These gods of nature could create tremendous paintings even without any story in it. Just calm and majestic nature. It’s wonderful to be able to catch the eye of the viewer with only the landscape. And in my blockout, I tried to catch this mood with the composition and simple light.

Since the final entry should be represented by a few shots, I decided to concentrate on the main view and make all assets to support it. This helped me to plan the composition of the shot in advance. At first, adding the pipe was an experimental idea, but I liked it. With its curvy shape, the pipe supports the calm atmosphere of the forest and makes the eye follow the direction, showing the result of technogenic abuse of nature, directs from the current moment where oil spills to the future result where the forest dies.

Also, the composition is divided into the left and right parts. The left part with a bright green forest, painted wigwams under the rays of the sun represents life and the union between humans and nature, while the right part with the oil pipe and driftwood represents the doom and negative domination of human over nature and its resources. In this composition, the contrast of meaning is supported by lighting and colors.

Modeling

Nothing special about this, except for I made the objects close to the camera more detailed than those closer to the background and used Substance Painter for the totem texture.