The Tree Clan - background concept art

This is the original background concept art for the final Tree Clan painting (mentioned previously in this blog).

Actually, this is several concept art paintings overlaid. The back layer is the “starscape” of major stars and stellar dust, another the trees and bridges, one of the small figures, another of the distant monolithic structures, and finally the smaller stars.

As with much concept art, the human figures not only add a bit more interest to the picture, they also help scale it, giving the viewer and idea of how large the structures in the picture would be. This of course assumes we’re not viewing some miniature manlike create or giants… When working on fantasy or science fiction, the rules of scale can be off the charts.

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Duncan Long is a freelance magazine and book cover artist. His magazine and book cover artwork has appeared on titles from HarperCollins, PS Publishing, Pocket Books, Solomon Press, Asimov Science Fiction Magazine, and many other publishers and self-publishing authors. See more of his artwork at: http://DuncanLong.com/art.html
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