Stay away from the water my dear By Roiuky Watch

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so I´ve started up a thing at the new studio where the artists join forces and do a monthly challenge, 3d/animation/2d all together consisting of all sorts of themes to push ourselves to develop outside of work. I figured starting it off this month with monsters and fantastical creatures from nordic folklore/myth was the way to go, so since I´ve jumped on the Artstation challenge of King Arthur too I decided to make my contribution to the studio initiative something very comfortzoney, so the Bäcka horse! I remember being told about it by my mom, we lived on the westcoast of sweden when I was a kid and it´s this old folklore monster much like the Kelpie or Nokken/näcken a water spirit that lures you to get on its back, the back can extend to fit how many people that wishes to climb up, but once up you can´t get off and the horse dives into the nearest deep water and drowns you.

Photobashing and paintover took roughly 5 hours I think, still not happy with the bright almost white light(it should be much more dimmed breaking through the water and the caustic effect was more difficult than I initially thought, so gotta do some studying up on how light breaks through water!^^)

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Published : May 23, 2019