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Wrong Tunnel

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Sometimes you just head down the wrong tunnel ...

Made for a contest on GIMPtalk.

MyPaint + GIMP in about equal quantities.
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:star::star::star::star-half::star-empty: Overall
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:star::star::star::star-empty::star-empty: Originality
:star::star::star::star-empty::star-empty: Technique
:star::star::star::star::star-empty: Impact

This is an excellent, classic example of a D&D scenario. I think that having the adventurers run away adds a nice comedic element and uniqueness; most pictures of this type would show an heroic stand against great odds.

I particularly like the walls of the tunnel. I have no trouble believing that they were chewed out by that horrible mouth at the end of the tunnel. Similarly, I think the lighting looks very good (for the most part - see below), and I can believe that it's a dark subterranean lair, lit only by a pair of torches.

Perspective on the tunnel and beast looks very good, too. I think this in where things break down a bit with the characters, however. The woman, and the man on the far right of the image, seem to be running into the walls. The woman seems closer to being on a 1-point line, but if she is supposed to be running forward, the perspective and foreshortening of her feet has to be fixed.

The lighting trouble I mentioned above is with the wizard. Base on the position of their feet, it looks like the wizard is a bit in front of his companions, but he looks like he is lit from the side, possibly the side&slightly in front. The way the cape is drawn, it would be throwing most of his body into shadow from any light source in the rear.

His clothes and his carriage are somewhat at odds, as well. I think that if he were running flat out (a sensible thing to be doing) his cape would be floating more, and his hat would probably either be pushed back on his head by the passage of the wind, or the brim would be pushed down. As it stands now, his body language and the fact that he's holding on his hat both say "running for it," but the careful arrangement of his clothing is just too fussy to support it.