesn't look like a werewolf at all. But when you look again, it's staring right at you!

Growth:

One of the stranger pieces I've seen, this picture shows a meeting of science and nature in a way I've never seen. Notice that there are no humans in the image. An image of things to come, perhaps? We might never know. I keep it for it's creative, but realistic aspect, but I have no idea who made it.

Mine!:

A minny Smog, perhaps? Another member of the "Cute Baby Dragon Club" that I've collected. The mischief is clearly visible in the baby's body posture and eyes. The use of light is particularily well done in this picture.

A Collection of Cool Art: Part 2

Climbing Atlas: A wallpaper from the video game God of War II: The End Begins. This image depicts the sociopathical hero of the game, Kratos, scaling the titan Atlas and fighting the legions of undead blocking his ascent to the world Atlas holds up. The color is brilliant and the brutality of Kratos' character is most appearent in this picture than in any other ones that I have seen.

Death of Samus: At first, I thought I had found this one on deviant ART transfuse's collection page. This artist has a few full colorful, detailed images of Samus Aran from the Metroid video games, but it seems that I'm mistaken and this is someone else's work. Who ever they are, they have my thanks for creating it - this is my favorite image of Samus to date. It shows how tough it is to save the universe sometimes. Fancy armor doesn't save you all the time, but you live, learn and protect what you can... or you die trying.

Lighting Away: This is a wallpaper of Final Fantasy XIV's main character: Lighting. The image itself it actually a still from one of the in game graphic shots sceen in the first trailer, which you can see here at around the 47 second mark. The sense of movement is just so well captured in this image. It's just so smooth.

"Rancor?!": One of my favorite parts of Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy is the mission where you have to free a group of elders from a slaving outfit and one of them tells you that they should get out of here before the rancor comes. "Rancor?!" You're character exclaims and the best roams around the corner in an attempt to eat you. This image captures that moment pefectly - a lone Jedi Padawan against a huge beast native to Dathomir? Omg! I'm in trouble!

Princess Mononoke in the Moonlight: This is an official Wallpaper for Hayao Miyazaki's Princess Mononoke: my favorite film. It shows the fierce similarity between San and her adoptive wolf-brothers with a dark-light constrast that makes the scene breath-taking.

"Sorry, I falls down!" : Cutest picture of a baby dragon that I have ever seen. So small, so fragile, but protected by the snout of a loving parent as it falls. It warms the heart and tickles my artsy side with detail and color.

Man, Woman; Angel, Beast: This is a striking image of the relationship between man and woman. The woman is depicted as an angel-like figure: serene and tranquil, comforting her conterpart. The man is depicted as ugly and corrupted with wings and mind of metal than of beauty and goodness. I'm not sure if I agree with what this image makes me feel, but the concept is very intrigueging and this image is stupedious in design and lighting.

Ghost Unicorn: The eerie shape of red tattoed unicorn through mists of grey. The entire image is just amazing - it has been on my desktop for sometime now. It almost seems to enbody the myth of the unicorn in a disappearing shadow; bright to those who can see it and mearly a shadow to those who can't.

A Collection of Cool Art: Part 1

I am currently working on a full book review of the Mistborn Trilogy by Brandon Sanderson, but I figured I should probably put something up here in the meantime.

So here are a few of my favorite images that I have collected.

None of them are mine, but I enjoy looking at them.

They are in no particular order.

Wind Okami: Okami is a video game I have never played, but the artwork alone from this game is unique and inspiring - I will have to find it someday. The game follows the mission of Amaterasu, the sun goddess, of her quest to save the world from a dark deamon using the Celestial Brush. Strange, I know, but a cool concept. Throughout her quest, many deities help her. In this image, she is in a form guided by the diety of the Wind.

Dragon Fire: I like the amount of detail in this image. The dragon's design is simple, but well shadowed. The deep red goes well with the beam of fire coming out his mouth and the dark background lights the dragon up in a contrast I don't see very often. I have know idea where I got this one. I think I just searched "dragon" and google images got me this one at somepoint.

Okami Soaring: An other Okami picture. This time in her own form. This picture reminds of my dog - cept the ears aren't big enough. I love the coloring and the style - both make for a powerful presentation in color and shape.

Fantasy Dragon: I find this picture particualrily eerie, but magical at the same time. The ambiant light is superb and the creature in question makes me think of the Owl from The Secret of NIMH - very cool.

Starbuck's Recuiting Bid: Yes. I'm obssesed with BSG (Battlestar Galactica). I am certainly very fond of Katee Sackhoff's character in the new series Captain Kara Thrace, or her viper-pilot call-sign "Starbuck". I found this poster sporting the character's final words of Season 2 ("fight 'em until we can't") on a BSG fansite and imediately fell in love with it.

It would cerainly recruit me into the Colonial Fleet. Wouldn't it do the same for you?

"Those Dang Fireflies": I found this wallpaper on deviantart somewhere and it was posted as my wallpaper for the majority of my exams in university because it embodied all of my emotion at the time: complete and utter misery. The cat's face is priceless and the fact that it's raining is the whipped cream on top. Brilliant design, great color - I love it.

Paint the World: I don't even know where I found this one, but I like the idea regardless. For me, it's implying that you can change the world with art - fill in the blanks in human understanding with beauty from yourself in every stoke of a brush. It's a calm, beautiful image - something that makes me feel better.

White Wolf Spirit: One of the images I could have put on my earlier post about my blog name, but thought it was too calm for what I wanted to exlplain about myself in that text. I found it on a site full of Native American Art. It's a majestic picture that proposes nobility and vigilence of self.