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Tower of Babelby ~hekatoncheir

Designs & Interfaces / Game Development Art / Game Concepts & Illustrations / Buildings and Environments

Another illustration assignment, though tweaked a little from its original.

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*KEKSE0719 Mar 17, 2013 Professional Digital Artist

cool man!

!bossie-boots Mar 2, 2013 Hobbyist

My word this is amazing

~SimoneMorgan Mar 1, 2013 Student General Artist

My god, this is fantastic. I'd love to do a collab with you and learn your ways~ :<

~KTKruse Mar 1, 2013

Too damn cool. It took me a few seconds to recognize the face in the foreground.

~Tombofsoldier Mar 1, 2013 Hobbyist Photographer

The tower of Babel myth is based on the practice of the ziggurat, a type of large religious structure built around Mesopotamia. They were the biggest structures built, religious temples. Different cities would get into a sort of competition with each other, to see who's could be the biggest and highest. Thus the legend of the tower built to the heavens. No doubt back then a tower eight stories or more high seemed impossibly large compared to the relatively stunted trees and one to two story buildings of the rest of the area.

Good work! Really like the lighting on it.

~Skihaas1 Mar 2, 2013

I wish I could have seen the original, I don't think it's a myth, it explains so very much about our modern understanding of language, dispersal on planet, ect. post flood. People were capable of great engineering marvels, such as the pyramids, even back then. If your interested, go to creation.com for interesting articles on it.

Wonderful painting BTW, close to my mental picture of it

~irshadkarim Mar 1, 2013 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Nice work. I'm particularly fond of the texture of the clouds. Despite their dark and foreboding qualities, they retain a sort of light fluffiness. I'm kind of questioning your decision to actually show the top of the building, though. I understand that it's still under construction, but it stunts the impact of the truly massive structure the tower of babel's supposed to be. I think you've achieved huge, but you're falling a bit short of immense.

~hekatoncheir Mar 9, 2013 Student Digital Artist

yeah I had that debate when I was painting it. And I do agree that when you see the top, it looks smaller (compared to if it was covered by clouds). But it's part of the lore I guess, that since it's supposed to be unfinished, it does fall short of something y'kno?

Also update moar art youuu.

~irshadkarim Mar 9, 2013 Hobbyist Digital Artist

): draw and paint a lot but I raaarely ever do anything remotely finished. So my dA remains bare.

~Ohthehumanityplz Feb 28, 2013 Hobbyist General Artist

Very biblical in it's execution. Well done.

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