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Wonderfully captivating! The choice of colours and overall concept are truly amazing, and the artist's photomanipulation skills in this piece are flawless! It's incredible to see what somebody can do with just photographs of a forest.

The Guardian Awakens by JoshDykgraaf

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Suggested by Ginryuzaki

The Guardian Awakens

JoshDykgraaf

Published: Oct 9, 2013

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Description

This is my addition to Desktopography 2013 - check it out!: desktopography.net/ (You can download it from here)

The image is a photo-manipulation constructed entirely from photos I shot in a forest in a park near my apartment, I used it as an opportunity to play with new techniques and source material. I made this way back in June this year, before this I hadn't played with kind of source material before on such a scale.

All stock by yours truly.

I've added closeup details on my FB page: www.facebook.com/pages/JoshD-I…;

It's available as a print up to 40" or 1m wide

(That's how frikkin big I made the original file): society6.com/joshdykgraaf/the-…

Edit: Wow! Thanks for the DD

Image size

2560x1440px 1.23 MB

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spystyle

Oct 13, 2013

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First of all, It is a very beautiful piece of art.
I like to admire your skill in PM, your skills in combain photos in a way to create something entirely new is just mind-blowing! Furthermore the fact that you creating your own stock is just admirable. Well done!

Usually you creating monsters and beast, made of steel and machinery.
Your new way of creating thing from natural materials is really refreshing!

The combination on the guardian is really inspiring and beautiful.
The only thing that bothering me is the wings. The edges are thick comparing to the rest of the creature.

In piece there is a scene which create the mix feeling between the powerful and the calm.
The guardian is the powerful one, a dragon with open wings, tight chest and smoke come out of is nose.
In the other hand the background is gentle clean, soft leaf, lightful, white and green tones that makes it calmness and peaceful.
I think that, that mix is what makes the piece such a good one.

This work is really beautiful and great addition to Desktopography.
Well done and keep up the good work!