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At some point in our lives we must all abandon things that we care fore and are forced to move on to a more suitable land, hoping that we can soon call it home. The people are surrounded by a world strewn with destruction and desolation, perhaps by our own hand or the hand of another, no one could remember or truly understand it for themselves. Many agreed that the reason didn't matter anymore, simply the current situation was less than positive. The lands that once flourished with life and happiness now wilts like a sad and dying plant in the cold winter air. Many wish to stay behind and hope that they could perhaps rebuild and rekindle what they once had. Unfortunately, they will soon find that this is nothing more than a pipe dream cascading the waters of sorrow from its leaking cracks. Soon realizing that the home that they once called their own, they decided to do the only thing left to do: they moved on. Packing all of their remaining belongings and undamaged personal effects, they moved en mass from their dilapidated cities and towns to search for a more viable sanctum and home. No one is completely sure the amount of time that will pass until a new home will be found. Weeks, months, even years could pass. They may never find a new permanent home. All that is known is that once they started this journey, there is nowhere else in this world to return to, there are only obstacles to cross and threats to challenge or retreat from., created by Luminarium member *ChrisCold, presents us with such a situation where a civilization is forced to leave their once thriving society to resort to looking for a more temporary style of life across their destroyed landscape.While this picture is a speed paint, I have to say that there is still so much to take in with its rather sprinted design style. The atmosphere of the image smothers the viewer with a feeling of immersion as heavy as the dark clouds hovering over Earth's scarred face. The chains draped across the foreground add that much more to the destroyed appearance of the world and the strained connections people feel they have to it. Destroyed buildings in the distance carry a rather attractive hazing effect on the background giving the piece a rather nice sense of scale and depth. The gloomy colors run across the sky like blood from a newly opened wound and further reflects the darkened and depressing tone of the composition, an excellent representation of what this world represents. While the detailing is limited in many of the compositional elements, the style in which they are depicted give more than enough artistic personality to attract enough of the attention of the viewer to the piece and really bring out the emotional and atmospheric depth that the image presents. To generate such powerful feeling of isolation and desolation, especially in the form of a speed paint, is a true sign of how much talent and imaginative work that this artist is capable of.As much of the atmospheric elements and strong design backing this has, I still see that if this piece is continued to completion, which I for one would look forward to, there are few things that could be done to this piece that could take it from great to stellar. For one thing, continue the detailing on the background and foreground elements of the composition. Try and build on the overall destruction of the landscape and even add some bonus elements like destroyed transports and vehicles strewn on the landscape or buildings faintly smoldering by flames within. Add a bit more detailing to the characters in the area which could add more to that emotional elements of the piece and make the viewer have that much more of connection to the composition. Perhaps you could even draw in the blurring of wind to the landscape and human subjects to further illustrate the overall destruction and desolation of the planet. Just experiment with what you already built on from this speed paint and try to add in your own personal flair to it and I can guarantee that this piece will soar above many others.Many can only evade their issues and problems for as long as they can before they are eventually consumed by them and dragged down into the dark abyss of isolation and death. What we know is that the only way to stay alive is simply try to move forward and take all that this world has to give you no matter how dark the horizon above you appears to be., shows how you can keep trying to move forward in life no matter what the world around you looks like, it just all depends on how far you want to go. Great work Chris. e.deviantart.net/emoticons/c/c… " width="20" height="20" alt="" title="Clap"/>