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Imaginary Cathedrals, Temples, and Graveyards
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Art of Cathedrals, Temples, and Fanes
Chapels, abbeys, mosques, any religious architecture or icons, including altars, graveyards, or crypts
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sauce page https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YNJVJW8E3U
The Eternal Ruins are an endless labyrinth of ancient mysteries. Children awaken from strange statues and become Wanderers of the ruins.
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from "Project: Black Plague (3)"
yes, this is in some ways a portent of things soon to come to this 'sphere
The original story derived from the novel "ivanhoe", but i push the time to 16 century europe with black plague. This project contains 7 pieces, will update regularly. The overall tone of this project is dark realistic fantasy, so you won't see something over the top. Nevertheless, using 7 pieces to show an ip and world setting is very challenging, so i will focus on the specific events and story telling during that special period. Since population reduce drastically, the church no longer has enough space to bury the dead, they start using the human skeleton as part of the church decoration, can refer to the Sedlec Ossuary bone church.
artist's artstation site || artstation page || deviantart
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an abbot in black wearing a gold chain stands behind a table; in front of an elaborately decorated wall of skulls, other bones and candles; wreathed in cobwebs. in the centre of this wall is a gold cross with a lifelike christ figure
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「神の在不在はさておき、これだけでも大したものですね」
「俺の村では祈りの場そのものも信仰対象だった。神様の姿を知る人間は限られていたし、実際信仰に足る代物だった」
「確かにあれは神の御業といった感じでしたね」
「だからみんな死んだ」
which, google translated, comes out as:
church in ruins
“Aside from the existence or absence of God, this alone is a big deal.”
"In my village, the place of prayer itself was an object of worship. There were only a limited number of people who knew the appearance of God, so it was actually something worthy of belief."
“It certainly felt like the work of God.”
"That's why everyone died."
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time for something a little less grandiose -- a cute little chapel
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ahh, what an imaginative title…
artstation site || artstation page
artist's [dead] website || substack
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fuck it, it's time for some traditional art. also, boy that is a very clean cathedral
::: spoiler full-size version (massive)
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artstation site || artstation page
now i'm not entirely sure that this is technically a cathedral? but architecturally it fits, and i like it
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Participant of the CGTrader Digital Art Competition. https://www.cgtrader.com/
An older painting massively reworked. As always when doing personal projects, I drew inspiration from real places that I visited.
This idea came to me long time ago, during visit of a rather famous medieval town in Czech. Sometimes things you see just stick with you and won't let you sleep until you make something out of them. This was the case.
From the very beginning I wanted to have this calm, meditative, approaching a safe sanctuary feeling. For that reason I chose the central composition that appears symmetric at first but is actually far from it. Both sides are balanced with different shapes making the image stable yet not boring. Choice of lightning and colors was also made with the same purpose in mind
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Yet another personal project that I've just finished. Really enjoyed working on this one. Definitely a fun little challenge!
yes, it is another 3d model; but it's the last one for a while i promise. here are some detail views
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Civilisation: Persia
now, their linktree and deviantart descriptions proclaim that deviantart and ourartcorner are the only official places; but there is an artstation that looks official; but i cannot vouch for it
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This is a challenge that I did with some friends in the discord of adapting the tale "The Masque of the Red Death" by Edgar Allan Poe. I imagined the characters as part of a cult that worships the Mask of the Red Death and performs rituals through the rooms with different colors from the abbey, each representing a different stage of life.
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