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Some more Wacom practice. I added in some efx in PS afterwards. Kind dig how it came out. Just kinda though :)

This was for a thread over at Concept Art entitled, "SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL IN THE MIDST OF THE EXPANSIVE UGLY."

The concept I did here is a bit cliche, but I'm still working on coming up with more original thought.

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:star::star::star::star-half::star-empty: Overall
:star::star::star::star-half::star-empty: Vision
:star::star::star::star::star-empty: Originality
:star::star::star::star::star-empty: Technique
:star::star::star::star-half::star-empty: Impact

You've captured the 'beauty' part well enough, but I'm not convinced by the 'expansive ugly'. It's creepy, certainly, but not so unappealing as to offset the butterfly.

It's also not very expansive. The tree creature sits alone with the butterfly, each of them having almost equal weight and impact in the image. Given that, a change of title or artist's comment could easily change the perception of the piece as a whole. Say this piece is about star crossed romance and it's almost more believable. But place these two within a vast, desolate forest of identical spider-like tree creatures and I think your goal would be achieved.